<p>Hey!
I am a senior and I am thinking of dropping AP Biology.</p>
<p>Currently I am taking 5 APs
AP Econ (both)
AP Japanese
AP Lit
AP Stat
AP Bio.
And for first semester, I am expecting A- for AP lit but A for the rest including AP bio
They are not hard at all but some classes specifically AP Bio gives me too much works and is causing me so much stress.(The teacher basically bombards us with stupid worksheets that takes so much time to complete.)
Now the question is do you think it's OK to drop AP bio from second semester? I am going to TA AP physics instead. And in transcript, it will say 1st sem-AP Bio, 2nd sem-TA.</p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>If you were admission officer (at Harvard or MIT) would you reject me for dropping AP Bio?
(My intended major is engineering and I took AP Calc BC, Physics B, both physics C, Chemistry and got 5 for all last year.)</p>
<p>Rendomly dropping a course won’t help your application; that said, it probably will not be the deciding factor for whether you’ll get in. Your courses have already been pretty rigorous, so you should focus on your essays.</p>
<p>If I’m not mistaken, you must report the schedule change to any university you’ve applied to anyway. I don’t know that it would hurt you, since you’d be replacing it with an equally challenging class, however it certainly wouldn’t help you either. Perhaps and admissions officer would get the idea that you couldn’t handle the work?</p>
<p>Smithg1227 thank you for your reply. So for first semester, AP Bio grade will be shown as A, so do you think that will give an impression that I could not handle it? And for second semester, although I will be helping AP Physics, in transcript it will just say TA.</p>
<p>If i were you, I would just stay in AP bio. it would be reasonable to drop if you had a low grade but since you have an A, you should just stay. Being a TA is a joke. Also, if you drop the class, you have to go through the tedious process of emailing each school you applied to about the dropping.
and admission officers will probably wonder about why you dropped since you were getting a good grade in the class.</p>