<p>Currently, I'm a sophomore. In freshman year, my schedule was as follows:</p>
<p>AP US History
Band
Pre-Calculus
Health/P.E
Chemistry
Lit and Comp 10
Spanish 2</p>
<p>As a sophomore, my schedule is as follows:</p>
<p>Spanish 3
AP Calculus AB
AP Government
AP Psychology
AP Biology
Health/P.E.
AP English Language</p>
<p>I'm wondering what I should take Junior year. Here is my planned schedule, with 7 APs, and taking Spanish 4 this summer:</p>
<p>AP Economics
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
AP English Literature
AP Environmental Science
AP European History
AP Music Theory</p>
<p>I got all As first semester as a sophomore, and it is currently second semester. I was wondering if the jump to 7 APs is far to much for a junior to handle, because I had some doubts. On the other hand, I got all As taking 5 APs as a sophomore, so I really have no idea. My other option would be to take Spanish 4 in the place of AP Music Theory as a Junior, and just take AP Music theory in Senior Year, along with AP Stats, AP Physics, Writing 221, etc.</p>
<p>I am also planning to take the SAT and ACT as a junior.</p>
<p>Yes it is too much to handle. I know this because I know you are personally incapable of taking many APs. You crack under pressure and have a terrible work ethic and get by solely on luck. You are a terrible student and should seriously take an easier schedule. </p>
<p>You think people on the internet know you better than you do?</p>
<p>You are taking a risk. Junior year is important - it is important to have a serious schedule but also to do well. I would drop AP Enviro and AP Music. Five is more than enough. Spanish during summer or school year, which ever you prefer. The 5 remaining are serious APs. </p>
<p>Are you doing both Econs? </p>
<p>Don’t overdo senior year, either. Applications and college visits will take more time than you could possibly imagine.</p>
<p>After taking English Lang and Lit, we have a class called Writing 221 (taught by a college professor at the school), so the credit is transferable to the local state school.</p>
<p>I’m worried about Spanish Lang and Lit. At first, I was considering taking Spanish 4 this summer and doing Spanish 5 (AP Spanish Lang) in Junior year, but people at my school say that AP Spanish is REALLY hard.</p>
<p>Thank you for the advice! Does anyone know how difficult AP Music theory is?</p>
<p>So whats your proposed senior year schedule? Make sure you have enough Ap’s left for senior year. It might be better to hold off one of those junior year ap’s for senior year.</p>
<p>My potential senior schedule after taking 7 APs in Junior year:</p>
<p>AP Stats
AP Physics
Writing 221
College-level History
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Health Careers (offers 4 credits at the local community college)</p>
<p>If I took 6 APs in junior year instead of 7, I would probably switch AP music theory to senior year.</p>
<p>I think it is too much. What you should do is ask someone who is in the classes now how difficult each class is. You should take a rigorous course load, but make sure you still do well. Typically Calc BC and Chem are two difficult courses.</p>
<p>Raghavtrip: You asked how hard AP Music Theory is…how much music background do you have? If none or almost none…Music Theory will be very hard. On the other hand if you’ve been playing one or more instruments seriously for a good number of years…you probably will not find it as difficult. 4 or 5 AP courses as a junior would be plenty. No college is expecting a junior to have 7 AP courses. What else could you possibly have time for with so many AP courses? Colleges are interested in people who have some interest in life besides just taking AP courses.</p>
<p>I have played around 4 instruments seriously throughout the course of my life, with two primary instruments. I’m not too good at like the circle of fifths and whatnot though, but I prize myself on ear.</p>
<p>Ahhh, yeah, that’s another thing I was worried about. Extracurriculars. Since freshman year, I’ve been doing Speech and debate, MUN, Varsity Tennis, an internship at the local state college, research on parkinson’s, Pre-Med Association, and robotics. I really don’t want to drop any of those things, since I really enjoy all of them.</p>
<p>Thank you for the advice! Right now, I’m leaning towards dropping a few APs, based on all of this.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but you’re going to fail. There will be no avoiding it, especially with the contorted schedule you are building. It has lack of success written all over it, along with college manwhore. </p>
<p>Enviro will be a boring hellhole.
