Course selection problems

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hey everyone,

Because I got accepted into Honors English late, I now have scheduling conflicts, and I want to hear more opinions before I talk to my school.

I have to pick one of the following sets of classes to add to my schedule:

  1. [current schedule] English, Physics, Chinese Politics/Current Events in the Media (language course), AP Computer Science
  2. Honors English, AP Computer Science, other Chinese courses (not too interested in those) or another language
  3. Honors English, Chinese Politics & Current Events, another elective

I am currently taking one more class than most other students because I applied for it, but with options 2 and 3, I will give that up. (AP CS and Physics are considered electives.)

For your reference, here are my unaffected classes:
Honors History
Honors Alg II
Chemistry

Also, I intend to go into business or computer science in college. Is H English worth dropping for? H English is not much harder than the regular class; however, I think the GCs are convinced that it’s rigorous.

Thanks for your input!

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Personally, I would keep your schedule as it is (option #1). Depending on the colleges that you’re planning on applying to, a rigorous course schedule with as many classes as possible is key. No, I definitely would not drop Honors English. You said that it is not that much harder than regular English; keeping Honors English will help with the rigor. I wouldn’t pick option #2. You said that you weren’t interested in the other Chinese courses, and I wouldn’t take classes that I wasn’t interested in. If you end up choosing option #2, you might be miserable in that class. I wouldn’t pick option #3 because it doesn’t have the rigor like option #1. You also said that you want to either go into computer science or business in college. Option #3 doesn’t have APCS as an option, so I wouldn’t take it. Colleges like students taking classes that are somewhat related to their majors, and classes that show rigor. Option #1 has both, so I would stick with the schedule that you have. If you want to switch schedules, then I would pick option #2.

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I would keep the first one.

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Just to hammer it in, option 1 is the best schedule by far.