u/Karleney

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Expensive Taste: DMG dealt by 3-cost characters and lower is changed to 80% of the original DMG, and DMG dealt by 4-cost characters or higher is changed to 105% of the original DMG.

Cheap Taste: DMG dealt by 3-cost characters and lower is changed to 105% of the original DMG, and DMG dealt by 4-cost characters or higher is changed to 80% of the original DMG.

I’ve never seen anyone talk about the benefits certain non-school-related hobbies can directly have on a student’s academic performance. So let’s have a little discussion.

Example: video games that require lots of memorization can greatly increase memorization for school

AP classes at my school get 10 points added to the raw grade, so that is reflected in these grades. The max is 100 but with the 10 it’s 110.

AP Research: 110

Game Design: 100

AP Stats: 106

AP Lang: 106

AP Calc BC: 102

AP Psych: 110

Average: 105.67

Final high school grade average: 98.42

I didn’t make this an actual AMA because those have a duration, but maybe I should have. Oh well.

Ok so this is a lot of reading. Sorry. I provided a tldr.

TL;DR: Fat ugly level -1 chud who hasn’t gone to school, gone outside, or ever made a real life friend and daydreamed about love/crushes suddenly must go to high school at age 15 and LOCK IN. Now I am a level 100 tryhard with lots of friends that glowed up and I have someone to call mine.

Unique experiences, you ask? Like what?
- I was homeschooled from 1st to 4th grade, but my parents didn’t teach me much, so… not-schooled?
- In 4th grade my parents put me into online school (this was before covid, about 2017).
- Obviously, in online school, I cheated and never attended classes. And I was damn fucking good at it. I had straight-A’s, honor roll, signed up for honors classes, skipped a grade in math and social studies, took computer science courses, took high school credit courses in 8th grade. All while cheating and not learning JACK. I am a freaking god at googling answers, lemme tell you. My GPA was 4.0, and it didn’t go higher than that.
- What did I do all day? Obviously I played video games on the computer and went on the internet, watched YouTube, etc. Oh also my parents gave me an iPad when I was 7. So I’m an iPad kid. My parents also never let me go outside, ever down the block by myself.
- This is to say, I had no friends or social experience. But I yearned and daydreamed for friends.
- I was also fat and ugly and had lots of acne
- My parents got divorced when I was at the beginning of 10th grade, and the judge mandated that me and my siblings had to go to actual in-person school (why? GREAT QUESTION idk either).
- So imagine being in 10th grade knowing NOTHING. And I was in Algebra II too…
- And also, I had 40s in 3 classes, like I entered the in-person school and was greeted with those grades. it’s a long story I am willing to tell. I pulled them all up to mid 80s. Destroyed my 4.0 and I’m still mad af about it.
- ???

Why I might have good advice
- Now I’m a graduating senior. I think I’m above average, so maybe average people may have something to gain from me? Grades, looks, teachers, friends, girls, boys, hobbies, mental health… I got tips for most things, I think.
- 4.185 GPA (school doesn’t do unweighted, so it’s weighted). Avg numerical grade is like 98. Avg grade in senior year has been like… 105 (school gives 10 pts for APs)
- top 10% in a class of 900 (and this school, it’s public, but it’s tryhard land)
- 11 APs: 6 in junior year (four 5s, two 4s), 5 in senior year (awaiting scores)
- 1500 SAT (730 RW, 770 math)
- accepted to a college with a <30% acceptance rate
- I have a long term relationship (bf of 2.5 years) and that seems to be something people struggle with. I also have prior relationship exp.
- I haven’t done this since I got in a relationship but before my bf and I started dating I would be given numbers, asked for my number, and could cold ask people for their numbers. This is for the shy people who can’t confess to their crush and are scared of rejection.
- i also have experience rejecting and being rejected.
- my teachers love me, it’s great.
- I have lots of friends.
- I became less fat (lost 20-30 lbs; lost 30, purposefully gained 10 back), less ugly (?), less pimply.

Ok thanks for reading, please ask away :>

Now that I’m at the end of my senior year, I’m gonna rank the 11 APs I took by difficulty and usefulness (if I would recommend it).

I wish I took more, but I didn’t have the opportunity to. I was homeschooled/online schooled until 10th grade, and in 10th, the school I’m at didn’t let me enroll straight into APs. So all of these I took in 11th and 12th.

11th: Physics I, US Gov, Macroecon, CSA, Precalc, Seminar
12th: Research, BC, Lang, Stats, Psych

This is the difficulty ranking to get a 5. I can also further explain if anyone asks. I also mean a combination of the exam and class.

