High School Schedule Question

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>I am a rising senior from NC.
I currently attend a school that operates on a block schedule with (mostly) year long AP classes - which can make it difficult to take a large number of APs in a year (just to point that out).
As a junior I have taken 2 APs (English lang and Chem) and 1 UNCG iSchool class.
As a senior I currently have my schedule set up to include 4 AP classes and a community college course (as shown below).
My question is would it be better to take a community college intense schedule next year (as outlined below) - which would earn a guaranteed 26 college credits that as far as I know should transfer to Chapel Hill, or would it be better, application wise, to stick with a heavy AP schedule?</p>

<p>My current schedule is set up as:
Year long AP English lit
Year long AP GOPO
Year long AP Human Geography
Semester long AP Psych
Semester long CC Stats</p>

<p>My possible considered schedule:
Semester long Psych 1 and 2 (I do not know the course numbers) for 6 credits
Semester long Calc 1 for 4 credits
Semester long Bio for 4 credits
Semester long Western Civ 1 and 2 for 6 credits
Year long AP GOPO
Semester long honors English 4 (required)
Semester long English 2 (college) for 3</p>

<p>So, which schedule would look better to Chapel Hill?
I can obviously tweak either schedule to make it the best chapel hill schedule if any of you have suggestions!</p>

<p>Also, will having been enrolled in the UNC system to take the UNCG iSchool course benefit me in any form when I apply at Chapel Hill or does it make no difference?
Thanks!</p>

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<p>I think the first schedule would be just fine as long as your grades are solid as far as getting into UNC goes. It’s important to consider too what these credits are going to be counting toward. Supposing you do well on your AP tests and they count for credits, some of your CC courses listed would be irrelevant. For example, depending on what you get on your AP english tests, you could get credit for english 101 and 102, so taking those in CC would be pointless. I would take AP psych instead of CC psych because I don’t think you need a 5 to get credit for that. I do think you should take CC bio and calc instead of human geography, especially if you’re planning to be a science major. So to get the most out of the credits you would receive, because it’s not just about the number of hours, it’s about the general education requirements those credits can fulfill, I would take: AP english, AP GOPO, AP psych, CC stats, and CC bio and/or calc</p>

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<p>All I can say…don’t ever take a yearlong human geo class. You will want to kill yourself. The content of the class is just bs and full of irrelevant examples and models of urban planning and terms that describe things that are common sense but don’t sound like it. You can learn it all on your own in probably 2 months of slack independent studying. I only really studied it for about 4-6 weeks during my yearlong AP World History /Human Geo class. Yearlong would be torture.</p>