<p>I am balancing a my Senior Schedule with soccer, key club, drums, my own volunteer work and personal training.</p>
<p>So with that in mind...Is my schedule too easy? Will Washu look down upon me for my Senior Year Schedule?</p>
<p>-DVD Yearbook (Possible major in journalism/communications/ looking into film studies so I don't want to drop this.)
-AP Econ
-AP Lang
-AP Spanish
-WG Intro. to Engineering
-WG Pre-Calculus
-Physics</p>
<p>Any thoughts and/or recommendations would be very much appreciated. :)</p>
<p>Unless someone here is familiar with your high school, none of us can really answer this. What matters is how hard your schedule is in regards to the hardest possible schedule at your school. </p>
<p>For example, lets take 2 imaginary students. Both have 4 AP classes by the time they graduate, 5’s on every test. However, one student only had those 4 AP classes offered at their school while the other had 15 AP classes offered. The second student will be looked on in a less favorable light, since they had more opportunities to challenge themselves, but didn’t.</p>
<p>In your case, if there is AP Physics offered, WashU would like to see you take that. Especially if it is Physics B, which isn’t as difficult as Physics C. </p>
<p>If I have to pass judgement, I would say that its a very average schedule for a WashU-bound student, neither particularly impressive or particularly weak.</p>
<p>Thank you for your thoughts. I have been considering AP Physics B for a while now. There are at least 15 AP’s offered at my school so I will have 9 AP Tests completed (hopefully all 5’s) by the time I graduate.</p>
<p>I’m just curious, why are you only taking pre-calc? Everyone I know who I’ve talked to except maybe 2 people have taken calculus and quite a few took it in their junior year. It’s fine if your school only offers pre-calc, but in general I think that looks a little odd. I also don’t believe Wash U has a journalism major and I think communications is “communication design” and only offered in the art school. You can probably get the same jobs as people who majored in those things with other majors, but if you’re dead-set on those majors I don’t think Wash U is the school for you.</p>
<p>Not completely deadset on those majors but I am very interested. My primary degree would be in business though and that’s why I am truly choosing Washu for its Olin School of Business. I would like to look into Film and Media Studies while I am there. and I am taking Pre-Calc because I made a mistake my freshman year and took a regular math course instead of honors because I feared the course load and the wrok rate of the class. The math classes I ahve been in have been very easy and I wish I would have changed courses earlier in order to take a higher level math path. Will this severly hurt my Washu chances?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, every piece of Wash U literature suggests that they are looking for people who have taken the most advanced courses available, so if there is a higher level math track, it could very well hurt your chances…</p>
<p>Hmmmm. Well it’s not the lowest math track as I am still a year ahead of many students but again it is not the highest math track either.</p>
<p>Can you take AP physics? I think if you have lower level math but have everything else as difficult as possible, it won’t hurt you. Also, if you’re into those majors, why are you taking intro to engineering? I would fill it with another AP if possible. If your school offers AP Gov or AP psych, those are relatively easy APs.</p>
<p>DVD yearbook and Intro to Engineering won’t be considered classes. AP Econ is a joke of a class. So is normal physics, and to an extent pre calc as a senior. Thus you are only taking 2 real classes, when you should be taking at least 4-5 real classes.</p>
<p>So yes, it is too easy.</p>
<p>What you can do is try to take pre-calc over the summer at an online program. Then you can go into Calculus during your school year.</p>
<p>I took Intro. to Engineering as a GPA booster class. I have already taken AP Government and am considering AP Physics. I will not likely be taking Pre-Calculus over the internet this summer so that is probably out of the question. Math has always been my weaker subject, but I am hoping in order to get into Film Studies and Business that the math won’t be as heavily weighed compared to how it is in a Science major. AP Psych could be a possibility. Again, I want to balance my academic life and extracurricular life. How heavily are Senior year classes weighed when compared to GPA and ACT?</p>
<p>If those are the classes you want to take (and since it doesn’t look like you’re slacking off from a quick glance), I think you’re completely fine. I have friends who took 7 APs senior year and ones who took none, some people got 1900s on the SAT, while others got mid-2300s. When they say it’s holistic, they mean it. Don’t stress.</p>