How difficult will my junior year schedule be?

I’m currently a sophomore in high school and I am thinking about these classes for junior year:
AP English Language
AP US History
Chemistry or Anatomy Honors
French 2
Algebra 2 Honors
Studio Art
Journalism or AP Psych

not too difficult

Depends on how your grades are currently and how well you do in theses subjects, but it seems good. If possible, I personally would go for a more rigorous schedule (AP science, etc.), but unless you want to take math, science, or language classes over the summer to go up a level, then your schedule is great for levels you are in. I would recommend going for AP Psych instead of journalism, unless you really like journalism then you could do that instead. However with studio art already, it might be better to take more “academic” classes if that makes sense. Again, only if journalism isn’t your hobby or passion, because taking classes you enjoy is important as well. APUSH and AP Lang are great AP Classes to take.

AP English Language => strong class, will help with everything
AP US History => good
Chemistry or Anatomy Honors => pick chemistry, you need to have one each of bio, chem, and physics for selective colleges.
French 2 => see if you can take it at the honors level, and plan to keep going to level 3 or you’ll be barred from a bunch of selective universities
Algebra 2 Honors => good
Studio Art => good, colleges like it when a student is artistically educated
Journalism or AP Psych => depends on what you like best, either one is a good choice

Im a sophomore and im taking ap lang, apush, and ap psych just like you!

8.256 by my calculations

@MYOS1634

Do you think you could elaborate on that? I sort of understand why they would, but I would like a little clarification. :slight_smile:

Colleges like students who took one year of art for its sake (or more) , since it is one of the fields of knowledge (like math, English, science, foreign language history…) ; that’s why it can be a college graduation requirement too.

AP English Language: No personal experience in it, but I’ve heard that it’s easy if you’re a skilled writer.
AP US History: Took it last year, loved it. It’s very specific and memorization-based, but if you keep up with the work, you will do fine.
Chemistry or Anatomy Honors: Non-APs will depend on the school. Chem was a breeze for me.
French 2: Took it my freshman year. I had an egregiously terrible teacher but I managed to surface somewhat unscathed because the material itself is very manageable.
Algebra 2 Honors: Again, it depends. I generally have difficulty with math, but it wasn’t as bad as geometry was for me.
Studio Art: No clue. Probably easy.
Journalism or AP Psych: My friend self-studied AP Psych two days before the AP test and got a 5. Take that as what you will.

@Wolfgangbread have you ever taken an art class? They are often really hard and a lot of work, don’t put them down.

Art is art indeed, and requires very different skills than most classes in order to do well - which why some colleges on the common app allow for an extra recommendation by an art teacher.

@snowfairy137 Speaking only from my high school’s program (so I may be completely wrong, in which case I’m sorry): the only difficult art course we offer is AP Art (which is indeed a herculean course that requires immense talent and work). The other ones (including our Studio Art class) are complete jokes, requiring little to no effort. Again, my experience may differ completely for yours, in which case I’m sorry for being mistaken.

@Wolfgangbread I only took AP Photography (Studio Art 2D) and it was hard, but I know that my friend has taken other art classes and she’s a good artist and she spent a lot of time doing gart homework.

@snowfairy137 hm. I stand corrected. Apologies for my mistaken comments.