<p>I still have time to change around my schedule for next year(Junior year) and I wanted to know if you could rate my schedule. I'm applying to top schools(Upenn,nyu,jhu etc..) so is my course load good enough for them? The reason I have to take calculus honors instead of ap calc ab is because of a scheduling conflict and same with chemistry. Also I'm taking pre calc and calc 1 at the same time because at my school it is a pre-req to take pre calc at our community college before we take calc 1 but I reasoned with them to change it to a co req. </p>
<p>AP Statistics
AP Physics 1
AP U.S History
AP Psychology
AP Human Geography
Calculus Honors
Wind Ensemble(Honors)</p>
<p>DE Fall Term:
General Chem
Medical Skills and Services
Intro to Music Theory</p>
<p>DE Spring Term:
PreCalculus
Calculus 1 w/ Analtical Geometry
---Open Slot not sure yet----</p>
<p>Off the top of my head, this is a terrible schedule - not because it’s not rigorous but because it’s unbalanced and it’s a little insane to put pre-calc and calc in the same year. You’re setting yourself up for disaster by doing that. Why not just put calc in senior year where most people take it? Any gain you think you’re getting by rushing calc is not worth the considerable risk.</p>
<p>Also, no foreign language or English classes? Bad idea, unless you’ve already achieved Level IV in a language. But no English is always a bad idea, unless you have a good explanation for that.</p>
<p>And looking at the schedule again, it’s full of AP-lite classes, only APUSH is one of the cores. </p>
<p>Back up, try again.</p>
<p>I’m taking enc1101 right now for the summer term and I forgot to mention im taking french 2 flvs. I already took precalc honors this year so im not going in blind but i have to take it at community college in order to take college calc so that I can take calc bc senior year. Yeah I do see im taking alot of easy ap’s but only so that I don’t crash and burn with the dual enrollment classes@MrMom62</p>
<p>Seems like you’re taking some classes twice, once at the HS level, once DE - which does you little good and impresses the colleges on your list not at all.</p>
<p>There has got to be a better schedule for you than this.</p>
<p>Would it look better to take AP Calculus AB instead of human geography and instead of DE calculus and then drop pre calc DE @mrmom62</p>
<p>In my opinion, yes, especially if that opens up your schedule. Many schools don’t even offer AP Human Geography, I know of no college who’s particularly impressed by it, and it’s the one AP class you see a lot of 9th graders taking.</p>
<p>@MrMom62 Alright, I’ll try and open a slot on my schedule for it. Also you said before that my only impressive core AP was U.S History, so AP Physics 1 isn’t impressive to top colleges? I might think of studying to self study physics 2 so I can take physics C my senior year if they start the class(AP physics 1 is the only one offered in the physics line at my school)</p>
<p>I think you need to stop duplicating courses - if Physics C isn’t offered, take Physics 1, but don’t take both.</p>
<p>What do you mean duplicating courses? All I asked was if Physics 1 was good enough or if I should study and take the physics 2 exam. I’m not talking about physics C for junior year lol</p>
<p>What level of math have you already taken?</p>
<p>It is best to complete precalculus before taking calculus (and don’t take duplicating calculus courses).</p>
<p>Assuming that you have completed up to geometry and algebra 2, then either take precalculus in high school, or take precalculus in the fall at the college/DE and calculus 1 in the spring at the college/DE (yes, the college courses often do cover material faster than high school courses).</p>
<p>I’ve finished pre calculus this year @ucbalumnus </p>
<p>Then you can take calculus 1 in the fall at the college/DE, right? Why would you need to take precalculus again?</p>
<p>at my school they require you take pre calc at the college level before you go on to furthur math so i was either thinking of taking ap calc in shcool or calc 1 spring term de</p>
<p>Reading between the lines, that implies that your high school’s precalculus math course is of inferior quality. Normally, high school math through precalculus is expected to prepare a student to take calculus in college.</p>
<p>Try these math placement tests to assess your knowledge of high school math topics needed to be ready to take calculus:
<a href=“http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/placement/index.html”>http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/placement/index.html</a>
<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam”>http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam</a></p>
<p>Does the college have its own math placement test for students wanting to take calculus there?</p>
<p>Yeah we have the PERT and I passed with a 125 which means I can take calculus there but the only thing stopping me is my schools precalc rule so maybe i should just take calc ab in school to avoid the hassle</p>
<p>Looks like the highest score range of PERT does not distinguish between students who should take precalculus versus calculus: <a href=“Florida College System”>Florida College System;
<p>Try those other placement tests to see if you are ready for calculus.</p>