Hi,
I’m currently a sophomore in high school. We are required to select our courses now, and I’m having trouble deciding between AP Chem and AP Physics 1. Most of my friends are doing AP Chem, whereas I have heard AP Physics is more useful for my future(Software Engineering). AP Chem is taught by a phenomenal teacher, and the Physics teacher is amazing too. The problem is that I can’t decide which class best suits me. I am pretty good at math, plus I can grasp theories fairly well. I just don’t know which course to take. Help!
Which will you find more useful. If you already took a nonAP Chem but not any physics, seems like you 'd benefit more from physics. If you’ve taken neither, why not just take Chem junior year and physic senior year?
Why not take both classes in junior and senior years? Both will be useful for your future CS or engineering major.
I’ve had full seven-period schedules both this year and freshman year. I have six periods next year, but I don’t want to take a 0 period again. Not only that, but in senior year it’s the same problem. I’m leaning more towards Physics for the time being because I want to take AP Physics C in senior year. Even with all that taken into consideration, I’m overloaded junior and senior year because that’s two fairly difficult science classes crammed into one seven-period schedule(I would have the resolve to take a seven period schedule again, I just want to know which class is more useful in regard to Software Engineering. Then, I would focus in-depth upon that subject.)
If you had to choose one, go for AP Physics 1 and then AP Physics C, since most CS / Software Engineering majors have to take 2-3 semesters of college physics, but they may or may not have to take college chemistry.
Ok, thanks for the help! I was going to go that route, but I didn’t know the specifics about Lab Sciences in college. 
Based on all of my friends who are into computers, we all find physics loads more fun than Chemistry and all took AP Physics 1 over Chem.
Additionally, AP Physics 1 paves the wave for an easy year in AP Physics C as 1/3 of the course is spent reviewing Physics 1 and adding in integrals which will be trivial if you understood Physics 1 fairly well.