<p>So I signed up for APUSH and AP Euro junior year along with AP chemistry, AP english, honors pre calculus, religion (easy class, school required), Mandarin chinese 3, and ceramics (i need an art credit to graduate). I thought it would just be a lot of work, but I recently learned that the APUSH and Ap Euro exam are on THE SAME DAY! I called my school's guidance office and asked about it. They said there would be lunch break between the exams and the exams are at school, so scheduling wouldn't be a conflict. They encouraged me to continue taking the class (instead of switching into an easy elective that block like psychology or creative writing). I am doubting if i can do this. School doesn't start for a few weeks so i'm trying to decide if i should take ap euro or switch out. I wanted to take this class because I am trying to get enough college credits to skip a year of college. ap classes also put a major weight on my gpa (100% = 5.8). My weighted right now is only 4.4 and I am worried about colleges because I also don't do a lot of extracurriculars. Please help!</p>
<p>Don’t take two history classes. One is already consuming. No college would accept you or further consider you if you took an extra history. If you want enough credits to skip a year of college, look into CLEP. I don’t know about the exam conflicts. You said you don’t have extracurriculars…so why wouldn’t you lessen your time by dropping APUSH/Euro? Pick the one you think you’d like the best. 3 APs are enough, honestly. Stop caring about a 4.4. Those other classes will raise your GPA anyways. You’d probably not preform as well with two AP history classes and other hard classes.</p>
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<p>Trust me back to back exams are not a problem. It will not affect your performance. I have had friends who have taken AP music theory and both Physics C exams on one day (that’s three exams!) and gotten 5s on each. If that’s the only reason you want to drop the class, it’s a poor one.</p>
<p>2 exams on the same day is the least of your problems. Both of these classes are a lot of work during the academic year. It would not be my first choice of a schedule.</p>
<p>I would suggest dropping one and doing more ECs. Please also note that many higher tier colleges will not accept AP credit for the purpose of cutting down a year.</p>
<p>Adding on to the commenter who suggested using CLEP instead to skip, note that many schools do not accept CLEP credit at all. What major/schools are you looking at?</p>
<p>The reason I don’t have a lot of extracurriculars isn’t because of schoolwork bogging me down. I just honestly haven’t found much in my town (or my very small school where sports, drama, and about 6 or 7 clubs). I have volunteered at an animal shelter since freshman year (20 hours freshmen, 30 hours sophomore). Sophomore year I joined 2 clubs (key club and art club, although key club only allows seniors to be officers and art club doesn’t have officers). I was thinking maybe starting an animal welfare club this year, if i can get a teacher sponsor (school requirement). I also taught myself guitar freshmen year and i’m good enough to perform, but since I taught myself I can’t really put it on college apps. I was thinking in the next few weeks to fill out an application to volunteer at another animal shelter, candy stripping at a hospital, and looking at what the library offers. I also want to enter some essay contests and I’m looking for internships next summer (medical related). I’m not really religious so church isn’t an option. I know this isn’t an extracurricular thread, but I just wanted to point these things out. </p>
<p>Now the reason I want to take 4 AP classes. My school wouldn’t allow AP classes freshmen and sophomore years. Now the class below me can take AP Euro, but that’s it. I even asked if I could take APs online, but they said they wouldn’t count it because it’s “too easy”. I have taken the hardest schedule I can previously with all honors classes and got an A in every class except my english class this year (long story short, I got a C, the teacher was a depressed ■■■■■ who would whine about her dead husband in class, she had a vendetta against me and would hallucinate that I was in other classes of hers that I wasn’t in [students told me she was yelling my name in homeroom, I wasn’t in her homeroom]. I think I can get an A in my AP classes this year. I also am studying and aiming for 700 and above on each section of the SAT in October.</p>
<p>I know this was long but my point is, I have NO IDEA what colleges I should even be looking at. I want to do biomedical engineering and maybe go to med school. </p>
<p>Also, every volunteer organization is 30-40 minutes from my house, so I can only do it on weekends. I can’t drive and that area is so busy my parents wouldn’t let me drive if I could. Another reason why I haven’t done much volunteering. </p>
<p>I just explained the situation above ^</p>
<p>I took APUSH as a junior and now am signed up for Euro as a senior. I took 4 APs last year including back to back AP Lang and AP Statistics (awful, but my school really messed up our lunch break). My APUSH class was a lot of work, but it wasn’t particularly challenging. In fact, I wished I had taken Euro as a junior because one of the FRQ prompts asked us to speak about the Enlightenment philosophers, and puritans and their impact on American ethos (paraphrasing here).
However, I LOVE history. I wouldn’t recommend taking both just because you think it looks good. Take APs you like for personal enrichment. </p>
<p>I do enjoy history. </p>
<p>@comput1 Then go for it. I recommend reading a prep book for Euro (the more esoteric and clunky one) before school starts. That’s what I did and I feel a little better going in to it. </p>
<p>@comput1 I would recommend dropping AP European History, that class is similar to AP World History whereas you don’t get bright credit for GE in college. AP United States History is a wonderful and useful class I heard because the credit you get can will exempt you from GE and the requirement on its own (at some institutions you have to take US History and US Government in college). </p>
<p>I would look at state schools if money is a problem, they are affordable, the only schools that really accept AP credit for the most part, and if you’re planning to go to graduate school, from what I’ve heard, it really doesn’t matter where you go for undergraduate because graduate schools are looking at you as a whole rather than where you came from. </p>
<p>Just try to take it easy. You’ll be fine. My sibling told me to enjoy high school at its fullest, because you will be entering in the real world after HS most likely (unless if you stay home). </p>
<p>Good luck, just drop one of the history APs and your schedule is mostly doable. </p>
<p>I believe in you, you can do it if you simply try.</p>
<p>You can go to medical school and go into biomedical engineering at virtually any good college with that department. I would be somewhat concerned with having two AP history courses in the same year. They require alot of focus and memorization I have had friends that did it, but the workload can be immense sometimes. Alternatively, you will be using the same skills and writing DBQs will help you prepare for both. However, if possible, I would separate them out and take one senior year. From experience, two tests in one day is tough and the small break is like one class period where you can eat lunch and attempt to do a brief review.</p>
<p>In the end, taking two history courses probably won’t be too much benefit, college GER selection wise. You’ll probably already satisfy the history GER with just one and have the other count as an elective.</p>
<p>It’s your choice, you know your time management skills better than anyone else here</p>
<p>Also, the skipping a year of college is if I go to a state school. If I got into a more prestigious college I wouldn’t mind going all 4 years. If I had a chance that is. Either way I need aid as my family honestly cannot contribute anything towards my college tuition and I will end up on loans if I don’t get aid/scholarships. </p>