Does this look bad on a transcript?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hi Guys,

I’m currently a sophomore. At my school, freshman and sophomores are required to take an integrated science course(level 1 and 2 respectively) with chem, bio, and earth sciences integrated in the course. I’m currently taking the 2nd level of it, but the honors version. I was told that usually competitive colleges look for all 3 “core” science classes(chemistry, bio, and phys) seperately, but I don’t think that I can fit in all 3 of them into my schedule within the next two academic years, so I was wondering–would it look bad to take a condensed yearlong Honors Chemistry course over the summer and then to not take any other primarily chemistry-based courses in highschool? (Btw schedule for next year is as follows: AP Bio, Envi Sci, Eng. Lang, USH, Honors Precalculus, AP Spanish(online b/c scheduling issue), AP Psych(online & yearlong – not offered at school).

Thx!

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No it would not look bad at all although I wouldn’t do that to make room for AP Psych since that is not a very rigorous or thorough class. I assume that your reasons are that you can’t fit the actual class in because of actual conflicts during the school day.

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I’m not taking AP Chem primarily because of how crazy of a class it is at my school. I would have been taking AP Spanish in school, but there was a scheduling conflict with that unfortunately.

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Could u do chem instead of APES?

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my college counselor urged me not to do that :frowning:

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You should not be held accountable. You cannot help your school requirements.