<p>I'm a high school sophomore, but I've finished all of my high school courses and am going to be doing mostly dual-enrollment next year. Since you people are college students, I was hoping you can help me understand which courses are the most beneficial to take.</p>
<p>The dual-enrollment courses can range in cost, from $100-1000 per credit, depending on course and level. </p>
<p>I've recently taken:
AP European History
AP Human Geography
AP Psychology
AP Physics B
AP Microeconomics
AP Macroeconomics</p>
<p>Next Year I'll take:
AP Calc BC
AP Biology
AP English Lang
AP US History
AP Statistics
AP Art History
AP World History</p>
<p>The problem is, however, that I have no idea which courses are useful in college. I don't want to spend several thousand on courses that won't be involved with my intended major [International relations, government, economics and/or math, depending on the school]. How can I find out what courses are the courses that I have to take to graduate [i.e you need 120 credits to graduate; certain courses must be taken, such as the equivalent of AP Calc BC]?</p>
<p>So far, I plan to do Linear Algebra over the summer and some 200 and 300 level economics courses during the year.</p>
<p>I’m confused on this: are your AP classes also dual enrollment? Or are you looking a year ahead past the courses you’re planning to take next year?</p>
Why do you have to take classes dealing with your major? They might not transfer anyway. A lot of people use dual enrollment to take classes that will meet distribution requirements. </p>
<p>That’s the point of this thread; to find courses that fill distribution requirements or ones that could help with my major. The issue is that I have no idea what those courses are,but y’all might</p>
<p>Since colleges’ distribution requirements vary all over the place (from none at Brown, Amherst, and Evergreen State to extensive at MIT, Chicago, and the military service academies), you may not have as much luck trying to cover them for all possible colleges.</p>
<p>What schools are you considering applying to, and what school (or kind of school, e.g. community college, state university, small private school, etc.) is the dual enrollment school?</p>
<p>I plan on applying to the following colleges. As you can see, they are mostly private, save for my state school, relatively small, and focused in a lot of niches. Please note, I just copied and pasted this from another thread, so it may be a bit confusing; the parenthesizes or brackets describe what I want to do at each institution</p>
<ol>
<li>Balliol @ Oxford [PPE]</li>
<li>Georgetown (I’d probably do International Relations or something at SFS)</li>
<li>JHU (International Relations)</li>
<li>Tufts (I.R)</li>
<li>Harvard [Economics + International Relations, might do something at the Berkman[?] Center for Internet and Society, also thinking of doing Advance Standing]</li>
<li>Stanford [Economics + I.R, but I’d also like Psychology, Philosophy or Political Science]</li>
<li>UConn [State School; Double major in Puppetry and Pre-Med, so probably Bio]</li>
<li>Cornell [Dyson AEM + Vitrology]</li>
<li>Columbia [Government, English and/or International Relations. Economics too, maybe]</li>
<li>Princeton [Woodrow Wilson; International Relations + Economics]</li>
<li>CalTech [Really strange story, but Material Science and Pre-Med]</li>
<li>MIT [Linguistics, Pre-Med in Bio, Material Science]</li>
<li>Brown [Pre-Med and IR, probably]</li>
<li>Dartmouth [Pre-Med + An individualized major based on how computer data is archived. Maybe German too]</li>
<li>UPenn [Huntsman or Jerome Fisher. Maybe do one of the Vagelos programs]</li>
<li>UChicago [4 Year BA/MA in Math, maybe Economics or Government]</li>
<li>Northwestern [Kellog Certificate + 4 Year BA/MA in Economics</li>
<li>USC [Keck Scholarship, hopefully, and Pre-Med]</li>
<li>Pomona [English + PreMed]</li>
<li>Either Bowdoin or Swathmore [See Pomona]</li>
</ol>
<p>I’ll probably cut the list to 16 and get rid of numbers 20, 19, 14 or 4, and 1</p>
<p>Considering the possible majors you listed, consider taking introductory courses in political science and philosophy to give you exposure to those topics, which may help you decide on your interests.</p>
<p>If engineering is of interest, continue on with math (multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations) and take calculus-based physics. Since you mention materials science and engineering, consider an introductory materials science course if available.</p>
<p>Why would your choice of majors vary so widely depending on the school?</p>
<p>I like various subjects, certain schools have certain advantages and some schools call one major something different than another. </p>
<p>Anyway, is calc-based physics a requirement for engineering? I took AP Physics B this year and wound up hating it a lot. Of course, my math and science teachers have perennially been horrible at teaching.</p>
<p>Yes, engineering majors must take calculus-based introductory physics courses (usually two, sometimes three, semesters’ worth). Much of engineering is the use of physics and math principles to sold design problems.</p>
<p>Oh, darn. My issue comes from unhelpful/really bad teachers, so maybe it won’t be that bad in college.</p>
<p>Anyway, another issue that I face is that if I was to take government and/or economics courses, I’d reach 400-500 level courses before the end of high school and be forced to only take graduate courses. Would I be able to use those courses in college?</p>
<p>Economics and political science (and math) departments usually have a broad range of junior/senior level electives; it is unlikely that you will be able to take all of them with a full dual-enrollment schedule in high school, unless the dual-enrollment school (or department) is a small one (presuming it is a 4-year school, as opposed to a community college that has only frosh/soph level courses).</p>