So my schedule for the junior year has me taking AP Bio for science(took Honors Chem this past year), WCC Business calculus(after a took and did well in WCC Precalc, but they don’t allow a jump to AP Calc) for math, and as well I am taking a statistics class. My original plan for senior year was to just take AP Enviro and AP Stats (since business calc doesn’t have a true follow up course) as my math, to give myself an easier time.
My question is would it be a good idea for senior year for me to instead take AP Physics 2 (I took Honors Physics freshman year, but didn’t that well to do AP ), and take AP Calc AB (alongside AP Stats)? Would the fact that I would have had more math knowledge make up for the gap since the last time I took physics? And would taking AP Calc help all that much or would I do fine without it having already taken a calculus course the year prior?
For more context, I’m probably going into computer science, thus I’m taking both computer science APs junior and senior year, so I know it would all look better but I understand that overstuffing my schedule may be an issue.
Since you said you didn’t do that well to do AP, it would be better to take AP Physics 1 if you wanted to take an AP Physics class. I suggest not overwhelming yourself with too much APs especially with college applications during senior year.
My son’s school does honors physics as a freshman and he took AP physics senior year no problem. If going into CS they want to see rigor depending on the schools. What does you counselor think. What’s your unweighted GPA?
I haven’t discussed with my counselor about this but my unweighted GPA I believe is around 93.
For CS, esp a BS in CS, I would take AP Physics 1 and AP Calc AB