<p>I'm going to try to make this ad quick ad possible.</p>
<p>So. My family has zero money. I push myself in school so I can not only go to a good college, but also so I can pay with scholarships. My parents don't push me. I push myself. I don't want to end up like them.</p>
<p>Which is why I feel I need to take AP's/Honors classes. Freshman year I took AP Human Geo and two honors classes. This year as a sophomore I'm taking AP US History and two honors classes. I want to be able to continue pushibg myself with APs junior year, as I understand it is supposed to be your hardest year (based on course rigor). So my plan was to take AP Calc BC and AP English... I don't think I should do AP Econ because my goal is to get a 4.0 next year, and I'm not sure if I can handle 3 APs. Heck, fresh and soph year I got a B+ and B in my APs. 5 on the fresh year exam, but prob 3 or 4 if lucky on the APUSH exam. I hate social studies... It was a poor decision to take the APs. Should have focused more on sciences.. Oh well. Too late.</p>
<p>Anyway, my dilema here is that I don't know if I should continue pushing myself with taking 3 ap's next year, or take 2 ap's with regular econ, or skip econ all together and take Journalism/Newspaper. I am torn between following my interests in a non-ap route, possibly discovering more about what I want to do in college and proving colleges I have the brains by taking 3 ap's. The thing is, I honeslty don't think I would enjoy ap econ, and i probably wont hve 200 bucks for the ap exam at rhe end of the year ON TOP of the other 200 for ap calc and ap english. Then again, I will be spending 200 on summerschool econ if I take journalism. But I love writing, and I was already featured in the school newspaper as a guest columnist.</p>
<p>If I emd up not taking ap econ, would colleges care if I take econ in summerschool and replace the school year course with an english elective such as journalism? Keep in mind I also have a full year of studio art next year (i am an extremely creative person). But that's 2 full elective credits! Is that slacking???</p>
<p>Option 1
AP Calc BC
AP English
GBBE (prereq for AP bio senior yr)
French 3
AP Econ
Studio Art</p>
<p>Option 2
AP Calc BC
AP English
Econ
World 1
GBBE
French 3
Studio Art</p>
<p>Option 3
AP Calc BC
AP English
Journalism
Studio Art
French 3
GGBE</p>
<p>Sorry I know i'm ranting.</p>
<p>Thanks all.</p>