Help choosing my schedule for senior year

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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I’m gonna be a senior next school year and we have to make our schedules this week. This is what I’m thinking:

Period 1: AP Calculus AB or BC

Period 2: College Spanish (we can take it in HS for college credit, it’s a step below AP)

Period 3: AP Gov / AP Macro (both are every other day)

Period 4: Lunch

Period 5: English electives (mandatory)

Period 6: APES or other science AP

Period 7: APES or other science AP / off

Period 8: AP Human Geography or AP Stat

Period 9: Health / Gym (both mandatory)

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I have a few questions about my planned schedule

  1. Should I take Calculus AB or BC, what’s the difference?

  2. Should I take AP Human geography or AP stat?

  3. I’m taking AP Bio this year, would APES be a good follow up or should I take a different science? (I’m taking regents Physics this year because I didn’t want to take 2 AP sciences at once)

  4. Are there any other APs that I should take senior year? Any other schedule changes I should make?

All feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

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  1. Calc BC in this instance since it sounds like you have the choice, matches Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 in a semester-based college. Calc AB is taking a traditional semester-based Calculus 1 class in college and extending it out thorough a whole year. Usually how schools do it is if you got an A in pre-Calc, you should take BC, otherwise take AB.

  2. neither class is all that useful but if you had to choose, take AP Stats. Always good to have some stats background.

  3. for the top students, an AP Physics of some sort or AP Chem if you haven’t taken that would be a lot more preferable to APES.

  4. AP English Lit should be considered but depending on teacher is a very demanding class. It depends a lot also on what you did in 11th grade English - did you take AP Eng Lang?

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Based on the curriculum suggested in http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/2055289-faq-high-school-college-prep-base-curriculum.html , are you currently missing anything? If so, will you cover what is missing in your senior year schedule?

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Have you already taken Chemistry?

Not sure what you mean by regents Physics? Is that just a test or an actual course?

What is your planned major in college?

Regarding Calc AB or BC, I agree that it would depend how well you did in Pre-Calc, and how easy or difficult you found it.