User blog:Aquamarinesandopals/Understanding Ever After

A.K.A. This school is confusing and I take great pleasure in trying to figure out how it works.

I wrote a very similar thing to this on my tumblr a while ago, but I figured it'd be useful to post up here too! Whilst it is true I'm reading the books, haven taken the EAH quizzes several times and have watched all the webisodes, some of this information may be wrong and, if that is the case, you're welcome to comment and help me improve this list!

Just to be clear, some of the information here is from the books. I've tried to point out when this information is and (in the actual list of classes) I've marked it with a !. If it is not marked with !, I haven't mentioned it to be from a quiz and you don't remember it being in a webisode, it's probably from a diary or profile.

How the hex does this school work? I'm glad you asked.
This part is completely unnecessary to picking out classes for your OC, but I figured some background info on how the school actually works might be helpful.

The Basics
Ever After High is a boarding school currently (and for the foreseeable future) headmastered by the Brothers Grimm. It is one of the many schools of its kind.

Most students begin attendance in first year and leave in fourth year but it's likely students can come into the year at any point. (As seen with the likes of Poppy in Poppy the Roybel).

Students find out information like their roommate and their school counselor in first year. Usually, this will stay the same until a pupil leaves the school, but it isn't unheard of for students to change roommates in exceptional circumstances (Like Apple and Raven in !The Storybook of Legends and Raven's Tale/Apple's Tale)

The latest webisodes tell us that school starts in the 9th month (September - The Legacy Orchard) and continue until at least the 6th month (June - Tri-Castle-On). Presumably June is their last month and they July and August off for summer vacation.

This is when the school traditions get a bit unusual.

The only two years we know a lot about so far are 2nd and 3rd year (which, so far, have been the focus of the books and webisodes), which seem to be the busiest years for someone attending Ever After High. In a confusing turn of events, Legacy Year (the year you pledge to fulfill your destiny) is second year, rather than the more logical 1st or 4th year.

Even weirder, Ever After High students spend most of their 3rd year making a yearbook and then planting it to turn into a year book tree. Told you. Weird. This is something seniors would usually do but, considering it follows Legacy Year, 3rd year makes sense in this case. One student is usually the editor and is usually the person in charge of the yearbook, but it seems like everyone lends a helping hand.

This leaves the yearly timetable looking like this:

 * 1st Year/Freshman Year: Unknown. This year likely focuses on making friends and learning about your fairytale/your destiny.
 * 2nd Year/Sophomore Year: Legacy Year. This year is, so far, the biggest and busiest year in canon. The year is packed with events. The year is kicked off with Legacy Day before going into fullswing with a big BookBall game and Homecoming.
 * 3rd Year/Junior Year: Yearbook Year. Another big year. The year is mainly focused on creating a year book to put in the Legacy Orchard. The school year closes after the yearbook has been planted and the school has hosted its Tri-Castle-On.
 * 4th Year/Senior Year: Unknown.

So how does this work?
Honestly, it doesn't. The system appears to be a mess and it's not something that's made very clear in canon. Nevertheless, this is what I've figured out.

Unlike your roommate and your counselor, classes seem to change every year (! The Storybook of Legends) and seem dependent on what your destiny is. If you haven't got a destiny you get the luxury of picking your subjects. These subjects will be used to shape your destiny (Poppy the Roybel). [Note: In, once again, a weird and confusing turn of events, the Ever After High Roomie Quiz implies that everyone gets to pick their subjects, which completely contradicts with !The Storybook of Legends Furthermore, Apple is seen taking some of Raven's classes in Class Confusion. These are likely down to a) cross-canon inconsistencies and/or b) exceptional circumstances.]

The Royal or Rebel quiz tells us that there are 6 classes in a day - one of them is always Grimmnastics. This leaves five classes in the day that are dedicated to subjects relevant to destiny.

From the way the results are laid out on the quiz, it seems likely to me that a class schedule would look like this, with each class lasting for an hour or so:

Lesson 1 | Lesson 2 | Break | Lesson 3 | Lesson 4 | Lunch | Lesson 5 | Lesson 6

List of Classes
Here we are! What you likely came here for. This is a list of canon classes in alphabetical order.
 * Advanced Allusions and Cross-Cultural Reference !
 * Advanced Wooing (I'd headcanon this as an extension of Wooing 101)
 * Anger Magicment !
 * Applebatics ! (Sounds like Gymnastics, so I'd headcanon this as a lesson you might get within Grimmnastics.)
 * Arts and Crafts
 * Beast Training and Care
 * Castle Design ! (Though it's from the books it can be seen on the endcard for some of the webisodes)
 * Chemythstry
 * Cooking Class-ic
 * Creative Storytelling
 * Crownculus
 * Damsel-In-Distressing
 * Dance Class-ic
 * Debate
 * Dragon Slaying
 * Environmental Magic
 * Experimental Fairy Magic !
 * Geografairy
 * General Villainy
 * Grimmnastics (Canonly includes Swamp Swimming and Swimclass, though I'd also include Applebatics and Track and Shield)
 * Heroics 101 !
 * Hero Training (This seems like it'd be a practical version of Heroics 101)
 * Hexonomics ('Hex' implies bad magic, so this seems like it'd be the 'evil' version of Magicology)
 * History of Evil Spells !
 * [The] History of Tall Tales
 * Home Economoyths !
 * Home Evilnomics
 * Kingdom Management
 * Kingdom Mis-Management !
 * Magicology
 * Muse-ic Class
 * Mythology
 * Poison Fruit Theory !
 * Princess Design
 * Riddling !
 * Science and Sorcery
 * Spells, Hexes and Evil Witchery
 * Storytelling 101
 * Throne Economics
 * Track and Shield ! (Once again, this just seems like a sport you might do in Grimmnastics. It's clearly a pun on Track and Field.)
 * Witchness Management
 * Woodshop
 * Wooing 101

Extra Curricular Activities
Once again, this is only a list of canon clubs.
 * Art Appreciation Club
 * Book Club
 * Bookball Team
 * Charming Charity Club
 * Cheerhexing Squad
 * Chess Club
 * Dance Class (Though it has class in the name this is explicitly said to be a club in one of the quizzes)
 * [The] Enchanted Forest Club
 * Glee Club (Happi-glee Ever Afters, according to Cedar)
 * MirrorNet Broadcast Club
 * Muse-ic Lessons (Separate from Muse-ic Class, likely a one on one lesson between a student learning an instrument and a teacher.)
 * Royal Student Council
 * Thronecoming Planning Committee

Trivia

 * There is no uniform, but students are provided winter outfits by the school.
 * Though not officially school grounds, students are free to go in and out of the village of Book End.
 * "How does the school get all this funding?!" It's likely a private school that you have to pay to attend.