Can somebody help me decide on classes for my junior year schedule?

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I’m about to be a junior next year in high school. I’m a very indecisive person and can’t make up my mind on what courses to take because I know junior year is the BIG year. So far here’s my classes:

AP Biology II
AP U.S. History
AP English III Lit & Comp.
Pre-AP Precalculus
Spanish III Enriched
A semester of PE
A semester of Psychology

My issue concerns the semester of Psychology and AP Biology. I think I’m leaning towards psychiatry or law for my career path and I’m confused as to what are my best classes to take in high school. I could have either taken AP Bio II, AP Physics, or AP Chemistry II. My counselor told me to take AP Biology II because she thought it applied the most to both of my career paths. She also said I should just take AP Physics senior year. I do like biology more than chemistry and physics looks rough, but I could handle the classes. What do you guys think? Also, I’m worried that I should be taking the full year course of AP Psychology. The only reason I signed up for a semester of regular psychology was because I need to complete one more semester of PE. My counselor told me I could always take AP Psychology senior year as well if I really enjoyed it and wanted to pursue it. I’m getting really stressed about this because I have very bad decision making skills :slight_smile: . I’m ranked high in my class and want to keep it that way. What should I do???

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take ap bio. if it comes down to those classes, you should take ap bio and if you really want to do psych, buy an ap book and self study. i took a crash course in ap psych in 12 days over the summer and self studied the week before the ap exam and i probably at least got a 4. you cant really self study bio though

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at my school, ap psych is only a one semester class and we do just fine on the ap exam

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Your schedule sounds fine. If you want to be a psychiatrist, you need to go to med school so you’ll need to take biology, chemistry, and physics as an undergraduate. Since you have room for two of those AP courses in your schedule (one in your junior year and one in your senior year), take whichever two you want. AP Bio and AP Physics is fine. I wouldn’t recommend giving up one of the core science courses for AP Psychology because it’s more important to get a good background in the basic science courses.