David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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0n the Strain of senior year way relieved at graduation Seniors at any high school are the focus of attention. All other students are considered the Underclassmen. Being a senior isn't easy, they had to struggle through six years of greuling elementary work and then two more years of early adolescence in junior high. Most recently they had to undergo three years of brain squeezing high school to get where they are. Twelfth graders are all re- quired to take American government. There are other advanced courses like Calculus, advanced Biology or Chemistry, Latin 6 and Advanced place- ment English that seniors can take to get themselves better prepared for college. There are many challenging classes of- fered for students who want to get all they can out of their high school experience. Many of these students take Govern- ment during the summer so they can spend more of their time on the specialty courses. These classes are useful in college, and the few serious seniors that come along are the ones who take them. Honors classes can make a substantial difference to those who take it seriously, and those people will be the ones with the G.P.A.'s exceeding 100. The weighted grades up to the year 1987 are as follows: A+:115, A:111, A-:106, B+:102, B:98, B-:93, C+:89, C:85, C-:8O. These added points are sometimes life-savers for a lot of seniors. G.P.A. isn't all colleges look for when examining a student 160 f Seniors for admission to their college. Seniors have to send in their S.A.T. scores CScholastic App- titude Testj first, but if the stu- dent's G.P.A. puts himlher in the top quarter of the class the S.A.T. doesn't pull as much weight when applying to dif- ferent universities. College tuition may be a ma- jor problem for seniors of they wish to go to college here.The gracious legislature just recently approved a tuition rate hike. Currently it cost 354.00 per course hour, but soon in the 1986-87 school year it goes up to 38.00, and in 1987-88 it will be 814.00 Every year after that it goes up two dollars till 1989-90, at that time time will stay at 320.00 a course hour for college students in Texas. Out of state students are paying 5640.00 an hour, and it's going up. Seniors used to be exempt from their second semester finals if they had an 85 average in each of their classes. Now they have to take a one hour final while all the underclassmen are taking two hour finals. Some seniors are allowed to take seven classes if they need it to graduate, and you can bet money that that is one popular pg-ivilege taken well advantage o . All these privileges and hassles seniors have to deal with every year are all part of ex- periencing the high-light of high school, graduation. They earned the right to throw up their caps. by Terry Linn --if L' 'Q fx Md .:i,. 121415 -S4 cv ..

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