<p>I have a question about my next year schedule. Should I drop band and take a higher level course. I am not sure on whether I should drop out of band. How much of an advantage is band in college admissions? If I drop out of band I would take either computer science AP or Statistics AP. Also, I have won a state award for band, and would dropping out of band make the award worthless? THANKS</p>
<p>Do you enjoy band? It seems, judging from your award, that you're pretty involved with playing your instrument. If you really enjoy it, keep on with it! Also, what year are you in high school? If you're going to be a senior, dropping out of band might be fine, but if you're only going to be a sophomore or junior and you might go on to win even more awards and do a lot of things with your instrument, by all means do that. Playing an instrument isn't necessarily less impressive than AP Computer Science.</p>
<p>I am going to be a sophomore. Also, I made TAMS as a freshman. BTW if you dont know what TAMS is here is the website: <a href="http://www.tams.unt.edu/%5B/url%5D">www.tams.unt.edu/</a>. TAMS is basically a residential program where a high school student earns two years of high school and college credit at the same time. It is pretty cool. I am pretty sure that I will attend the program, but not a year early. Most people make TAMS as sophomores, but I made it a year early. Like I said I will most probably not attend it a year early. However, if I drop band in my sophomore year, I can still practice on my own and then take alto saxophone (the instrument that I play) classes at TAMS. COnsequently, I was thinking about taking either Statistics AP or Computer Science AP because I won't be able to take them at TAMS. Also, at our school AP classes get a higher GPA, so I will be able to increase my ranking. There is no ranking at TAMS, so colleges would probably look at my home high school's ranking. My current ranking is about 20/1000 students. I need to get it to about 4/1000 by end of sophomore year. Now what are your opinions?</p>