<p>I'm considering whether I'd like to be in USH H or AP (which is, apparently, torture). The thing is, I love US history, but I'm definitely not a humanities person and I don't know if I could handle AP. However, I'm aiming for going to a very competitive college, so I'm trying to have the highest classes that I can. What I'd like to know is if any biology (or other science) majors took APUSH. Please tell me whether or not you took it, your major, and what college you are at.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. I think this will help me make my decision.</p>
<p>My daughter will be a biology major. She won't start attending college until the fall and we won't know which one she will be attending until after April 1. She did apply to some fairly selective schools (Wesleyan, Kenyon, Lafayette), and one who would describe herself as a science person who likes US History and literature. Anyway, she took APUSH last year, along with Physics, Microbiology, Pre-Calc, English and French IV and did fine. As I recall she scored a 5 on the AP exam and 770 on the US History SAT II (she actually did a little better on the history SAT II than the science tests she took).</p>
<p>So, yes, you can be a science kid and still survive -- even thrive -- in an AP US History class.</p>
<p>So was your daughter a junior when she took AP US History?</p>
<p>And I'm pretty sure I could handle it (to some extent), but I don't know if I'd be better off just in honors and having more time/energy to focus on my other classes.</p>
<p>Also, I'm currently in English CP (which, I must say, is still very challenging at my school), but I think I could handle Honors next year (there is no AP class in English offered to sophmores, by the way). However, I don't want to have to much on my plate, so which would you say is the better option:
English CP and APUSH
English H and USH H</p>
<p>Some of my other classes will be Intro to Java (the other options were Computer Science I or II), Chemistry Honors, Geometry Honors (I'm currently in Algebra II because my school does the math classes in an unusual order), and Spanish III H (there are mostly sophmores in my class).</p>
<p>What college someone goes to, whether they're a bio major, and whether they took APUSH have absolutely no relevance to each other or anything else, much less prospective pre-med. Not sure why you think this will help you with anything.</p>
<p>If you think you can handle it and you think it would benefit you (in terms of GPA, rank, college admission, and personal satisfaction) then take it.</p>
<p>It'll help me because I have a messed-up reasoning process.</p>