<p>Right now I have three APs: Bio, World, and Calc BC. This means that next year I have four: Stats, Chinese, Compsci, and APUSH. Non APs are Physics and English (English teacher is rumored to be extremely hard though, but godly good). Not sure what I'm doing for senior year. </p>
<p>What I'm curious is, I took all the more "serious" and "heavy" ones my sophomore year, so when it comes time to do apps during senior year, if they just look at my junior year, it's the "easy" APs. Does this negatively impact my application? I'm aiming for Harvard/Princeton/Stanford. No, it's not because it's prestigious or anything - I actually visited Harvard when my sister got accepted and I loved it. (Okay, I lied, maybe it is a little affected by the prestige, but still.)</p>
<p>I'm probably going to be focusing heavily on a couple of ECs so it's not like I'll have a bunch of free time, either.</p>
<p>Colleges look at your whole schedule, and taking challenging courses throughout your time in high school is important. I’m sure colleges won’t hold your “easier” AP course selection against you. You might also want to consider taking the AP English exam if you have such a great english teacher.</p>
<p>@BigIs: Chinese, since I’m native. Compsci, kinda.</p>
<p>@Lord Ernie: So it’s basically as long as I do Bio and Calc sometime in my highschool career (which I did) I’m fine, and it doesn’t matter when I do it? Perhaps doing Bio and Calc early will even help my resume?</p>
<p>No, no, no! Keep your rigorous schedule, otherwise you w-i-l-l compromise your admission! You must challenge yourself to the extreme. Hey, it helped me get into Yale :)</p>
<p>In what world does APUSH qualify as “easy”? o.O</p>
<p>For comparison: I took Spanish Lang and US junior year, and Physics B, Calc AB, English Lit, and Psychology this year. That is fewer in my whole career than you have before your senior year. And I’m going to Yale (turned down Harvard). Good grief, you need a reality check. If you are taking the most rigorous course load available to you, you will be FINE.</p>
<p>You already took BC, so taking stats is fine (taking stats INSTEAD of BC wouldn’t be good)
USH is actually considered harder than World
You’re taking physics (non-AP) which is fine since you have 4 other APs
CS isn’t really hard or easy</p>
<p>Taking AP Chinese though as a native is useless. If you really want to, go ahead.</p>
<p>@cs: well, honestly, I don’t have a choice. All the “serious” ones like Calc and Bio I’ve already done.</p>
<p>@james: agree on the Chinese, kinda of regretting taking it now. Any suggestions on something else? Our school doesn’t offer Physics, btw, and I can’t take Chem since I don’t have the prereq - I skipped it to take AP Bio.</p>
<p>^ You said your “non APs” are physics and English, so doesn’t your school offer physics? Honestly anything but a study hall would be better than AP Chinese.</p>
<p>why don’t you self-study AP Chinese, and take another easy AP , such as US gov. you could reach total 8 APs. eligible for AP national scholar :-)</p>
<p>I meant non APs since the other ones all were so I was differentiating between APs and nonAPs. My Chinese actually isn’t THAT up to par right now but “passable”. </p>
<p>Our school doesn’t offer Physics or Euro. We don’t have Human Geo either. </p>
<p>@askq: I’m doing US Gov for sure senior year with US econ. Still not sure about the math and science, I think I might do community college or something.</p>
<p>To be AP national scholar before you send out college applications, before senior year.
community college is not that…good. you maybe learn nothing.</p>
<p>@askq: At least I can be an AP Scholar with Distinction before I become a Senior.</p>
<p>But is it like something I write on my app, or will they figure it out by just looking at the app? I know you have to apply and stuff, but would it actually be important? It’s simply recognition for taking five+ AP’s and scoring well on them… which can be seen if you just look at the app.</p>
<p>Not sure if I communicated coherently there, my brain’s a little mush from studying for World AP</p>