Additional CC course?

Applying to College
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<p>My D can only get 3 AP courses due to scheduling conflicts. She wants to major in history or Russian. Her schedule:</p>

<p>AP English
AP French
AP Psych
Physics (not AP)
Calculus (not AP)
PE (required)
Senior project - will be an interdisciplinary project with history/art/computers for a local historical society (community service).
EC - cross-country (JV).
Good paying part-time job (2-8 hours / week)</p>

<p>She is planning to apply to little-ivy and seven-sister schools. Her only other AP was US history, in which she got an A- and a 5, 780 SAT II. Here SAT's were 2220, but her weighted GPA is about 4 out of 5, and unweighted about 3.4, and she is in the top 25% at a pretty decent Massachusetts high school. Naviance shows a good match for the women's colleges, and some of the little ivies.</p>

<p>She wants to add a CC course in gov., which would mean dropping either cross-country or the senior project, or both. I am suggesting an on-line AP course, but that would not be included in her GPA. I don't think the CC course would be included either.</p>

<p>She is good at independent study, and spent her free time this summer reading Russian literature, also taking a non-credit philosophy course at a summer high school program at an ivy league school.</p>

<p>From an admissions perspective, will the CC course be better than an on-line AP and make up for dropping cross country or the senior project? In my opinion, can she should forgo both the on-line AP and CC course, and just focus on the senior project and getting more As than Bs.</p>

<p>She doesn't handle stress well, so this decision is very difficult for her.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>The independent project would be better for her. It demonstrates initiative, and will allow her to pursue a specific interest. Right now she is taking three college-level courses (the AP courses) in addition to two classes that are tough even if they aren’t AP. That is plenty. Anything else will exhaust her both mentally and physically.</p>

<p>She is on track for her target institutions.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback. Actually, I mistakenly put down Calculus, she decided to do Statistics (non AP). I’m now getting consensus from her that the senior project should stay, but she may drop cross-county and take gov at the CC, but will keep her winter sport. The CC gov course would be less time than cross-country, and she would then have time for her other EC. She was pretty exhausted most of the time last spring, even without a sport, so I agree with you!</p>