Does taking one regular class look bad??

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Hey guys so I’m a rising senior who’s aiming for selective collge

So my school doesn’t offer tons of AP… In my senior year, I’ll be taking AP CALC BC, AP Lit, and AP Stat.

I’m actually interested in psycology and decided to drop AP Bio and take regular psycology. (There’s no honors or AP Psychology)

Will this look bad?? Anatomy honors was also offered but I just HATE anatomy…

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I have a friend who got into Harvard EA last year and took regular USH instead of APUSH junior year.

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I don’t know how many AP’s you took before senior year. So you are only taking a total of 4 classes? Ideally, you would be taking Math, English, History, Science and a Foreign Language each year at an appropriate level of difficulty. At some schools, taking 3 AP’s is as many as the top students and at other schools the top students take 5 or even 6 AP courses senior year. If you are targeting the very top liberal arts colleges or the Ivy League, you would have been better off sticking with AP Bio. If by selective you mean colleges that are difficult but not super difficult to get into you are probably fine.

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hey thanks for the reply!! yeah that’s good to know

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i’m taking 5 in total from my fm year to senior year. And yes, I am applying for very competitive college but I also wanted time to study for SAT and college essay thanks for the reply anyway!

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And I’ll be taking AP calc AB, AP Lit and AP Stat so…

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I think you’ll be fine. I’m a high school & college freshman taking all normal classes and I’m able to get in already to my (temporary) college of choice. It won’t look bad in my opinion.

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I took regular bio, US history and world history (there were AP options available) and I’m at MIT now. As long as you’re challenging yourself and taking the most interesting classes to you…

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I don’t think normal classes look “bad”. They don’t look as good as APs, though.

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No it will not look bad. It’s all in context of what your school offers. If you are interested in taking psychology and your school does not offer an honors course, it’s not like you suddenly make it an honors course. Even if, for example, your school offered 20 AP classes and had an 8 period day, there is no expectation from any college that all classes need to be AP.

:-< See above.

I’ve said this before, but I took the grand total of 2 AP classes as a senior (Euro and Art History), which are not even the most rigorous AP’s, as well a couple of post-AP classes and a “normal” theater course. I’m a freshman at Harvard. YMMV.