Course Selection

Applying to College
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<p>I'm currently a junior. I'm aiming for a school like Northwestern, Penn, or Brown for music and anthropology. What classes do colleges most respect? There are a few classes I think would be worthwhile and interesting, and I don't know how to choose.</p>

<p>What I will definitely take:
AP Calculus BC, AP English, Band, Choir, Practical art for graduation, Gym, Honors Physics</p>

<p>1 extra spot:
AP Psychology, AP US Gov., AP Chemistry (I haven't had any AP sciences due to freshman physical science.), Honors German (I couldn't take it this year due to a scheduling conflict, but I'm going to take it online. I could do two years worth online.)</p>

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<p>I’d pick APUSH or AP Chem, whichever appeals to you more. AP Chem is probably viewed as more rigorous by most colleges.</p>

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<p>Honestly, I’d drop honors physics and take AP Chem and AP Phys (I heard its an easy course). AP Govt is boring…If you had to pick only then go whichever AP you like the best and which one is in your best subject. Colleges don’t look at what ap’s you took, just at how many and grades in them.</p>

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<p>^sorry, came off wrong. It doesn’t matter if you take AP Pysch or AP Bio or AP physics (unless colleges are like MIT, etc.). What ap you takes factors 0 into their decision. Just as long as you took them, challenged yourself, and most importantly had the most rigorous courseload. Right now it looks like you’ve got 4 easy classes, 2 ap’s and 1 honors. If your looking at brown/upenn/northwestern it would be better to take 4 ap’s than 3.</p>

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<p>i can’t take ap physics… at my school, honors is a prerequisite to ap science, which is why i’ve never been able to take ap science.</p>

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<p>I would say Psych if you want an easy class
I would say Gov if your interested in it
I would say Chem if you want a rewarding experience</p>

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<p>I don’t think Psych and Gov are as highly regarded by colleges as Chem.</p>

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<p>You very much need a history/social science course and a language course. Taking a language “online” does not make a great deal of sense unless it is in addition to taking the language at school. You have to practice speaking, and ideally you need to get to the point where you can read and discuss (in class) literature of the language.</p>

<p>For the history/social science course your best option is the most core of the options you name – i.e. APUSH.</p>

<p>Your other 3 academic courses (English, Physics, and Calculus) are good choices.</p>

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I don’t believe that this is true. Colleges are well aware that Human Geography, Psychology. etc., are easier than, say, Chemistry, Physics, or a foreign language.</p>

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<p>i think i may have a solution! i can probably get my practical art done at a community college this spring, and then I will have two openings, which would a lot easier to work around.</p>