<p>I'm a junior starting to think about my schedule for senior year. I keep hearing conflicting things about what colleges expect out of your senior year. My friends all tell me that you can slack off a little bit, and take a few easier classes, while everyone on here seems to have really hard senior schedules!</p>
<p>challenge yourself. colleges will see right through schedules that are easier than what you have been taking. now, can you have a couple blowoffs? sure, but dont go from honors/APs to honors/regs.</p>
<p>I guess it really depends. Some people continue taking harder courses as the years progress while others expand to more electives.</p>
<p>My junior year was probably the hardest year with 5 APs and the rest honors. By senior year I went down to 2 APs and the rest were electives I didn't get the chance to pursue earlier. I'm taking art, music, and politics electives out of pure enjoyment. I've even taken up a free period, something I've never done.</p>
<p>Take what you like. If that means choosing courses that aren't "college level", but are enjoyable for you then by all means take them. Worked out for me at least.</p>
<p>It is my senior year right now, and i am taking 6 ap classes. This is honestly the worst decision i have ever made in my high school career. I have to spend so much time just for my classes it is ridiculous. I would advise challenging yourself in your senior year, but don't over do it.</p>
<p>Do you think that its important that I take AP Calc? Because that class is supposed to be ridiculously hard in my school, so I was thinking of taking slightly easier AP Stat. However, some people have told me that colleges want you to take Calc and will hold it against you if you don't, but I intend to major to Neuroscience, so I feel like Statistics would be more useful...</p>
<p>Is three honors and an AP slacking off too much?</p>
<p>What kind of college do you want to attend?
You don't have to take all AP courses to even get into Ivies.
Many state schools don't care whether or not you take AP/IB as long as you take a college prep curriculum and have the grades, scores that the college requires.
If you attend to major in neuroscience or any science, I think you need to take AP calc, but you may wish to contact the neurosci departments at the colleges you're considering and ask for their advice.</p>
<p>Yeah just make sure you do your best. Do what you want to do for your future in college and for the rest of your life. I suggest that you do take challenging courses, but there's no need to burden your self with tons of rigor. You could still have fun in life and challenge yourself at the same time! </p>
<p>good luck! =]</p>
<p>I'm not sure how well I can do in AP Calc though... I mean at best I might be able to get a B+ (and even that is a little doubtful), whereas in AP Stat I could probably get an A... they are both AP classes, so which do you think is better?</p>
<p>AP Stat is generally known as one of the, if not the easiest AP class ever. In my school it's a running joke that AP stat is AP Study. If you take AP Stat and no other AP classes, you might want to reconsider. But of course this all depends on what kind of schools you plan to apply to. If you are going to apply to a very selective school, calc would benefit you greatly. </p>
<p>You could always just try the class in the beginning of next year and if it becomes too hard drop it. If you think you can get an A no problem in AP Stat, getting a B+ in calc shouldn't be too hard either.</p>
<p>It's all relative to what's offered by your school.</p>
<p>If you've taken rigorous courses in the past and have done well, there shouldn't be a need to slack off. However, dropping a few classes wouldn't hurt.</p>
<p>Just make sure you occupy that extra time with SOMETHING that can be demonstrated in your resume.</p>
<p>why are you trying to slack anyways? you should want to challenge yourself as much as possible...</p>
<p>don't follow this challenging yourself spiel. you clearly are an accomplished student, and wasting away another 20 hours a week on some more unnecessary ap classes is not going to do anything.</p>
<p>join a club or get involved with something less demanding. the likelihood of u being accepted/rejected solely based on the fact that you took 1 or 2 less demanding classes senior year compared to your fellow students will matter very very little, if at all.</p>
<p>have. fun. this is school, nobody cares.</p>
<p>yes im not going to correct grammar. sue me. XD</p>
<p>I think that slacking off in senior year might have been a given at one time, but right now its more of a myth. College admissions have become very, very competitive at every level. Overall, schools are becoming more selective because the number of applicants outweigh the number of available seats. Unless you really slacked off in the past 3 years, you don't have to kill yourself senior year, but you should consider staying challenged. Its to your best advantage to be the best candidate possible, and the way admissions are today, that definitely means not totally slacking off senior year.</p>
<p>I don't mind challenging myself (I'm taking all possible honors and APs this year) but I'd also like to sleep... just throwing that out there. </p>
<p>Problem is that I'm taking Honors Trig Functions now and last quarter I got a C+ and this quarter I think I'm getting a B+ (so I brought it up but still my average is like a B/B-) so that's more of the issue. But if it will really give me that much of an edge I suppose I will try it...</p>
<p>I was going to definitly take Honors Physics, Honors History of Western Political Thought (which is very selective at my school), and AP Lit. I was also unsure of whether or not to take AP Spanish or just drop it because in Spanish V Honors, I've been getting an A, but that's because the class is really easy, and so you are screwed over once you get to AP.</p>
<p>What schools are you applying to?</p>
<p>for sure:
Pomona (ED I)
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Brandeis
Northeastern</p>
<p>Maybe:
Claremont McKenna
Boston U
University of Pittsburgh
Johns Hopkins</p>