<p>I'm sitting here doing my summer assignement for AP Psych and just the prologue is bothering me, and I really don't want to be puzzled with this subject all year, working too hard on this class that doesn't interest me too much.
Here's the rest of my schedule:
Honors Calc
SUPA (Syracuse College class) English (Might drop this for Honors Humanities, would this look much different?)
SUPA Forensics
Entreprenourship
Television Production 2
Film Studies
Gym/Health</p>
<p>If I drop out of AP Psych I won't have any AP classes, but I'd still have 1-2 College level classes (depending on what I do with english) and 1-2 honors level classes. Would this greatly hurt my chances for admission to colleges?</p>
<p>My GPA Is 3.23 (huge upward trend, was an awful student freshman year, had a 3.74 as a junior), My SAT is 1910.</p>
<p>Colleges im interested in are ones like:
Syracuse
Penn State
Miami
Michigan
Maryland
BU
Northeastern
GWU
Delaware
NYU
so on and so forth. </p>
<p>Everyones always telling me "It's senior year, take it easy" but i really want to get into one of the above schools, and I don't want to mess it up. But right now this class is really giving me trouble, so if I can drop it to make my schedule slightly easier I will. Please help me out with this schedule trouble!</p>
<p>Drop it. You don’t need a class for AP Psychology. It’s one of the easiest AP’s, like AP Environmental Science. You can easily self-study it in no more than 2 months.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’d plan on self-studying. I’d either take the class, or I’d not take the exam.</p>
<p>Then grow some balls and deal with the prologue.</p>
<p>is taking the exam really that big a deal?</p>
<p>Your schedule is weak and you need it for your transcript. If you take the class, it will already be on it. If you don’t, make sure to report on your college application that you are doing Independent Study for it for your senior year. It’s not the matter of the exam at this point.</p>
<p>Is my schedule really considered weak? I’m taking honors calculus, and the 2nd hardest english class offered at the school, in addition to a college level science class</p>
<p>Unfortunately yes, it is weak.
BTW, most seniors have already finished Calculus.
Precalculus is usually a junior course at the latest, and a sophomore one if you are part of accelerated math. I’m a sophomore taking Precalculus next year and self-studying AP Calculus AB. I will have finished AP Calculus BC by the end of my junior year. Just something to think about.</p>
<p>yeah, but you are a college confidential overachiever. At my school, I was in accelerated math and that put me in Algebra 2/Trig as a Freshman. All sophomores take geometry, I took Precalc last year. For my school, and most in my area, Calculus is the senior math course, so definetely not “already taken by most seniors” . I’m not applying to Ivy league schools like you probobly are. I don’t care about you gloating in my thread…I’m thinking about my own college chances.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine without AP Psych. One more AP class at this point isn’t going to do much.
And Truffliepuff, actually the vast majority of high school seniors NEVER take calculus. At my high school (which is the best public school in the state) the honors track only takes you up to AP Calc AB. The only way you can get to BC is by a. doubling up on math freshmen year or b. skipping 6th grade math. So there are like 8 people taking BC this year. And you know what??? They’re all going to get 5s.</p>
<p>I’m not talking about just in your school. I’m talking about the rest of America and applicants YOU will have to compete with to when you’re applying to those schools. Especially to Michigan, NYU, BU, Northeastern, Syracuse, and Penn State - your schedule is weaker compared to most of the other applicants there. </p>
<p>In the context of those schools and their applicants, the seniors will have already finished Calculus or will be taking a Calculus class in their senior year - definitely not Precalculus.</p>
<p>Geez, accept the truth would you? And, actually, a CC overachiever would have finished the AP Calculus sequence by the end of sophomore year. The math sequence I am going through is actually the norm in a sense and far from so. I’m not gloating, you just can’t face the facts. The applicants to the schools you are applying to will have already finished Precalculus as it is typically a junior-year class. You NEED AP Psychology to strengthen your senior year schedule. What you have as your senior year schedule are blow-off classes to be frank. If you can’t deal with it and can’t self-study it either, then don’t take it or do independent self-study and undermine your standing to other applicants, simple as that. Stop complaining about how hard the summer homework is too. There’s seniors out there who have it much worse than you, even juniors and sophomores too. Take the constructive criticism I am giving you instead of being so defensive about it.</p>
<p>** I misread the Honors Calc as Honors Precalc. But still, your schedule is weak.</p>