Am i on the right track?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm new to this site and am a freshman in high school. I have my four years old high school planned out and was wondering if I am on the right track to get to a competitive college. Yes, I know that colleges look for more than just classes, but if I did some great ECs, kept up my GPA and did well on the SAT, would these classes help?</p>

<p>9th </p>

<p>Health and Safety
PE 9
College Prep English 9
Algebra 2
Honors Precalculus
College Prep Biology
Spanish 1
Geography and World Cultures</p>

<p>10th</p>

<p>PE 10
Honors English 10
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry
AP Human Geography
Spanish 2
Spanish 3
AP European History</p>

<p>11th</p>

<p>AP English Language and Composition
AP Calculus AB
Physiology
AP Physics B
Spanish 4
AP US History
AP Spanish
AP Art History</p>

<p>12th</p>

<p>AP Literature/Composition 12
AP Calculus BC (two semesters)
AP Government
(the other half of each day I am interning in an ROP program called Health Careers)</p>

<p>If it helps, my goal as of now is to do something in the field of medicine</p>

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<p>13 AP’s, nah bro you need at least 14 + MultiVariableCalc and College Physics.</p>

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<p>I would take Calc AB soph year and BC jr year. Save stats for Senior year.</p>

<p>And to the original question…</p>

<p>it’s a good schedule. But there are too many intangibles and unpredictables that happen over the course of 4 years. Wait a bit, then reevaluate.</p>

<p>Bit = 3 years.</p>

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<p>No. AP classes are only preferred by McDonalds</p>

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<p>MIThopeful16- Thanks. But my high school requires that I plan all four years as a freshman</p>

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<p>I agree with MIThopeful- AP Calculus looks way better than AP stats. It would look great to take AB your sophomore year. If your schools allows it, maybe you could skip to BC your sophomore year. Other than that, your schedule looks great. If you can get A’s and 5 through all those AP classes, you’re halfway into an Ivy League.</p>

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<p>puggly123- Thanks so much for the advice. I think I will do that.</p>

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<p>definitely start out with AP CAlc. thats what I did. Then I took AP Stats the next year because my school didn’t have ap calc bc. it was kind of a shame but ap stats was the easiest math class I’d ever had, and I scored a 5 on the AP test.</p>

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<p>thanks speedsolver</p>

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<p>Yes, your schedule looks very strong.</p>

<p>I agree that it would be preferable to do AB sophomore year, BC junior, then Multivariate, Linear, and DiffEQ senior year, rather than the math sequence you have proposed. However, what you have proposed is adequate for any school. </p>

<p>If you do that, you might as well take AP Physics C if that’s available. If not and you have the option of dual-enrolling AND plan on majoring in something in the sciences/engineering (for premed I don’t recommend engineering, but you could do sciences), dual-enroll. If you don’t plan on one of those majors, stick with whatever Physics your high school has. </p>

<p>Some other options you might have if you can dual-enroll…</p>

<p>As you go on, if you decide you want to major in Science, dual-enrolling and taking Organic Chemistry would be far preferable to some of those non math/sci APs. </p>

<p>And if AP Biology is an option, drop one of those unrelated APs in favor of it.</p>

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<p>QuertyKey- Thank you for the detailed advice. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, my school does not offer Multivariate, Linear and DiffEQ or AP Biology or AP Physics C.</p>

<p>I’m not that familiar with dual enrollment, I have to say. Does the college involved have to be the one I end up going to?</p>

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<p>^When I suggested Multivariate, Linear, and DiffEq I was figuring those had to be dual-enrollment classes as well.</p>

<p>And no, you can dual-enroll at any college, and still apply to go to anywhere. Most people just dual-enroll at some community college near them.</p>

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<p>I don’t think this is the right forum to post your schedule, but it seems decent.</p>

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<p>QuertyKey- OK I’'ll ask my counselor about that. Does it have to be a college near me? I live by Sacramento- would I be able to dual-enroll with Stanford?</p>

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<p>You’re such a slacker. You’re never gonna get anywhere in life unless you learn the value of hard work. You are, in fact, on the WRONG track.</p>

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<p>I revised your schedule into a more ideal one. Assuming the BS classes like PE/Health are required and unavoidable.</p>

<p>9th </p>

<p>Health and Safety
PE 9
College Prep English 9
Honors Precalculus
AP Biology
Spanish 1
AP Human Geography</p>

<p>10th</p>

<p>PE 10
AP Lang
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
AP Micro/Macro Economics
Spanish 3
AP European History</p>

<p>11th</p>

<p>AP Literature
Multivariable Calculus
Linear Algebra/Differential Equations
College Physiology
AP Physics C
College Spanish 2
AP US History
AP Art History</p>

<p>12th</p>

<p>College Organic Chemistry
Real Analysis
College Cell Biology/similar level biology class
College Statistics
College Biochemistry
AP Government
(the other half of each day I am interning in an ROP program called Health Careers)</p>

<p>If you live in Sacramento, it would be one hell of a commute each day to Stanford.</p>

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<p>Ilikeyou- Thanks, but some of those classes are not offered by my school.</p>

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<p>So you like bio and vball?</p>

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<p>yeah. Also I have another question. I really need to take AP Biology but my high school doesnt offer it. What should I do?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure if the community college nearest me offers advanced biology for high schoolers</p>