AP Course advice

<p>How are there 4 APs in math–Calc AB, Calc BC, Stats, ???
Wouldn’t the college courses be a semester (or quarter) long? Do you have a plan for 4 semesters of math in 11th and 12th? (We do, but will have to be flexible about schedules.)</p>

<p>What is the kid’s major likely to be? With all that math, one would think something STEM, in which case some math-heavy sciences like an AP Physics of some sort would make sense. But, the two languages to the AP level plus 2 AP arts argues for a more humanities focus, which is contradicted by the lack of social studies.</p>

<p>Computational linguistics? (In which case, throw in AP CS…)</p>

<p>I agree that 2 years of social sciences will not meet the recommendations for most colleges and will be short of the minimum for some. My son will probably be at the minimum of 6 semesters of social sciences, and even that makes me nervous that we chose to have him take a 1 semester dual-enrollment World History instead of the AP. His social studies will likely be APUSH (2 sem), AP Micro/Macro (1 sem each), AP US Govt (1 sem), and World History dual enrollment (1 sem). The dual-enrollment semester counts as one year for Univ of Calif, but likely as one semester for privates. The reason for taking WH dual-enrollment is his desire to have at least 4 years of AP or college-level science. So, I guess that’s pretty spikey.</p>

<p>I believe that 6 year-long classes is the normal minimum schedule, though there is usually some fluff like PE and Health. My son’s school normally allows 6 courses, and that feels very limiting without an extra course at the local community college to bring it up to 7. Sports teams would make that difficult, however.</p>