<p>I really want to do pre-med at wash u but I will not be able to take high school physics. We only have regular (not honors or ap) physics and the teacher isn't so great. I am wondering if I should test out of the class so I have it on my transcript, but this is a lot of work that i really don't want to do unless it will make or break my admission chances.<br>
high school courses I have taken:
Freshman year:
hon bio:A
hon eng: A
geometry: A
us history: A
health: A
orchestra: A
french 1: A
speech: A</p>
<p>soph:
hon chem: A
hon eng: A
hon world hist: A
alg 2: A
french 2: A
orch: A
web design: A</p>
<p>junior:
ap chem: A (4 or 5 on ap exam)
ap language and comp: A (taking exam next year)
ap gov: A (guessing 5 on ap exam)
pre-calc: A
advanced speech: A
orch: A</p>
<p>senior year (plan to take):
ap bio
ap psych
ap literature
ap calc
orch</p>
<p>act: 35</p>
<p>Will having physics really be that important? I am not going to drop any of my other classes to take it but I will try to test out if it is absolutely neccessary for my admission chances.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. You have 4 years of high school science, including 2 years of AP. That’s all they really expect of anyone. Testing out of it to get credit would look nice, but its completely extra.</p>
<p>I don’t think taking physics is the end all be all, but it would like nice. If you have all AP sciences though I don’t think it will be a deal-breaker for you.</p>
<p>Your senior schedule seems really light, maybe take physics at a community college. Not that physics itself is a big deal, but taking classes that aren’t offered at your school looks good on an application.</p>
<p>thanks! yeah I was thinking that testing out would be a bit too much work when I only have a month to do it and I don’t want to ruin my summer. I might do it at the community college if I have the time and it doesn’t conflict with my extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’ll be a big deal.</p>
<p>I don’t think 4 APs is light. Is Calc AB or BC?</p>
<p>There’s pretty much nothing besides the four AP’s though, and AP Psych hardly counts.</p>
<p>Every course he/she is taking is AP and his/her school only offer regular physics, which leads me to believe his/her school doesn’t have many AP offerings either.</p>
<p>The only red flag I see is that you don’t have a social studies or history-type class. Does your school maybe offer AP Econ or something?</p>
<p>He/she took AP Gov junior year and a history class in both freshman and sophomore year.</p>
<p>I’m taking calc ab.
and for social studies, our school considers psych s.s. we also have ap euro and ap microecon. Ap euro is usually the same hr as orchestra and I really like the psych teacher.
and our school has trimesters (5 hrs in a day) so unless I dropped orch (which I won’t) I can’t possibly take any more.
and I’m a she, lol :)</p>
<p>Oh lol my school considers… or considered it might have recently changed… psych a science but if your school considers it a social science I think that’s fine. There’s no reason to drop Orchestra.</p>
<p>Let’s just say, if you don’t get into WashU, it won’t be because your schedule is too light :). Yes, of course, the more ambitious the schedule, the better, but your schedule is fine.</p>