<p>Next year I'm taking:
Physics C
Calc AB
Stat
Lit
Micro
Macro
U.S. Gov
Comparative Gov</p>
<p>This along with college spanish.</p>
<p>I have no frees in my senior schedule, is this overdoing it? I mean I'm aiming for ivies, so do I need to continue to rigor? If I needed to drop a class, which one would you recommend?</p>
<p>Yes this is alright. The standard combination at my school is Physics C/Biology, Calc BC, Chemistry, Stats, Micro, Macro. </p>
<p>U.S. Gov and Comp Gov shouldn’t be bad.</p>
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<p>Look up the universities and majors you are considering to see what AP courses’ credit can actually be used. If you need to drop one, drop the one whose credit will be the least useful.</p>
<p>Calculus and English are the most commonly useful for credit and placement into more advanced courses, but even these are not universally accepted.</p>
<p>drop stats, its useless. If not stats, then comparative govt. Your schedule may be overkill. Trust me, 7 ap’s and college class is definitely most rigorous. You still have college apps and maybe retake SAT/ACT(?), also EC’s and time to sleep(yes, i hate to break it to you, but you are human 
In my opinion, it would be better if you had 6 ap’s and the college course. For example, you could drop stats and comparitive govt., then decide later if you want to self study comp. govt., depending on how much time and senioritis you have. Just another option to think about. Plus, don’t forget but you do have to submit a mid-year report.</p>
<p>If any, I would drop Stats.</p>
<p>My son is looking at a similar schedule. In his case it is AP English lang, Calc AB, Spanish lang, Comparative Govt and Stats or Music theory plus honors physics and band. He will only be a sophomore but in most cases this is just the next course in the sequence that he is taking ie. He’s in pre-cal, Honors Eng 10, AP World and Spanish 4 already and he’s a strong math student, reader and musician. At his school his choices are APs or regular and the APs aren’t especially rigorous. Only about 20% of the students take them and only about 50% of those score 3 or higher. I’m thinking his schedule won’t be too bad but I wonder how hard the studying will be next spring. Do you think this is too much? He’ll be preparing for AP World and Env’t Sci this spring.</p>
<p>Apollo: World isn’t too bad and Environment is easy to prepare, he should focus a little more on world. </p>
<p>I want to be an economist/financial analyst so I heard stat is important to that, is it really not that useful?</p>
<p>You’re taking gov and comp gov? I thought that was redundant since first quarter or so does the material from normal gov and you take both tests for comp gov anyway? at least in my school.</p>
<p>Comparative and us gov are two completely diff subjects. I don’t believe they would repeat material since the u.s isn’t studied in comparative</p>
<p>Change them into</p>
<p>Physics C
Calc BC
Lit
Micro
Macro
U.S. Gov
Comparative Gov</p>
<p>Stat Dropped</p>
<p>Really? My school teaches us govt and then the new comp govt stuff in the same comp gov class and students have to take both exams…</p>
<p>Yup, i guess our schools are different. So any suggestions?</p>
<p>It’s not too many. I am taking the same amount of APs Junior year and I am finding it quite manageable. Stats is not entirely useless if you enjoy math. Keep in mind though, senior year you will be applying to college and that will take up a lot of your energy.</p>
<p>Are any of them semester courses? If not, how are you even taking this many classes in one year?</p>
<p>Stats isn’t useless, it’s actually quite useful, but there is very little material, so it is better to self study if you don’t want to be bored. if you don’t care, take it i suppose</p>
<p>I highly recommend taking Calc BC instead of AB though. Drop something else to make it happen, if you need to</p>
<p>@Apollo6: If he is strong in math as you say he should take Calculus BC</p>
<p>I would drop lit. In many places, it has a very heavy workload and if you’re not a humanities kind of person, it will be tedious. Also, unlike someone said above, me and some of my teachers have actually seen that there are many colleges that do not give credit for AP english lang/lit and composition courses. Maybe it’s because a lot of colleges, like harvard for example, have freshman writing seminars to get kids “up to snuff” on how to write for college.</p>
<p>Colleges like to see 4 years of English, do not drop lit.</p>
<p>Micro/macro and us/comparative are alternating courses. And I can’t drop lit bc I need another English to graduate.</p>
<p>I meant dropping lit for a regular english class. Isn’t there a normal english 12 or something?</p>
<p>its college credit english instead of a.p. if I drop</p>