AP Biology and AP Chemistry?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm currently a freshman in high school registering for classes for my sophomore year. By custom, most students at my school take AP Biology sophomore year, and I want to take it with my grade level. I've heard that it is a lot of memorization and book work which seems to be right up my alley (by the way, the school offers no prerequisites for this class, such as an Honors Biology course).</p>

<p>However, my school is allowing sophomores next year to take AP Chemistry as an elective. I've already completed an Honors Chemistry course this year, which I breezed through without any trouble. Also, by taking AP Chem with AP Bio next year, I would have more time to focus on the AP courses I plan on taking junior and senior year, which is my main reason for wanting to do so. </p>

<p>Can anybody help me out with this decision? Has anyone done this themselves? Any help would be appreciated.</p>

<p>Additional info: I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA, have already taken one AP class (Human Geography), and am at the top of my class.</p>

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<li><p>Do it.</p></li>
<li><p>I like your HS.</p></li>
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<li><p>Do it.</p></li>
<li><p>I like your HS as well. </p></li>
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<p>AP Chem + AP Physics = hell. I’d imagine Bio + Chem would be similar.</p>

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<p>Well… I was going to take IB Chem HL + IB Bio HL until I was told that I was going to die. A slow, painful death.</p>

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<p>my high school= fail compared to yours. DO IT!!</p>

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<p>AP Chem is slowly killing me.
and I wouldn’t want to put that pain on anyone :wink:
don’t do that to yourself as a soph! haha enjoy yourself before junior/senior year really start to suck!</p>

<p>haha at my school you can’t even take ap chem/bio/physics until at least junior year</p>

<p>but I took chem honors soph and ap chem senior sooo I guess I would’ve appreciated having taken them one after another. I’ve also appreciated having taken physics and precalc before ap chem…although you can probably get by without having taken them.</p>

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<p>I’m taking both right now as a sophomore and it’s not bad</p>

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<p>iambenk, what are your grades in both classes? And are you taking any other higher level honors of AP classes? Thanks.</p>

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<p>You need to be ready to commit, but im confident that it can be done.</p>

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<p>I’m doing it as a junior, but I took the honors version of both last year, and I think I would be at a serious disadvantage if I hadn’t have.</p>

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<p>I’m taking AP chem, AP Bio and Anatomy this year. It’s killer especially chem. I have a 91 in the class but its a lot of work and stress.</p>