<p>I go to a private, college prep school. I'm finishing my junior year and getting ready to select my senior year classes. My school offers some AP/Honors/Advanced courses, but not as many as others. I see some people on here taking, like, several APs. Since my school classes are generally quite rigorous anyway, taking only 2 APs is considered quite loaded, with 3 to 4 APs becoming extreme. Next year, my school will offer, for advanced and AP courses, the following:</p>
<p>AP Literature and Writing
AP Spanish
AP US History
AP Politics
AP Calculus AB
AP Art
Advanced Chemistry
Advanced Art
Advanced Journalism</p>
<p>I'm taking...</p>
<p>Precalculus</p>
<p>AP Spanish</p>
<p>Creative writing/Connections(both are semester courses that when taken together make a full year course)</p>
<p>Advanced Journalism</p>
<p>Advanced Art</p>
<p>AP Literature and Writing</p>
<p>Masterwork</p>
<p>My school has recently instated a masterwork program. In the program, students must create something that they have a passion for, while incoroportating something they've learned in highschool. One guy this year is writing a two act play, another guy is making a small art exhibition to be accommpanied by some music he writes, etc. Masterworks show individuality, creativity, and passion. For my potential masterwork, I plan on creating a 150-200 page manga book, which is like a comic book. I will create the story and art myself, and eventually, create a published book. Since I like art, english, and media publications so much, I thought it would be a cool way to culminate all my interests into one masterwork.</p>
<p>ANYWAY, enough of me rambling. What do you think?</p>
<p>You have taken large numbers of courses in appropriate areas that interest you, so there are no problems, assuming you are attempting to enter the humanities in college.</p>
<p>It looks like a hard schedule to me. Any AP language class will be undoubtedly hard, unless of course you are a native speaker. The writing class will obviously require you to spend alot of time writing. Journalism is the same; lots of writing and lots of work to make sure you meet deadlines. Art will most likely require you to work outside of school on unfinished pieces, and that is very time consuming. And to put the topping on the cake, you have AP Lit, which I assume is reading-intensive. It just looks like a courseload heavy on work, but if you really think you can handle it, then disregard everything I said. :D</p>
<p>Does anyone think it's worth removing one of the above classes and taking AP US History instead? My dad seems to think that I have too many writing classes, and having more history would look good, even though I've already fulfilled my history credit requirement and have taken some IMO, wortwhile history classes (World History, European History, US History). I tend to belive that I should make it clear to colleges the areas I have interest in whilst pursuing challenging classes, which the above schedule seems to demonstrate pretty well.</p>
<p>it would be really good if you could somehow take calculus...does your school have an honors calculus course? you could take precalc during the summer...i think it might be slightly more appealing for adcoms, even though you're a humanities type person like myself.</p>
<p>I haven't heard of those, either... and I -take- APUSH!</p>
<p>I would take AP Euro in place of APUSH. That's only because I hate APUSH, though, and have made it my mission to warn all potential APUSH students about the horror of that class =P</p>
<p>From APUSH 2006, there were 4 FRQs, 2 of which you had to attempt. They are more limited in focus compared to the DBQ. I think the prompts are arguable and good explanation following few examples is of course much better than showing your ability to memorize facts.</p>
<p>I believe that the 2 FRQs combined are worth the same as the DBQ. They pretty much saved my ass last year (seriously, a century of women and the concept of republican motherhood ***).</p>