Course selection junior year

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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My D is going to be a junior in high school, and she will be finishing the highest level of the science track this year. She is concerned whether she should take another history course this year instead so that she will have a science class senior year. She’s academically gifted and had no problem handling her coursework the past two years. She has an interest in STEM and wants to go into biochem/biophysics/molecular biology.

Freshmen year
Geometry H
Accelerated English
Chemistry Accelerated
World History and Geography
French 3 Accelerated
Computer Science Accelerated

Sophomore Year
Precalc H
English Accelerated
AP Physics 1
AP Bio
AP French
AP Comp Sci A

Junior Year
AP Calc
AP Lang
AP Chem
AP Physics C → do this senior year instead, replace with Philosophy H and AP Macro
APUSH

Any advice would be appreciated.

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For college admissions, it makes no difference to them if she does 4 science credits in 3 years vs in 4 years. For her sanity, though, considering that she will likely be prepping for SAT/ACT, she should not take AP Chem and AP Physics C concurrently. But that’s a personal choice.

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I agree that keeping Physics C for senior year would make more sense based on the possible schedule.