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Applying to College
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<p>At my private boarding school... (so reasonably difficult courses):</p>

<p>Freshman Year: No APs. Honors Bio, Honors World History, Honors Algebra II, Honors
English, Honors Spanish</p>

<p>Sophomore Year: 3 APs. Honors Precalc, Honors Spanish, Honors English, Honors US
History, Honors Chemistry, Self-Study AP Psychology, Self-Study AP Environmental
Science, Self-Study AP Biology</p>

<p>Junior Year: 3+ APs. AP Chemistry, AP US History, AP Calculus BC, Spanish Honors,
Physics Honors, English Honors. Possible Self-Study APs, Open to Suggestion</p>

<p>Senior Year: 4/5 APs, 1 College Course. AP Physics, AP Art History, AP Spanish, AP
English, Multivariable Calculus, Human Anatomy & Physiology /AP Stat.</p>

<p>I wish I knew about self-studying APs earlier. I would have done Biology and Psych probably in ninth grade, and then Human Geography, Stat, English Language, etc. in 10th grade. </p>

<p>Anyways Should I self-study any classes in 11th grade? I plan on majoring in science - I have focus in the fields of medicine and journalism/English. Hence, I'm doing all the AP Sciences and AP Psychology. Should I do HAP in 12th grade or AP Stat... or do AP Stat as a self-study in 11th grade? </p>

<p>Also, I heard that it's better to have a transgression of difficulty... rather than doing 3 APs and 5 Honors classes in 10th grade and then doing 3 APs and 3 Honors Classes in 11th grade, shouldn't it be a little bit harder junior year? If so what APs should I self-study for eleventh grade? (Hopefully I can do maybe 2 and get the National AP Scholar Award). Do you think I should do AP Human Geography or AP English Language or AP Stat or any other suggestions? I refuse to do AP Euro or World. I hate history.</p>

<p>Lastly, how hard is this schedule? Is it what top-level universities and institutions consider to be "challenging?"</p>

<p>Thanks for reading another paranoid CCer's post. Hopefully you'll comment.</p>

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<p>Not sure about your other questions, but for your last one, “challenging” is related to the typical courseload at your school and what is available to you, not one solid model. Like, if most people at your school take five AP courses every year, your courseload wouldn’t be considered challenging. But if most people take one AP course only in senior year, your courseload would be very challenging. Colleges want to see what you do with the resources that you have.</p>

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<p>Normally, for the smarter kids, they tend to do 3-4 APs, sometimes 5. But that’s because they’re doing like AP Stat as opposed to Multivariable.</p>