<p>Hi everyone, next year I will be a junior and I will be taking these classes in school:</p>
<p>AP laguage and Comp.
Pre-calc Honors
AP Chemistry
APUSH
AP Euro
AP Psychology
AP Statistics</p>
<p>I am also self studying AP COparative Governemnt and have already started. I have very good ECs, GPA, etc.</p>
<p>However, school is very competitive and my current rank is 20/586 and I was wondering if I should take AP Microeconomics online. I'm not specifically talking about workload, but do you guys think that colelges would see this as way too much, or would it only help me? Thanks!</p>
<p>It depends on your school, some schools are easier than others. However, I recommend that you focus more on the courses you are taking in school instead of taking another course online. When colleges say that they want you to take a demanding schedule, they don’t mean that you take a specific number of APs, they want you to take the hardest courses offered at your school. I also don’t think they want you completely overload your schedule with classes, they prefer quality over quantity. Take the normal number of classes but choose the most challenging ones. So for example one math, one language, one history, one science, and one english. During my junior year of high school I took AP Calculus BC, AP English Language, AP U.S. History, Honors Biology (I took AP Chem and Physics C senior year) and Honors Spanish (took AP senior year).</p>
<p>I mean Poeme is right, I took the classes because they told me I could not survive. now I have a 90 (100 weighted) in AP English and I came to the US freshman year. you have to be hard headed and sacrifice your social life! If you dont, you wont have time for your ECs! I am the president/ VP of 4 clubs, and I was voted “the most well known in the school.” so you will be fine. I think there are two kinds of AP kids, one who work very very very hard and get an A, which is pointless. And there are people like me, who don’t belong, but yet learn better. I have never studied for AP USH, never! I didnt even take college prep! I took classical history before, I now have a 92 (102 weighted)in that class, It is not about studying hard, it is about wanting it. You have to do it for a cause not because you think it will get you in. Just because you can dose not mean you must. think about why you are taking those classes. you can drop out the first two weeks off the record, so go for it.</p>
<p>Well… I could manage that schedule but it would not be easy especially junior year. You may want to take out two or three and save those for senior year. BTW I noticed this thread is one the Penn forum. Are you planning on applying when we start the process a year from now?</p>
<p>No, I actualy posted it in the yale first, but then I checked this one to see if someone had commented but clicked on the penn one instead and thought I hadn’t posted it so i put it again. But yeah, I just wanted to get your input</p>
<p>I agree with collegeboundJon. If you’re thinking about taking 7 APs next year, it’s gonna get hectic. I only took 5 this year, and Chem and Studio Art made everything insane. You should probably save some for senior year, unless you genuinely think you can handle the workload, especially when May rolls around.</p>
<p>Well, if you think you can handle all these subjects and still add one, then by all means do it. But make sure to follow a schedule when it comes to your studies so you won’t feel the work load.</p>
<p>The most important thing is that you are challenging yourself, but not so much that you don’t get good grades. If you think you can handle that schedule then go with it. If you think your GPA will take a hit then maybe it isn’t worth it. I don’t know how it works at your school, but my school offered barely any APs so I took the normal classes then studied for the AP tests on my own with a Princeton Review book, which took a total of 4 hours of learning the things my normal classes didn’t cover the day before the test.
Maybe you could always do something like that?</p>