<p>Hi, thank you for reading this thread and replying, it means a lot.</p>
<p>Okay, so right now is course selection time for Junior year and I'm a little worried about the APs to take. My school offers around 10 APs (public MA high school, pretty good).</p>
<p>Right now, my schedule would be this:
Dramatic Lit
Latin 4
AP Chemistry (year-long course)
AP European History
Anthropology/Sociology (counts as history credit)
Honors Calculus</p>
<p>There are more, but they are generic electives (health, gym, etc.)</p>
<p>Now here is my concern: I am in an accelerated Precalculus class right now which is extremely difficult, and I am NOT on the course of taking an AP Calculus during high school. I would only be taking Honors level (Level 1), but not AB or BC. Is this okay?? My dream school is Cornell A&S, and I am a little crushed-- this is the first class I have not received an A or A- in...</p>
<p>HOWEVER, this type of schedule allows me to take AP Statistics senior year as well as AP English, AP Bio, and possibly a fourth AP senior year.</p>
<p>So overall I will be taking around 6/10 APs offered at my school, BUT not an AP Calculus. Do colleges really care about an AP Calculus class, or do they purely look at the rigorousness of classes taken?</p>
<p>THANKS again, so much. Sorry if I sound like I'm worrying over nothing, but of course, this is a nerve-wracking time!</p>
<p>It really depends on what major you are thinking about.</p>
<p>I am thinking a major in Biology or a science. Would this make a difference? I would like to become a medical scientist or doctor in the distant future.</p>
<p>I’m not an expert on what colleges like and don’t like, but all I can suggest is to ask people who took AP Calculus this year AT YOUR SCHOOL. I really struggled in PreCalculus too, I had to push for a B, and I’m pretty good at math. AP Calculus AB has been much easier to me. We finished the whole curriculum in late March, and we’ve just been studying for the AP Exam since. To be honest, the whole year kind of just felt like a review of PreCalc, but in more detail. </p>
<p>All I’m saying is just don’t be afraid of taking Calculus. It sounds a lot scarier than it really is. I used to have to go to tutoring every week with PreCalc, and I haven’t gone once this year. I do have a different teacher, but I honestly don’t think that’s what’s made it easier, because last year my PreCalc teacher was also the BC Calc teacher, and he had a 100% pass rate for them, so I don’t doubt his teaching abilities.</p>
<p>i am taking AP classes and getting C’s in them and I am a Junior .
Is it better for me to take Honors classes Next year instead of AP
to get a higher GPA?</p>
<p>^make your own thread</p>
<p>OP, 21NFK94 is right, you should ask around your school. and no, it’s isn’t a <em>huge</em> deal not to take AP Calculus. you should go onto the cornell website to see what requirements and reccomendations they have for applying.</p>
<p>however, I’m going to tell you something people on CC have said A LOT. don’t keep you heart set 100% on any university. you have to be open to at least some more colleges where you’ld be OK attending. you’re a sophomore, so you still have time, but remember to keep an open mind. </p>
<p>the ivies and top schools like them, especially, are a crap shoot. lots of excellent students get rejected from them. and even for most colleges in general, sometimes it just comes between whether your (for example) an oboe player or hockey star. some years, the college might need someone who plays oboe, while another year they might need someone who’s an athlete.</p>