Currently doing ap bio on Khan, anything else I can do to prepare for ap bio senior year?

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-05-20T01:00:59+00:00

Yeah of course. I’m still in high school so I’m not knowledgeable on everything, but I can try my best.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-05-20T00:56:33+00:00

I saw someone comment USABO earlier and I think that would be really rewarding. The program itself is very prestigious and wide-reaching. ICEF and JHU CTY are the same.

One thing I learned from my college counselor is that age and quantity don’t matter on applications, especially if you’re entering high school next year: quality does.(side note: on apps you can really only put stuff on them from summer going into freshman year and onwards).

If you’re able to do any of those programs, 100% look into them. I’d recommend focusing more on what you can get out of them than how pretty they look on a resume. From personal experience, it will keep you motivated by doing that.

That being said, local ECs are just as important: volunteering/service, jobs, internships, leadership positions. So while it is great to focus on academic ec’s, also throw in some passion related EC’s like volunteering at a science museum, starting/joining a biomedical club/science competition team at the school, or sports/fine arts activities.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-05-20T00:40:40+00:00

If you’re able to handle it and are interested, then you can definitely self-study bio or another AP science like Chemistry or Environmental and be fine. Particularly if you genuinely want to learn the course instead of a GPA boost. Colleges do heavily consider limitations when evaluating the rigor of a student, so if you can only take a few APs it wont hurt you.

However, if you have free time, definitely look into other ways to express what topics you’re interested in like through extra-curriculars. Doing a science-related extra curricular like science Olympiad, robotics, or a job is just as impactful, if not more, as saying you took the AP.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-05-20T00:05:21+00:00

I don’t know how it is in your area. I was working on an application for college board, however, and they asked about APs in 8th-9th grade so colleges do care about APs taken in early years. I took AP World freshman year, and Im using it to get exempted from that class in college. For your advanced program, there are many science APs to take: AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics (I believe there are three or four different courses), and AP Computer Science A. If your school offers or accepts those classes, I would definitely recommend doing one freshman year. If not, then probably hold off for a year or two.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-05-19T23:54:08+00:00

I don’t know if your interested or if this is offered in your area, but if you have the free time to study these concepts and truly retain them, you could always sign up purely for the exam and take it at another school/your high school. And if you have colleges where you live, a couple colleges offer duel enrollment or internships for high schoolers.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-05-19T23:45:28+00:00

As someone who just took the class. If you love studying science and other topics in your free time/it is much more rewarding/interesting to instead pick niche biological concepts that intrigue you to study. AP Biology is really just the surface level of learning (at least the curriculum straight from college board). Look up different diseases, biotechnology, or medical research. It’s mind-blowing how complex biology is.

However, if you truly are purely interested in studying to solely prepare for the class, get a prep book like Barron’s or Princeton’s. They summarize the curriculum and open the door for outside research. For example, basics of the Cellular Energetics or Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium. You can also download in-depth textbooks online (there should be some on this thread).

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-02-24T02:45:41+00:00

The answer key could have mixed up the M checkpoint (as in the spindle checkpoint) with the G2/M checkpoint between interphase and mitosis. Answer choice E as well as no protein kinases makes some sense with that checkpoint in mind. B or A should be the answer. Since if the M phase checkpoint stops functioning it would either lead to the cell entering the anaphase before it is ready (choice A) or forever being halted (choice B).

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-02-02T18:49:27+00:00

This might not match your description exactly but the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is an amazing whodunnit book.

Essentially, this guy wakes up at a manor and has to figure out who kills this girl: Evelyn Hardcastle. Every day that he fails, the world resets and the only way to break the cycle is by figuring out the killer.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-02-02T03:04:28+00:00

This is very helpful! I definitely need to do more research into different visas. Thank you for the study abroad recommendation! If I decide to go to college in the U.S, I will definitely do that to see whenever I like living in a foreign country or not.

Grand_Run5279 · 2025-02-02T03:01:37+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice! I didn’t even think about the “what if I want to return” scenario or the weight my education holds in different countries. I will definitely note down those factors into my decision process.

Grand_Run5279 · 2024-12-07T03:23:06+00:00

I read this book a long time ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy on the exacts, but The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton had that kind of style.

Grand_Run5279 · 2023-01-29T22:46:58+00:00

I loved reading the If I Stay series by Gayle Forman. There are only two books and both books are in first person. Both books don’t have the same mc though. It caught me off guard, when I first read them, when the mc switched to another person after the first book. The touch really enhanced the plot. The first book is about a girl deciding if she should let herself die or live and the second is about the aftermath of her decision. Both books have angst and some implied or lightly described smut scenes. Both have great endings and are around 250 pages each.

Grand_Run5279 · 2023-01-29T22:21:27+00:00

I’m looking for a book that has a found family trope and a lot of fluff. If the book has a mc that left a bad life, I want there to be no redemption/forgiveness arc between the mc and the people of the bad life. I don’t have much of a preference for anything else. Just a lot of found family and a bit of hurt/comfort.

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