Course Selection Junior Year

Applying to College
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 Hello! I'm currently a repeat sophomore at a boarding school. I am supposed to be making decisions in regard to what courses I plan on taking for my junior year, and I feel a little bit stressed. I think that having an extra year of high school allows me to have more time to focus on what I want to do in preparation for college, hence I would like to drop my foreign language (accelerated level 3) for a second science so that I can double up for junior and senior year. My original plan was to max out chemistry but considering I already have taken 2 consecutive years of that course, I was advised to take physics at least one year.

To make this rant shorter, my three plans are:
A. continue Spanish next year and take AP bio, then take physics and advanced bio as a senior
B. finish Spanish until I graduate and do bio as junior and physics as senior or visa versa
C: drop Spanish entirely and take bio and physics as a junior, and advanced bio and AP Chemistry or a different science elective as a senior

My ideal plan is C, but I’m just not sure which ones colleges will approve of. All plans without question will be virtually equally as vigorous.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!!

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i’m a bit confused, could you give more info about your background and academic performance? it’s hard to recommend some stuff when you say you repeated a grade but if that was for academic reasons maybe all these ap’s and advanced classes aren’t the way to go. Also what range of colleges are you thinking about (the repeat year might be concerning for some or maybe most)

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Thanks so much for your reply. Yes I repeated sophomore year for academic reasons and sports, because boarding school will definitely prepare me for my future. The transition from public school to boarding school was a major decision for me, and I trust that an extra year will provide me with a greater sense of maturity before I embark on my junior year which is undeniably the most important of the high school career.
I’m scheduled in the typical sophomore curriculum at the school, and as far as colleges go, I am looking at Duke and Cornell right now, but I haven’t put much thought into which specific college yet (I would like to major in forensic science). I would also like to take challenging courses in order to counter the mediocre impression I may have established by taking courses typical to that of a sophomore.