<p>@MYOS1634 I’m not required by my high school to take a history class senior year. I’ve already taken 5 social science classes: freshman year- 9th grade history, sophomore- 10th grade history, junior- APUSH, AP Micro, and AP Macro. If colleges see me taking those extra social science courses junior year, will they be fine with me not taking one senior year?</p>
<p>^ yes</p>
<p>Can you list your Junior and Senior schedules?
AP Micro and AP Macro both count as half, so you have 4 Social sciences and you’re in the clear.
However we’d need to know what classes you’re taking and plan to take (more precisely than so far).</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 Junior year- Honors English, Honors Physics, Spanish 4, APUSH, AP Micro/Macro, AP Calc BC. Senior year- AP Statistics, AP Physics C, AP English, Advanced Spanish, 3 writing electives, and either AP Euro or AP Music Theory for the 6th class</p>
<p>A few notes- My school runs on the trimester system. Each writing elective is a trimester long, and I’m taking 1 elective each trimester. There are only 6 class blocks. I’m only supposed to take 3 APs, but that’s not strictly enforced senior year. Also, I can drop the electives if it comes to that, but I’m looking forward to them and would rather not do so.</p>
<p>I think you’re fine - you DO have 4 cores (Math, Physics, English, Advanced FL), you have 6 to 8 AP’s total and 4 AP’s/Dual Enrollment senior year -that’s what adcoms look for. You got calculus up to BC (and I do recommend the Fall Calc2/Spring Calc3 combo at a local college instead of AP Stats), advanced language, 3 History classes plus one social science…
If you’re looking forward to writing electives and AP Music Theory, keep them. It’ll help you stand out (provided you get A’s in them - you chose them, you MUST do well in them), and provide a topic for your interviews. Being passionate about learning trumps “wyhat’s expected”.
Of course for Stern and Wharton, you’ll also need killer SAT scores and top numbers overall, but I think this has already been established.</p>
<p>Ok thank you for all of your help @MYOS1634! I’m currently on spring break, but as soon as I get back to school, I’ll talk to my math teacher about taking Calc at a local college and my guidance counselor about switching my courses. I really appreciate all the input you’ve given me, and it’s made me more confident in my decisions.</p>