<p>My school is a private catholic high school on a block schedule (8 classes per semester divided into 2 blocks called A and B days), which is also the only high school in the country with mandatory bioethics courses. They require a certain number of bioethics, health and religion credits, so those classes take up a lot of slots in my schedule. Also, AP chemistry at my school meets on both A and B days (as in I have AP chemistry class every day for both semesters), so that limits my class choices even further. Because of this, I decided to drop French 4 in order to make room for AP Chemistry. Since I know that W&M looks for a fourth year of language, will my choice penalize me during the admissions process?</p>
<p>Also, I am not able to take Calculus. I am currently taking Honors Pre-Calculus. I did, however, take physics at the honors level.</p>
<p>Would you be able to substitute another AP science for AP Chem (say AP Bio or AP Physics) so that you could take French 4. Because our process is holistic no one thing will be what makes or breaks your decision but we do like to see the fourth level of a foreign language, physics and calc. Not having two of those three could make your transcript weaker than other applicants in our pool so if there’s any way you can take French 4 that would be a plus for you.</p>
<p>At this point in time, my schedule is pretty much set in stone. Also, my school is relatively new (opened my freshman year) so they don’t offer either AP physics or AP biology yet. The only AP science course they offered this year was chemistry. I guess I’ll just have to hope that everything else looks good enough to get me admitted. I’ll also be applying ED if that helps me at all.</p>