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I attended "normal" public schools until high school where I now attend Maggie Walker Governor's school as does all the members of our team. Our school draws the best and the brightests from the surrounding school disctricts based on their test scores, teacher reccomendations, and previous community involvement. While here we are able to take classes that are all on honors or above levels, myself and the majority of my classmates also dual enroll with VCU which is 6 blocks away so teachers from the university will come to our school and teach for part of the day. We also have a large number of AP classes available to students throughout their 4 years at the school. While our school focuses mostly on History and Languages, requiring 4 years of one language and 2 years of another there are still a number of other classes available.

It has given me the oppurtunity to be enrolled in FIRST since my home district does not have any FIRST programs, also I have been able to take many classes that I would not be able to take at my home school.

Personally I like being in classes with people that actually care, there is still all the normal demographics as any other high school, there is just many people here that have something to contribute.

This year I am a Junior and here are some of the courses that I have taken that have really been beneficial over what was available to me here and not at my home school:

Freshman year: Intro to Programming Languages(Dual Enrollment with VCU)

Junior Year: eBusiness(Dual w/ VCU), AP US History, Photography and Design(Dual w/VCU), 1st Semester Calculus(Dual w/ VCU), AP Env Science
Senior Year(planned): AP Chemistry, Discrete Math(Dual w/ VCU), AP US Government


Hope some of my experience has helped