I am a rising junior and I have to decide my classes for junior year. I also want to do a dual enrollment program at Princeton University for math and computer science. For math I will finish all the math courses the school gives by the end of junior year, same for computer science. This Princeton program gives me many scheduling issues though, and I can only have 4 classes senior year, two of them being gym and LA. Another one will be APUSH. Now the problem is whether I should keep French 4 honors this year and do Physics honors senior year or drop French, leaving me at French 3 honors, and do Physics honors this year and maybe something like AP micro senior year. I do want to do something related to economics so I feel like micro could help. Also I think I have reached the recommended level for French. But I don’t mind doing an extra year, although it would push back Physics, which I don’t know how good that would be.
Do you have any type of option to do an online program this summer for gym? I would start by asking about your guidance counselor about that since I doubt any college cares where/how you take gym - they just care that you take it so you can get a diploma.
No there is nothing like that.
Ask your GC- many high schools have a summer or “online” program. Or ask if they’d accept Florida virtual high school’s, which requires Fitbit counts.
I’d recommend the French4 jr year+ physics senior year option because it covers your basics for highly selective colleges.
It may be easier for others to understand your options and give suggestions if you list what possible schedule combinations you can take, and what you have already taken in each major academic area (English, math, history and social studies, science, foreign language, visual or performing art, any other academic electives).
If you are aiming for the most selective colleges, completion of level 4 of a foreign language and all three of biology, chemistry, and physics would be a good idea to avoid admissions readers seeing a “deficiency” in your course selection. For less selective colleges, that may not be as much of an issue.
If you eventually go on to PhD study in math, a reading knowledge of French is useful due to math research papers being written in French (and German and Russian). PhD programs may require a reading knowledge of at least one of these languages.
I want to study computer science or data science, so I feel like knowledge in economics might help. My two options are simply french 4 honors junior year and physics honors senior year or drop french 4 honors and take physics honors junior year and a class tbd senior year, that most likely being ap micro.
I do want to go to selective colleges so I might be leaning towards french this year. Would taking physics senior year make it seem like I am doing a harder course senior year making it look bad on my transcript?
Why would taking a harder course senior year be a problem???
Honors Physics senior year is perfectly ok.
It’s much more important for you to have French4 and Physics (2 core classes) than to have AP Micro (nice to have but not a core class).
Ok thank you so much for your help!
@eagle520 you def one from WWP school district