<p>I am currently a senior in high school. I'm taking AP calc ab, APES, Art 2 and staff aide. This sounds like an easy schedule but in reality I'm having a D in AP Calc with a grade of 70, which is the lowest grade in the whole school (my school is relatively small, senior population is merely 200, and I rank top quarter,39%).
Math isn't my favorite subject because I struggled through Alg 2 and I got a B in PreAP Precal. I am not bluffing but freaking out right now because I always wanted to use the senior year to boost up my GPA (3.9/5 currently)
I'm not intended to take AP Calc test from the beginning because I want to take this class again in college without any struggling. Should I drop this class without making my transcript look bad? (my intended major is psychiatry or/and IO psychology)</p>
<p>If you guys need more info, I'd love to add. I'm desperate for some advice!</p>
<p>A couple of questions. Do you think that Calc in college will be easy? Is your class schedule in college going to be any easier than the one you have now? How much of an impact on your GPA do you think it would actually be to stay in the class? How much time are you spending on improvement? Have you considered tutoring? Does your school have a Mu Theta Alpha society? I don’t think you actually need calc for your major…what college are you planning to attend?</p>
<p>Okay so your two choices are either to stay in calc or drop out-and I’m assuming you’d take a class that isn’t calc?
Option 2 will make your course load very easy, as the classes you have are pretty much all easy classes right now. I can tell you that colleges, or at least competitive colleges, will not find your senior schedule very impressing. However, it will definitely improve your GPA.
Option 1 means that you’ll most likely suffer a bad grade. Now you really have to consider the type of schools you are looking to apply to. If for example you wanted n at Yale, they’d definitely frown upon the fact that you dropped your only hard class and that your academic curriculum is not very rigorous. I’d stay if this were the case and just really get some help-maybe from a tutor or the teacher. There’s really no excuse to still be failing after a lot of hard work, calculus is not going to be rocket science.
Also, if you stay and manage to improve your grade, just think of what that extra weighted scale would do for your GPA.
All in all, it is your call… Consider what you’re college would want or value more: you having tried hard and improved in a rigorous AP course your senior year or to take another easy class with an easy 4.0?</p>