<p>Hi, I am wondering when I should take AP environmental science, if at all.</p>
<p>These will be my schedules for junior and senior year:</p>
<p>(All 2 sem classes)</p>
<p>Junior:
Religion
AP English Language
AP Physics B
Computer Science: Advanced Data Structures (post-AP)
AP US History
Spanish 4 AP
Free Period</p>
<p>Senior:
Religion
AP English Literature
AP Physics C
AP Spanish 5
AP Art History
AP European History (probably) or AP Psychology
Free Period</p>
<p>I want to take AP ES and am thinking about when to take it. Should I replace my Free Period Junior (next) year with APES (I have a rigorous schedule and Junior year is very important, so I'm leaning against it - I do NOT want any B's or lower)? Or, should I replace my Free Period Senior year with APES (the schedule this year may be even harder however). Or, should I replace one of the histories (AP Art History/AP Euro) with AP ES in senior year (and self study the replaced history class)?? Or, should I just self - study the APES exam itself?</p>
<p>Plz give me advice. I had straight A's last year with honors/AP courses, and straight A's last semester with honors/AP courses, except a B+ in religion -_-. I am doing decent this semester, though I don't want to jinx it. However, AP english I know will be a lot of work, so I'm leaning towards keeping a free period. Advice please?</p>
<p>If I drop AP english, I’ll still have to take regular english so i would lack a free anyway
I might drop Euro though, but I’d still like to self study it in that case</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply
also, does taking the class + ap and getting a 5, look any better than just taking the AP and getting a 5? because I will be a math/sci major…</p>
<p>Well to be honest, there are some colleges that don’t even give you credit for getting a 5 on the APES Exam, I know Yale doesn’t, but that’s an overly prestigious example. APES is one of the easiest AP’s to take. An A in any AP is good, if you stick with A’s in almost all classes you should be fine. If you’re looking to fit APES into your schedule try dropping a class that you know won’t correlate with your life, because colleges make sure to accept kids who studied what they are interested in.</p>
<p>I’m taking all the other AP science exams as well, and APES and Bio are probably the least math-oriented i.e. furthest out of my career path. So do you suggest I just self study it, or take the class for the GPA boost? I want to take the AP exam either way, even if I don’t get credit at whatever school.</p>
<p>I would take the class senior year personally, but only because it’s easy and it’ll take a load off of you from your hard classes. I’m taking it senior year along with AP Lit (Maybe), AP Gov, AP Stat, maybe another AP and a couple of honors classes.</p>
<p>I really didnt bother reading your post, but I will tell you this, Don’t plan your schedule two years in advance. And by the middle of your Senior year, you wont give a crap about class, and you will thank yourself for not taking extra classes</p>
<p>I honestly think you should just self study APES. I took APES and biology at the same time, and honestly APES killed a couple of my brain cells. It was so pointless and easy, compared to Bio.</p>