<p>Ok so I have a question. I just finished my junior year, and I need to take bio next year to graduate (I haven't taken it yet) and I'm wondering whether taking Honors bio instead of AP bio would adversely effect my application.</p>
<p>I'm an IB Diploma Canidate, my classes this year were
Eng HL
History of the Americas HL
Design Tech HL
Psych SL
Math SL
Spanish SL
TOK</p>
<p>The rest of the classes I'm taking next year are
Eng HL
History of the Americas HL
Design Tech HL
Spanish SL (It takes us 2 years)
AP Calc
Health (Required to graduate)</p>
<p>My courseload seems pretty hard already, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>wouldnt taking AP bio be too big of a step to take without having some background knowledge about the subject? i know in my school we take freshman biology and then have the option to take AP biology later on as an upperclassman.</p>
<p>Yeah, the problem is I took Honors Physics freshman year instead of Bio. There's no school rule keeping me out of AP, I'm actually scheduled for it at the moment, I havn't talked to the teacher about whether it would be possible to take it with no base.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't actually have a base, you can take a Biology sophomore year, and it can be AP, or normal biology. Most our students do well on the APs even without the previous study of biology.</p>
<p>Yeah but I would probably be the only student doing this in my school. I don't know how the teacher teaches it. I'm waiting for an email from my counselor with the teacher's email.</p>
<p>I checked with my counselor, he said people have done AP Bio at out school without anything before it. My question is, how much would taking Honors hurt me when I apply?</p>