Yes, at least for you at a personal level. At a certain point, colleges won’t care whether you did 4 or 12 DE’s. Only do all this extra work if you want to do it, not if you’re doing it for colleges.
You listed a wide range of classes in terms of subject - don’t be afraid to focus on a particular area you’re interested in. That will be helpful in admissions, where colleges these days want to see adequate breadth, but care much more about depth. If you are truly interested in all of those subjects, absolutely do them. It’s great to have as broad of a range as you listed if it’s truly so. Just do them for you, not colleges or anyone else.
You seem to be doing plenty academically for any college - keep it up, but focus on yourself and things outside of school as well. Don’t forget to enjoy being a kid and all
I’m actually not doing everything else as a DE. I’m going to focus on classes related to my career choice.Question, though: there’s this environmental science DE class at my school, like it’s already formally established and you don’t have to go off campus or anything, but you get college credit, so would it be worth taking even though it’s not really related to my major? Also, I wonder in terms of course rigor because if I didn;t take it, technically that would not be my school’s most rigorous course load.
From what I know, AP CS Principles (at my HS and other HS in our district) is a complete joke. There really is no coding involved whatsoever and the students who are generally more “ambitious” and aim for more rigorous course loads take AP CSA instead. Essentially, AP CS Principles is writing a whole lot of reflections on computer terms and the “coding” (it seriously isn’t real coding) is in a language that practically is never used in the real computer science world anyways.
If you are looking for rigor/ what looks best, I’m sure colleges are aware that AP CS Principles is really not a challenging course. If you want a very easy and BS class, take AP CS Principles for the GPA padder. Otherwise, I highly recommend AP CS A, even though it could be quite difficult.
The average student should not be self-studying APs for the purpose of college admissions. Colleges don’t really take them into account for admissions…one reason being many students don’t take the AP tests until after they are admitted.
However, if you need to get college credits very cheaply because of economic issues OR you want the ability to double major and want many credits going in AND you have the ability to study AND do well in your HS courses that colleges actually care about AND do ECs…then go ahead.
I would only reccommend the non-labby types…Psychology and Macro/Micro.
Yeah since I’ve made this post I’ve decided not to self-study anything besides APWH but that’s only b/c I bought ~$100 worth of books and I’m not gonna let it go to waste. Thanks, though!
