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So, I’m taking a variety of classes - 4 ap classes including AP French, AP Lit, AP Bio, AP environmental, as well as honors civics/economics and Discrete Mathematics (a very easy statistics class). Last year I took Pre-Calculus honors and passed with a final average grade of 86. You need an 85 to take honors calc, so I took that as a warning and decided to downgrade and take discrete instead this year.
However, both my precal teacher from last year and the honors calc teacher this year were disappointed in me not challenging myself by taking honors calculus (and apparently honors calculus is a pretty chill class and easier than precal). I went to the administrator and asked if I could drop discrete and take honors calculus , but there’s only ONE honors calc class and it’s during the SAME PERIOD as AP French. We offer online classes but neither honors calc nor AP French is one of them.
So, that is my dilemma. Would it be better to take 4 AP classes but a very unrigorous math course after challenging myself every year with honors math courses? Or would it be better to take 3 AP classes but show that I’m continuing to challenge myself with an honors calculus class? Would a college look at my transcript and see that I went backwards in math and infer that I’m not a rigorous student?
Any input would be awesome.