Due to scheduling conflicts for senior year I was unable to take AP Bio, and AP physics 1 and c has easily the worst teacher in the school (the average ap score for his class is a 1 or 2) so I opted for AP Environmental Science. Turns out I really dislike the subject a lot and find it boring and the teacher isn’t great (90 year old woman who’s been teaching for 50 years or something insane). I wanted to take AP politics but I thought having a 4th year of science was more important, well now I’m really considering dropping the class for AP politics since it would open up a spot in my schedule. The problem is I already take (and really enjoy) AP modern Euro. Is it worth it since APES is seen as a fairly weak AP to drop it to take AP Politics and have 2 history APs? I have 0 idea about the difficulty about AP politics but it’s a subject I very much enjoy exploring in my free time. I’m looking at either Colgate or Northeastern as my ED school and if I don’t get into either I’ll apply to: U of Rochester, Wake Forest, Lafayette, Gettysburg, Hillsdale, Liberty, American, Franklin and Marshall and UCONN. Most of these schools just want 3 sciences but i don’t know if that’s just something they say and they actually really want 4
If you were targeting colleges that asked for 4 years of science, or are planning to major in STEM, I would caution you. Additionally, no college will accept “the worst teacher in the school” or "90 year old woman who’s been teaching for 50 years " as valid reasons for not taking a class.
However, for your target colleges if your are planning non-STEM, you’d be fine with the switch.
You can switch unless you hope to major in stem, where selective colleges would expect 4 units of science.
If you’re applying to F&M, Lafayette, and Gettysburg, add Dickinson (better than these for political science).
Note that I don’t think you’d be okay attending AU if you would be happy at Liberty, and vice versa.
Have you taken Bio, Chem and Physics of some form?
If yes, then It depends on your major.
If STEM, keep the science. Study on your own.