My school requires you to have taken Biology H and Chemistry H and have gotten above a 90 in both courses, but I have not taken Biology H, but Biology CP. I then got Chemistry H the next year and ended with 97. I just want to know if I am able to actually do it.
Can you? Sure, if the scheduling (and school policy) allows. Should you? No.
For starters, you should take physics and if you are able to double up without impacting another core subject, take one of the APs and save the other for the following year.
Taking 2 AP lab sciences concurrently is killer. In addition to the time commitment required by virtue of being AP’s, each requires a lot of time for labs and lab reports. For many schools, these classes are either double-periods, or require additional time before/after school. Maybe you are the 1% of the 1% who can handle these 2 together without your grades tanking, but that’s something for you and your GC to confirm. Even for a prospective STEM major, colleges would rather see a balanced schedule covering all core subjects.
But based upon your other threads with your past grades and struggles to get bumped up to honors classes, the school, if they even let you do something this crazy, would be doing you a disservice.
I took AP chem and AP physics c mechanics this school year and it wasn’t that bad. However, my school operates on a block schedule so we have a class for two hours every other day, and there were no before or after school requirements. Find out what your own school does and base your decision off of that.
A few comments:
– In terms of science your first priory shoudl be to take a sequence of bio, chem, and physics.
– In terms of what you will be allowed to take in your HS (ex. can you go from CP to AP Biology) is a question you need to take up with your guidance counselor. Nobody here knows your HS policy and the policies are different from school to school.
–SHOULD you take two AP sciences concurrently? My experience is that you should not unless you are an absolute whiz at science. The demands of two AP science courses and the related labs will be huge especially if you don’t’ have the typical preparation for AP Bio. (FWIW the only person I know from HS who took two AP sciences concurrently was a brilliant scientists – went to CalTech and was top of her class there).
–You already have posts asking if you can go into honors history without a teacher recommendation (having failed world history) and about skipping a level of math. Once again I strongly suggest that you STOP your focus on overloading in a subject, skipping levels of a class, getting into an honors class against your teacher recommendation and instead focus your attention on working on any personal issues you still have outstanding and doing as well as you can in school next year. Take your recommended coursework next year, do well, and move forward in a positive direction.
Not comparable. AP Physics C Mechanics is often (although not always) a companion to Physics C E&M as a combined course of the same duration as AP Bio and AP Chem. Additionally, the amount of time needed for each physics lab is usually less than for each bio or chem lab.
Again, this is at least the poster’s 3rd post asking if it’s a good idea to do something that many uber-advanced students successfully do. The issue here, though, is that the OP’s teachers’ comments, and his past academic performance, do not lead me to believe that he is one of these super-duper advanced students. And that’s perfectly OK. Walk before running.
@skieurope I did clarify in my post that the op should find out what his own school is like and base his decision off of that. Of course I don’t want him to think that a random person on the internet took ap chem and physics c mechanics and said it wasn’t that hard and so ill do that too.