<p>So I am a sophomore and it's time for me to pick my courses for junior and senior year. Typically at my school, the top students take 2 AP courses junior year and 4 AP courses senior year (none offered to freshmen and sophomores). How does this course load look?</p>
<p>Junior:
AP English Language
AP US History
Honors English 11 (required)
Honors Precalculus
Honors Spanish IV
Self-Study: AP Comparative Government and Politics</p>
<p>Senior:
AP English Literature
AP European History
AP Calculus (AB or BC undecided)
AP Spanish Literature
Honors Physics
Honors American Government</p>
<p>Is it okay that I am only taking 3 years of science? BTW, for my freshman year I took Honors Bio, Honors Geometry, Honors World History I, Honors Spanish II, and Honors English 9 and for my sophomore year I took Honors Chem, Honors Alg II/Trig, Honors World History II, Honors Spanish II, and Honors English 10.</p>
<p>Rigorous enough for what? What schools are you aiming for? I mean, this is my planned course load:</p>
<p>A = A level
H = Honors
AP = AP</p>
<p>Fresh:
Earth n Space Science - H
Fit for Life - A level (required)
Design & Logic - A level
Intro to Engineering - A level
English 1 - H
Government - H
Geometry - H</p>
<p>Soph:
USH - AP
Java - H
English 2 - H
Bio - H
Advanced Alg w/Trig - H
Principals of Engineering - H
Spanish 2 - A
Self studying AP: US Govt, Bio, Environmental Science</p>
<p>Junior:
Comp Sci A - AP
Micro/Macro Economics - AP
Physics B - AP
Lang and Comp - AP
Pre-Calc - H
Digital Electronics (electrical engineering) - H
Biotech - H
Spanish III - H</p>
<p>Self-Studying AP: Calc AB, Physics C: E&M, Physics C: M</p>
<p>Senior:
Stats - AP
World History - AP
Chemistry - AP
Human Geography - AP
Psychology - AP
Lit and Comp - AP
Calc AB - AP
Engineering Design & Development - H</p>
<p>Self-Studying AP: Euro History, Calc BC</p>
<p>Asking if your course load is rigorous enough is useless without also telling us ALL of the opportunities offered by the school. I’m taking as many APs as humanly possible at my school. The valedictorians graduate with single digit APs, and so do yours, but they aren’t looking at valedictorians - they are looking at the offered AP classes. I’ll be taking every single AP exam that is not something like Music Theory or a foreign language. I assume that my course load is the most rigorous that anyone at my crappy public school has ever done - I’m aiming for State AP Scholar. </p>
<p>List all of the APs your school offers. Then compare that to your projected course load. Have you taken the majority of the APs that are relevant to what you want to do?</p>
<p>My school offers ~12 APs but you can’t take like 6 or 7 courses in a year like a lot of the kids on CC can. I’m aiming for top schools (Dartmouth, Columbia, Amherst, Williams, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, etc.)</p>
<p>Yikes, I wouldn’t do 2 english classes in one year. Doesn’t the AP override the “required” honors class?</p>
<p>^I’m doing four in one year this year 
Two per semester.</p>
<p>It’s perfectly okay that you’re only taking three years of science, as long as you aren’t planning on majoring in science or engineering, subjects like that.</p>
<p>Bump, more opinions? How does my courseload compare to yours?</p>