I have achieved my high GPA through taking hard classes and also have had to take several classes as an independent study to fit them into my schedule. These classes include Accounting, Physics, Entrepreneurship, College Marketing, and College Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel. When I
In the past years at Masterman, I have only received 2 Bs on my final grade. As a result of my grades, I was given the opportunity to progress a year up in math studies. Since the school’s curriculum already sets their students a year ahead, this places me in a 10th grade math level a.k.a. Algebra II. When you look at my PSSA percentiles, you will glady notice that I am in the 99 percentile for both English and Math.
The first school I attended my freshman year was at Glen High school. Upon my first arrival, I met my counselor at the school who would determine the courses I will take. I was rather nervous yet optimistic when discussing my future with her, as she spoke with me she took a look at my transcript from Mahone Middle school. To my surprise, she recommended me to take honor roll for Biology, Math 2, World History, and English I.
For example, this semester I am taking Honors World History, Chorus 2, and AP Chemistry. Though I struggle in some of these courses, I spend countless nights studying to maintain a 4.1 G.P.A. Science is a very prestigious passion of mine, and I hope to strive in such research. I participate in the Youth Achievers Committee Science Fair every year, and
To make a significant change in the world, countless hours of preparation, of work, and proactive cooperation with others are crucial for success. I partake in few extra-curricular activities, but I have dedicated years of my life to them all. On a regular week, I have to balance French club and National French Honor Society secretary duties, community service for National Honor Society, and additional choir practice for at least two hours after school each week (while sometimes performing community service with the choir as well). I want to become an engineer; so I take AP classes that are useful and interest me because I will need to know advanced math and science concepts in college. All of these extra-curricular activities and academics will become even more relevant when it is time for me to advance my future goals of pursuing a higher education and making significant efforts to aid the world by designing helpful technology with medical applications.
While taking AP Physics Mechanics, I had a teacher who taught strategically, leaving out critical information that would be on an assessment so he could teach it after people fail. After bringing most of the class down to a 50 percent average, I began to panic. I couldn’t believe that I was so behind; therefore, I decided to meet with my teacher, not asking for pity but for tips on how to prepare for these seemingly impossible tests. He confessed he is full of tricks, so I developed a coping method. I perceived the class as a game where I jump over every hurdle to win.
Throughout middle school and my first 2 years in high school, I’ve gotten mainly As in my classes with an occasional B here and there. So in my junior year of high school, when I heard that I can take more than 1 AP course, I immediately wanted to challenge myself. I registered for 4 AP courses along with orchestra, and spanish on top of my extracurriculars. “Are you trying to kill yourself?” is what all my friends asked when I told them about my plan.
To do this, I had to understand the situation clearly and apprehend the truths of its consequences. In order to skip my junior year of high school, I needed an English and a math credit. I decided to do this by taking summer classes at UCA. The situation could have gone two ways; I could have not gotten the credit I needed, or I could receive credit for them and graduate high school a year early. I achieved insight through Elbow’s “methodological belief,” which resulted in my believing one outcome over the other.
• For Pre-Calc, it was very comparable to trigonometry and it dealt with angle measure, trigonometric identities, trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions and equations, polar coordinates and applications • Applied Calculus was a course that dealt with derivatives, integrals, limits, exponential and logarithmic functions and applications. Prerequisites was Pre-Calc. • Intro to Statistics was a course that I took in the summer that dealt with probability, tests of hypotheses, confidence intervals, contingency tables, histograms and much more. At Normandale I had to take College Algebra to take before I could take of any these courses because it was a prerequisite to Pre-Calc and Intro to Statistics. Overall, I took all the Mathematics courses needed for my degree at Normandale, so it would be something to be worried about when I transferred to North Dakota State
While I was thoroughly committed to the extracurricular activities, I have decided that my academic career was the best way to focus my abilities in order to reach my goal. Doing well in all of my IB classes has been my number one priority. With education being my number one priority, I strive to maintain a high grade point average. At the beginning of the junior year, I struggled with finding a manageable balance between all my activities. My GPA dropped due to my struggles in the beginning of the year.
One of the classes I was most excited for this school year was AP Physics. I had not taken a physics class since my freshman year, and I was extremely excited to begin doing physics at a higher level knowing that I had completed calculus. On the first day of class my excitement was proven warranted. Started the class, with an exciting competition to see what we had retained from our previous physics classes. The challenge was to roll a small metal ball off of a table and through a hole that is exactly the same size as the ball, but you only had one try.
During the spring 2016 semester I enrolled in physics II, organic chemistry II, and biochemistry, while also being a student researcher and participating in extracurricular activities. The combination of all of this left me feeling a little overwhelmed and stressed, to say the least, but I found a way to balance it all and still maintain good grades. I owe my ability to endure that semester to my ambition and the supportive community at Spelman. It was ambition that helped me through this difficult semester. My strong desire to learn the necessary material and have a satisfactory grade helped me by allowing me to expend all my possible resources to achieve the outcome I wanted.
It is July of this year, 2015, I am riding a charter bus from Stark State College in North Canton,Ohio to Pearl’s dinner in Chicago, Illinois. I am with this program called Upward Bound Math Science, which I had spent all summer with program. We make it to our destination, no problem. See this isn’t the challenge I face this is a day before the really challenge occurs. So that day we went to Wheaton College, which I left bored and barely informed about the school.
Doing math, science, social studies, and English before
Reminiscing back to my freshman year of high school, I decided to challenge myself by taking my first AP course, Human Geography. I, along with a few other budding freshman took the course with ripened upperclassmen. I was petrified of the tempo of the class because I was used to being in classes with other newbies like myself. I began to feel myself getting lost and disengaged in the class, not participating to my fullest ability because I thought, “You’re smart Jordan; you know you can do this,” all I had to do were some simple flash cards but I did not even want to put any effort into doing it. Yet as the school year went on, I lost faith in myself because I was surrounded by students who were just as smart as I was and experienced students