For *myself* I consider anything lower than a 5 failure.

I don’t suggest beating yourself up if you got a 3 or 4 or though, since 5s don’t do anything unless you need a 5 for the credit. Otherwise it’s just flexing/bragging rights. Your time and focus is better spent on doing things you like rather than caring about an exam grade. It’s whatever.

Anyways here is the ranking:

1. Seminar. It requires teamwork and public speaking skills, and I’m bad with both. Made me wanna die. Lol. I was also new to the whole AP thing, and my writing was mediocre. I got a 4.
   - Would I recommend it? Well, I recommend AP Research only if you have absolutely no other class that’s better. So by proxy, that applies to Seminar. No credit.

2. Physics I. Another piece of hell in my junior year / another first AP. I was also not particularly good at math. I got a 4 and had a natural low 80 in the class.
   - Would I recommend? ABSOLUTELY.

For the rest I either don’t know or got 5s. However I think (hope) I got 5s on all cuz I locked tf in.

3. Research. Don’t know my score yet, but coming up with a good question, choosing and creating a well thought out and detailed replicable method, actually properly performing the method, synthesis and conversation of sources, ensuring flawless formatting/citations, actually creating new/original knowledge, actually making the paper well-written — all that together is difficult (especially because the entire paper is graded 1-5 holistically).
   - Would I recommend? Only if you have literally nothing better to do (class wise). It gives the opportunity for the capstone (which does nothing) and also no credit.

4. Calc BC. I think I’ll get a low 5. I am not particularly proficient at math (finished with a 93~ both semesters). Not much to say, it’s not an easy class but not the hardest thing ever.
   - Would I recommend? YES. However if you really don’t do well with math… maybe take AB.

5. Stats. I think I’ll get a 5. Before taking it, I’ve heard people say it’s easy, but it requires a good bit of precision (if you don’t include a word in your conclusion, like you forget to say “typically” or “predicted”, you lose a point). So it can be deceptively hard though it seems simple. I think the precision required can sometimes make it “harder” or more complicated than BC.
   - Would I recommend? YES. Everyone should take it. It’ll teach you useful stuff for the real world.

6. English Lang. The exam was easy af. The class was deadass harder than Calc (my teacher doesn’t believe in computers… everything must he handwritten IN CLASS so you had to finish in the period). Other than that, reading comprehension is a useful skill, and learning how to annotate as you read, and write well is great. Very useful.
   - 10/10 would recommend. However, my teacher spent a lot of time teaching us useful skills for life on top of the Lang curriculum so maybe “normal” AP Lang classes are worse?

7. CSA. I found it easy personally (got a 5), but most people I know find it difficult so it’s up here. If coding is unintuitive to you it’s probably very hard. I’ve even heard friends claim it’s harder than BC and that they hated it…
   - Would I recommend? If you’re going into a computer-science-y related job. Or have nothing better to do and want an AP AND coding isn’t your worst nightmare.

8. Macro. I also found this one easy. Got a 5. Just know how to do the graphs, do some practice MCQ and FRQ and grade your own FRQs using CollegeBoard’s rubric
   - Would I recommend? I think economics is a required HS class in the US, so yeah.

9. Psych. I think I got 2 wrong on the MCQ this year and my FRQs were really good. I had a natural 100 in the class both semesters. Psych as a subject really plays to my strengths: I knew a decent bit of the stuff already (Freud, Pavlov, Big5, MBTI, already into psych). I also have an insane (semantic) memory I guess. I just don’t forget trivia such as vocab. The only part that might be hard is that sometimes questions are confusing, and the EBQs you need to know certain concepts well and be creative with crafting an argument.
   - Would I recommend? If you have nothing better to do. It’s not difficult.

10. Gov. I got a 5. You can learn this in a month or less. Just know all the court cases and documents, and the core concepts/functions with congress, separation of powers, etc.
    - Would I recommend? I lowk forgot everything, but I do remember thinking every American should take it when I was in the class.

11. Precalc. I got a 5. I found it easy as af and don’t find it AP levels of difficulty. I thought Spanish II was harder (but I suck with foreign language). However if someone finds math completely unintuitive, it might be hard. Many of my classmates didn’t excel.
    - Would I recommend? I would not recommend wasting money on this exam. It doesn’t give credit and it’s a high school class. However if it’s better than normal precalculus at your school I recommend taking the class — my school’s AP Precalc class goes into things not on the exam to ensure the students are prepared for Calc AB or BC.

That’s all. This is very long. Sorry if I took up lots of your time lol.

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