<p>“she took Chem in the 8th grade and would not be a student taking back to back Chem Honors and AP Chem. I would not want to chance a H.S. GPA killer because to the 3 year gap in chemistry. In college the chips fall where they may, but she will already be admitted.” </p>
<p>My suggestion is to not play the GPA game. If you think she is a strong enough student to survive a rigorous college engineering program, don’t sweat AP Chem. An added bonus it may help her refine ideas on college major… ie chem eng or not. </p>
<p>My daughter took the same sequence as Parentof2014grad, AP chem was easy for kid #2, not as much work as she had feared, but AP Physics B was painful, the guy didn’t know how to teach. She did get A but I don’t think she had a deep understand (or even like) for Physics, which was really a shame because Physics is really useful in life.</p>
<p>Update: She has dropped the H.S. Engineering/tech from the curriculum, and is starting Physics Honors in sophomore year with a goal toward Physics C as a senior.</p>