<p>AP Calculus (AB)
AP Physics
AP Statistics
AP Government
AP Literature
Advanced Math Research
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<p>More than enough. Most engineering programs ASSUME that a potential student will start with Calculus I during the Fall of Freshman year. Calculus II is Spring of Freshman year. Physics I,II is sophomore year (can be started Spring of Freshman sometimes). That Statistics course probably will not count because engineering statistics must have Calculus I or II as a prerequisite.</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB may give you up to a semester of calculus credit. Note that university level math will go at about twice the pace of AP Calculus AB.</p>
<p>AP Physics B will typically give no useful subject credit for an engineering major. AP Physics C may give some credit (more likely for mechanics than E&M).</p>
<p>AP Statistics will typically give no useful subject credit for an engineering major. If statistics is required, it will likely be a calculus-based statistics course that is required.</p>
<p>AP Government and AP Literature may give some breadth requirement credit.</p>
<p>I took AP Statistics my senior year and it was a nice foundation of the basics of statistics, but like they have said ^, the statistics you take in engineering is calculus-based. It has very similar base concepts that you learn about in AP Stat, but not the same content by far.</p>
<p>Took AP stats junior year. Got a 4. Didn’t count for college credit since I had to take calculus based stats, but it helped A LOT still. I got an A in college stats thanks to AP stats.</p>
<p>I don’t care if it counts for college credit, I’m just concerned if it will look rigorous enough if I want to major in engineering</p>
<p>To answer your question…it’s more than enough. The key for engineering is making sure that you have taken high school Physics and taken enough high school math so that you can start off with Calculus I as a freshman. AP credits are just extra and does not factor into if one can handle engineering.</p>
<p>Oh okay, thank you globaltraveler</p>
<p>I took calc AB and physics b as a junior. I didn’t really expect college credit even though I passed both tests but I took them more so for when I take calc 1 and physics 1 I will have a solid foundation. I know college classes are harder than HS but having these classes will undoubtedly give u a leg up in college. As for AP gove, I took that not for college credit but just for a better understanding of politics, I actually enjoy politics now that I understand it from AP gov.</p>
<p>I like how everyone on this forum is always underestimating their classes and assumes engineering is so rigurous that it requires intensive training… I feel like I’m talking to people from another planet when I’m on here cause I don’t know of any high schools around me that have students like the people on here</p>
<p>Look, I did not study once in high school, rarely did homework, and didn’t even take precalculus or physics in high school. My high school did not even have ap classes. I will be graduating with an engineering degree in 4 years with a good gpa. High school doesn’t mean anything. It will help to have had some background, but you don’t need any of it. I think its funny how I did nothing but have fun the whole time in high school and I am in no way disadvantaged because of it.</p>
<p>Ziggy, based on your previous posting on 4-2011, you are in a community college I guess planning on transferring to Rutgers. Many students here are aiming to start at colleges where they are competing against others who have taken all those AP classes. </p>
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<p>I think Ziggy has touched on something. For certain engineering and definitely computer science programs, there is not a competition. The programs are constructed on the basis of a incoming student having no AP credits. It’s more about the student completing the program, getting decent grades and getting the skills that are in demand.</p>
<p>If I am evaluating two lightly-experienced candidates for a Java or Oracle software engineering position, I want see their prior experience and if they have the required education. I am not factoring in whether one graduated faster than the other or had 100 AP credits or their ages. I need to know who can develop some software on time and with the quality.</p>
<p>Definitely cannot do that in the cleared/INTEL world…then you have to go back to your VP of Program Management explaining why this other defense contractor filled up the positions and we did not.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, my college requires freshmen engineers to finish the calc sequence (ie be done with calc 3 before starting sophomore year). And all of the engineers take & finish physics as freshmen.</p>
<p>I only know of one or two (out of 250 freshmen engineers) who didn’t start in calc II; to catch up they had to take calc 3 over the summer.</p>
<p>But to get to the topic- your schedule is more than fine; probably a bit over the top as others have said. But if you can (and want to) handle it, go right ahead.</p>
<p>To be honest, I think unless you are getting all A’s in those AP classes and 5’s on your AP exams, it is probably best to retake Calc and Physics in college because it moves so much faster. What getting ahead in HS does is just that, lets you learn those subjects so in college you get a second pass to make sure you really have a strong base for future learning. </p>
<p>If you are a business major or in some other field where you don’t need calc or physics then go ahead and use your AP credit.</p>
<p>I agree with Johnson181 it seems like a heavy load for senior year with nothing light or fun to look forward to.</p>
<p>Are you kidding? I would have been thrilled if my school offered even half of those classes. I would have loved to have that schedule.<br>
I wish my high school had offered even half of those courses.</p>
<p>Lakemom you are correct. I went to CC because it was free and once you have a job it doesn’t matter where you went to school so that was the best option. I’m going to Rutgers for the same reason. Those classes might look good on applications, but they aren’t going to do much for you once your in. Some might count as credits though which would be a bonus.</p>
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<p>Some schools’ admissions committees may be more concerned about whether you took the most advanced courses available to you at your high school. If you took 3 AP courses at a high school that only offered 3 AP courses, that may look better than if you took 3 AP courses at a high school that offered 12 AP courses (especially if you took the “lesser” AP courses like Statistics, Physics B, and Environmental Science instead of Calculus BC, English Literature, and Physics C).</p>
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<p>Which school? I only know of three schools that do that, and they compress what is normally a year long freshman calculus sequence into one semester.</p>
<p>Well I think we’ve confirmed that it is a good enoiugh schedule for engineering. Overkill in my opinion, but if doing as much school work as you can makes you happy then go for it. </p>
<p>My senior schedule was: Gym, English, Co-op, FUN</p>
<p>ucbalumnus- WashU. I’m trying to find where it says you have to be done with calc III by the end of freshmen year, but no luck so far (probably because they haven’t posted the freshmen info yet for 2015).</p>
<p>There isn’t any compression- you just start with Calc II at a minimum (I swear I don’t know a single student here at WashU who didn’t take at least Calc AB… even all of the language majors I know took it).</p>
<p>It’s not necessarily mandatory, per se, but it is strongly pushed/recommended.</p>