AP Environmental or Business classes??????

Applying to College
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I am a Junior in high school and i aspire to go to NYU Stern to study Marketing. However, I am having a dilemma in choosing which classes to take next year right now. My school allows us to only take 3 sciences a year. I planned my schedule out on a piece of paper for next year and I don’t have enough room for the business electives that I want to take. Should I drop AP Environmental (since I don’t really need it) or should I pick and choose which business electives are more important? Since I’m applying to a business school, I wanted to know if the business electives (there’s about 6 of them) would look better or if AP Environmental would look better? What would the college admissions officers rather see?

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Have you taken or can you take AP micro and/or AP macro? What is the rigor of your course load (within the context of your high school)? AP environment seems like a pretty random class to take if there are other classes available that are more aligned with your academic interests. Can you pick one or two of the most appropriate/challenging of the business electives instead of all 6?

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There is a history course for seniors that involves economics but its Honors. However, I’m already in AP History so it wouldn’t look too good if I moved down from AP to Honors, especially since I already have an A in AP History now. Next year’s history course is AP US Government and Politics if that helps.

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I wouldn’t really drop APs. Which business classes are available?

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Marketing
Accounting 1,2,3,4
Business and Law
Intro to Business
International Marketing
Entrepreneurship

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And an Intro to Networking class as well

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Networking and Accounting are very useful overall. I’d take those. Out of the rest, if you can, choose whichever ones you like. These two should be the most challenging as well. Though it’d be nice if some actual business majors would leave some feedback.

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Just make sure you have other rigorous courses covered by end of senior year if your school offers them (in addition to your AP history classes) such as AP calc, AP language, AP science/s, and for business people perhaps AP micro/macro and AP stats. Again, these classes vary by what high schools offer, but if your school does offer them, the selective colleges out there prefer you take a rigorous load in what they consider core classes- math, English, social studies, sciences, language.