<p>Hi everyone, I am now a Grade 11 student in Appleby College in Canada. I have some problems with courses selection for next year. I want to go for business major or economic. Please advice me some course I do need to choose. </p>
<p>For Grade 11 I choosed:
Dramatic Arts
Media Arts
Accounting
American History
English
Mandarin
Advanced Functions (AP)
Physics </p>
<p>For Grade 12 I can choose 6 courses and English is mandatory. So I sort out several courses that I could choose:</p>
<p>World History (AP)
Economics (AP)
Pycology (AP)
Physics (AP) or Physics (grade 12)
Accouting (grade 12)
International Business (Grade 12)</p>
<p>Math:
Statics (AP)
Calculus (AP)</p>
<p>Political Science
Canadian Law</p>
<p>My math teacher advice me to choose AP Cal, but I would like to choose statics as I heard it helps for studing Econ a lot. However, my math teacher the loads of two AP math courses are incredibly high. So I am conidering whether choose both of them or just choose AP Cal.</p>
<p>Also, I have a little problems with majors choosing. I would like to do things like financial investment. But I heard it is not a big deal with undergraduate major choosing. I want to apply for school such as U of Michigan, NYU. Do anyone have other recomanded colleges?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!! You could know more about my school by this website:</p>
<p>Appleby</a> College: Curriculum Guide</p>
<p>statics
is statistics</p>
<p>Anybody can help me?</p>
<p>i would take AP Calc. because it will make college calc. wayyyyy easier. stats should be an easy course in university anyways (not as hard as calc./physics, and such courses). so if you have to choose only one, take calc…at least i would.</p>
<p>Wait…I’m confused. Aren’t you allowed 8 courses per year (6x4 = 24 -> not enough credits to graduate).</p>
<p>Don’t take your spares (or just take one spare) and load up on another course…</p>
<p>^I think he’s taking seven in Gr.12 (choosing 6 + mandatory English) and he took 8 in Gr.11.</p>
<p>@calvin: I think taking both AP stat and AP Calc would be very helpful for university and your major. Though if you’re not very strong in math, perhaps consider taking only one.</p>
<p>For college, Wharton @ UPenn has a very good reputation as a business school, but I think it’s geared more toward practical application (i.e. how to make money) than theoretical economics.</p>
<p>Sorry. Disregard my last comment; I misread the post. </p>
<p>Take both maths, don’t take international business (IMHO economics is better). If you don’t want 8 courses, then drop Psych.</p>
<p>Well, I think I need to prepare for the application stuff during grade 12 so I don’t want to take 7 courses which will give me to much load. I took 8 courses now.</p>
<p>Somebody advise me to take Canadian Law which will make me a “well-round” person. Is it really?</p>
<p>I will come here everyday ask for help…Thanks everyone…</p>
<p>Dump accounting and international business. You’ll learn all you need later in college and the HS level is pointless. What you need right now is to drastically improve your English skills to be competitive and do well at your future college: so replace those courses with ones that will require you to write a ton in English.</p>
<p>don’t I need to write a lot for international Business?</p>
<p>I need to decide my 7 courses today. So could anyone help?</p>
<p>ViggyRam is right that statistics can wait: intro stats is a pretty painless course at university, and you’ll get a more thorough introduction anyway. Just take AP Calc and do well in it, because then you can place out of the tedious intro calc courses at university.</p>
<p>And listen to what Starbright says; he’s so right (not surprisingly). Dump Accounting and International Business, which are really joke courses, and take Canadian Law and Political Science, which force you to think and write critically. Take them to make you a more “well-rounded” person, but also consider what Starbright said and take them because they give you practice writing papers. Also, if you plan to take social science courses at university, it will help to write something other than English papers in high school.</p>
<p>Thanks, but would I get very low average on Canadian law and Political Science? Should I take AP Econ and AP Physics then?</p>
<p>Someone help me plz, I really need to figure it out to9…</p>
<p>World History (AP)
Economics (AP)
Physics (AP)
Calculus (AP)
Political Science
Psych (AP)
Canadian Law
English</p>
<p>You should have at least one science. The other courses should be essay/writing heavy and should help you improve your english…</p>
<p>Don’t take your spare and do your application essays over the summer.</p>
<p>One thing nobody has mentioned is the lack of a foreign language course in your proposed schedule. All the top schools recommend four years of a foreign language, so if you’ve taken one the past three years, you would do well to continue with it. It’s not going to make or break your application, though.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I can only choose 7 courses for my grade 12… And as a Chinese, I have already taken grade12 Mandarin this year, so…</p>
<p>The choose either Poli Sci or Law. One of them =/</p>