<p>I'm currently a sophomore, and my courseload is:
AP Computer Science, AP Macroeconomics, Honors Chemistry, Algebra 2, Spanish III, and English (there's no honors english course).</p>
<p>I'm considering dropping my Computer Science class, after getting a B+ first quarter. I go to one of the top 15 private schools in the world, and a B+ here is basically an A anywhere else. </p>
<p>We're about halfway through the second quarter at the moment, and my grades have been in about the same range, but this course is causing me a ton of stress both because I'm taking the hardest courseload possible and that this class is taking up a great amount of time and energy which could be invested somewhere else. I also feel like my understanding of the material is dwindling, and that the upcoming midterm might not result well for me.</p>
<p>The teacher right now is pregnant and has missed several days of class due to random sicknesses. Her teaching methods really aren't very helpful to me.</p>
<p>The class is an entire year AP. Rather than take this class, which I loathe going to every day, for the rest of the year, I could take another half-year AP in something that I am actually interested in. So that's my dilemma.</p>
<p>Now, what would colleges think of my dropping the course like this? Would it really screw me over to drop it? Keep in mind that if I were to drop it, I would have more time for my other classes and I would be replacing the CS course with another half-year AP. I'm just worried that a "Withdrawn" on my report card for only one quarter would really screw me over under these circumstances. My teacher does not have the energy to help me understand material most of the time because of her pregnancy and the fact that she's been absent for several days already puts me in a crappy position.</p>
<p>So how will colleges react to my dropping this course?</p>
<p>But the other side is that you're a sophomore with 2 APs.</p>
<p>Honestly, if you're only in sophomore year and it's a choice between being happy or being unhappy and not getting good grades, I'd change the class...but hey, you never know. If you think you can stand the class and can continue getting high B's, you can keep it around; if it's really that bad (I wouldn't give this advice later in high school), changing it seems like a fair option.</p>
<p>The CS class is causing me a ton of stress, and I could be taking another AP when the 2nd semester begins and do really well in it. I don't like CS, it's monotonous and boring. It takes up more time than any other class of mine, and it's only going to get harder as the year progresses.</p>
<p>So I think I'm going to drop it in order to take another AP when the 2nd semester begins. But what will colleges think of my dropping this course? It would only show up on my 2nd quarter report card.</p>
<p>what do u mean top 15 high school in the world?
andover exeter, choate, deerfield, st pauls hotchkiss, middlesex, lawrenceville taft, milton, groton, thatcher, cate, loomis...these are the tops...is it one of them?</p>
<p>well i mean u hv to judge it in context i dunno wut school you are talking about...but the listed are known to be the best of the best of the best</p>
<p>Stress isn't good so early in high school. As long as this would be the only class you drop so late in the year, and you score well on the AP test, I doubt it would be reflected that poorly on you. Again, it's only sophomore year. A lot of schools don't look at your soph grades in details, although they'll look at your soph GPA.</p>