Music Theory will be a slaughter to your GPA.
Lit will be rape.
BC will just frustrate you.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to those people that say you can. You can’t.</p>
<p>my advice to you would be to do this: take AP music theory and AP environ or AP econ and switch those to senior yr so your junior yr schedule would be like this and your senior one would be like this:
junior yr:
ap chem
ap calc bc
ap euro
ap lit
ap enviro/econ </p>
<p>senior year:
ap physics
ap stats
writing 221
ap music theory
ap enviro/econ
college-level history</p>
<p>5 ap’s is still really good for junior year. and those ap’s are generally the tougher ones. try and go for straight A’s in them. Don’t forget you need time to prepare for SAt/ACT and SAT II’s. If you feel like you’ll have extra time then either spend time preparing for admissions tests (very important) or dedicate yourself to your EC’s more. (Ec’s do matter for top colleges which I assume your aiming for) Overall your schedule will (definitely should be) be most rigorous.</p>
<p>Also you could take either and ap enviro/econ junior yr (5 total aps), then go ap spanish senior yr(colleges like to see ap foreign language) along with ap econ and drop college history for a total of 5 ap’s. Trust me 16 ap’s over a 4 yr high school career will be more than enough.</p>
<p>Look, I don’t know whether you can or you can’t–but why would you WANT to???</p>
<p>I mean, 5 APs as a junior looks perfectly rigorous. Aren’t there things you’d rather be doing with your time? If you’re really worried, ask your counselor what kind of schedule he’ll mark as “most rigorous” in his recommendation to colleges. And what’s normal at your school for junior year? How many APs did the Val take? That should give you a pretty accurate gauge.</p>
<p>Raghavtrip, I think you should lay off the extensive AP schedule.</p>
<p>From the looks of it, you’re already going to be top 1% of your class, no problem, to take it to the next step, summer courses and a full AP schedule, is pushing it.
Keep in mind that an ideal GPA is not all that matters. High school shouldn’t be solely for you to spruce up your college apps.</p>
<p>Think of high school as not just a direct transition step to college, but a part of your life that you should make the most out of.</p>
<p>When you grow up, you don’t want your kids to find out you were a college whore, you want them to know that you were the “cool” dad, and not the stereotypical academically-driven indian. Actually come to think of it, it may actually be too late… Anyway, don’t push yourself beyond the brink. Collegewhoring can result in severe symptoms like mass peer disapproval and insomnia. But no seriously, have some fun, take a class you think is interesting, and not just because you want another AP to fill your schedule.</p>
<p>Take Spanish 4 next year, and Spanish 5 senior year. If you are willing to take 7 APs and pretty much anything that’s remaining senior year, then you shouldn’t have to fear Spanish.</p>
<p>Take AP Euro senior year, like a regular person.
Save some spaces in your junior schedule for an easy class, or maybe even LA or ER. Heck, take religious seminar, just don’t let the prospects of college and a beautiful transcript drive you to the point of insanity.</p>
<p>Holy ■■■, this website continues to astonish me haha at my high school you’re only allowed 1 AP in your sophomore year (Psychology) and that’s IF you get permission from the teacher + your counselor, only 3 your junior year and 4 your senior year. We’re also on the block schedule so we only get 4 class/semester & AP Physics, Calc BC, Bio, US History and Chem are all year hahah</p>
<p>so to me, naturally it seems like a TON of APs</p>
<p>You know yourself the best. If you’ve done well with 5 APs and still have free time, you’ll probably be able to handle 7 APs. But are the benefits of 7 APs really worth the work? </p>
<p>At my school, NOT taking 7 weighted courses (IB or AP) by junior year and getting a 4.0 UW is death to your class rank. Of course, there is some grade inflation, but we also happen to have one of the strongest and most extensive math/sci departments in the country. It’s doable, and there are many people who can score 5’s on all 7+ AP exams every year. If you can manage 5, then 7 will just be a small step up.</p>