<p>Hi, I am a rising senior looking to apply ED to Tufts.
My school somewhat screwed me over, and scheduled AP Calculus AB at the same time as AP Environmental Science. This is the first year that my school is offering AP Enviro Sci. They were thinking about it last year but didn't get enough people to enroll, so the peace club at my school (of which I am the president) put on a campaign with petitions and posters and culminating with a meeting with the VP of Curriculum to make sure that it wouldn't be a flop this year as well. Thus...I really want/need to take AP Enviro. Sci after working so hard to make sure it would exist!
However...I don't feel great about dropping the math. I've done honors for three years so would it look ridiculous to go from tough to none? I tried to work out an independent study deal, but the only teacher for the class is the head football coach and his loyalties belong to the field, not the classroom :(
Also, I have a blank fifth period (and tennis is 6th). Would it be outrageous for me to enroll in Italian or Spanish I? I'm really interested in languages (hope to continue French and also learn Arabic at Tufts) and I would like to expand my knowledge of other culture...plus, there are no advanced (AP or honors) classes offered at my school after 4th period (crazy!). The other alternative is Journalism. I'm really interested in that as well. Which would look better on my transcript..the first year of a new foreign language (currently enrolled in French IV, too) or journalism?
i need to let me counselor know ASAP!</p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>A new foreign language would look better. Journalism I looks like a joke to most.</p>
<p>Can you take APCalc at a community college after school or something? If not, I'd suggest APCalc. I know you have an obligation to APES, but IMO APCalc looks so much better. You need some sort of Calculus.</p>
<p>Take AP calculus....</p>
<p>although you fought to have AP Enviro. Sci doesn't mean that you have to take the class. Even if you don't benefit from the change, others will.</p>
<p>oh wow, i definately left out a very imp. detail. i was going to drop the calc for now ( i can't take it 1st sem. at CC...overscheduled to the max) but when tennis is over I can take it 2nd semester in the evenings. When I fill out my apps, they ask me which classes I am taking 2nd sem. as well, correct? Even for ED? If I get in, I should still take the math, right? And then i suppose my transcript from CC would just be sent with my final high school one, too. Does this seem feasible? Would I merely explain (perhaps in the additional info box of the common app) my scheduling issues?
It's so frustrating to have to take more math when i clearly want to pursue humanities. Screw college admissions standards! i will be sad to drop the class I wanted the most, but i've worked so hard thus far..i don't want a lack of a math class, for crying out loud, to be the determining factor. i'd rather it be, like, a moody adcom or something...that is, something out of my control!</p>
<p>Calc, no question. Take Enviro at Tufts, it will likely be a much better class since it is not new.</p>
<p>If you do not take AP Calc, you will seriously screw over your chances at the upper tier schools (if say you get deferred by Tufts and apply to some Ivies). </p>
<p>On the other hand, very few people take AP Environmental Sciences -_-;.</p>