i’m registering for classes for next year and i cant decide what i should take
im definitely taking ap calc ab, ap spanish, ap gov., economics, and college english and for the other class its either oceanography and astronomy or ap euro
i know ap euro would look better but i want an easier schedule, plus a science would probably be good
how much better would it look on a college app to have ap euro than oceanography/astronomy?
<p>What is it you are interested in? What are you likely to want to study in college?</p>
<p>Also, where are you planning on applying (different places have different expectations)?</p>
<p>i really like ap euro, and i hate science, but its a hard class in the ammount of material you have to learn and the way you have to learn to write, honestly just take what intrests you</p>
<p>well i want to major in economics something like that and history does interest me, but it would be kinda nice to have a slack class
plus a couple of the places i want to apply to, such as georgia tech and virginia tech, strongly recommend 4 years of science</p>
<p>you should check if GT and VaTech recommend 4 years of LAB science (the UC's do), and then find out if Astronomy counts as a lab science, just to make sure.</p>
<p>Here's the problem:</p>
<p>You wanna beef up your college app with AP classes so it makes you look good and still dedicated even though it's senior year. Now the downside is that because it's senior year, you'll probably get some degree of senioritis. Then, when as you have been accepted into one of your colleges, the senioritis really kickes in but you still have those AP classes on your schedule so you can't slack because colleges keep tabs on your grades. :'(</p>
<p>IMO, oceanography and astronomy sound like joke classes and that's what colleges will think too. Have you taken AP Bio/Chem/Physics already?</p>
<p>I'm takin AP Physics right now and i really don't want to take another serious science class</p>
<p>Then I guess you answered your own question. It's hard to have classes that are easy yet still look good to collegs; you have to sacrifice something. I'm a second semester senior but I have the hardest courseload I've never had in high school. My friends are laying around for hours each day, but I don't really feel like I'm missing out on all that vegging out. At least for me, I think classes are a lot more enjoyable when they officially stop mattering for college (of course that's not completely true...you can't get an awful grade) so maybe you'll find that working hard isn't so bad.</p>
<p>maverick64, I believe that you probably should have tried to squeeze those sciences in before your senior year. But I have a solution that my help you:
How do you feel about your AP Physics class right now, do you see yourself scoring a five on it, if so then I think you could get by with astron or ocea, also what other science classes have you taken and do your SAT scores show that you are good at science. These can all "cover-up" (is that hyphenated) the fact that you didn't do everything that was recommended. Good luck :)</p>
<p>Of the three REAL ap science courses (bio/chem/physics), how do they rank in terms of difficulty? Biology is mindless memorization, physics is number-crunching (and is MUCH easier after completion of calculus and when taken concurrently with MC Calc/linear Algebra), and Chem is a combination of them both but to a lesser degree. I found ap chem the easiest because of this, but so many people complain about it...</p>
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Of the three REAL ap science courses (bio/chem/physics), how do they rank in terms of difficulty? Biology is mindless memorization, physics is number-crunching (and is MUCH easier after completion of calculus and when taken concurrently with MC Calc/linear Algebra), and Chem is a combination of them both but to a lesser degree. I found ap chem the easiest because of this, but so many people complain about it...
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<p>While your assessment of biology seems to be spot on, I can't help but disagree on the physics one. A monkey can crunch numbers, but same monkey can't do physics. The core of physics would mostly be logic, and determing what equations you need to apply, and how - not crunching the equations out.</p>
<p>Well...ok point taken. I am taking it concurrently with MV Calc and Linear Algebra. Did anyone take it concurrently with Calc BC? How did that go? It seems like it would be a pain if u haven't completed a year of calculus.</p>
<p>I'm taking it concurrently with BC Calc right now. My AP Physics class is geared towards preparing us for the Physics B exam, however, so calculus doesn't play much of a role in the class (every now and then it comes in handy, but the difference is pretty negligible). </p>
<p>Nonetheless, from what I've seen, the calculus needed for the Physics C exam isn't even that difficult. Finishing Calc 2 (or an entire year of BC) seems like more than enough to do the Physics C exam. I'd be self-studying Physics C myself if I had the motivation, but alas, I'm lazy as hell.</p>