<p>Ok people, I'm a senior who will be applying RD to all schools...maybe ED to an ivy or top20. My schedule is packed....I have 4 APs and 1 honors class, and 1 regular class. I have two periods off, but theres nothing beneficial open for those two periods so I left them empty, to leave room for studying. </p>
<p>Well I can either drop Spanish 5H (Not AP, I'd get smacked in the AP class), for PreCalc Honors, </p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>Take Pre Calc Regular (no honor, no AP), and still keep Spanish 5 Honors.</p>
<p>Essentially either way, I still have one 1 honors class, just maybe not a regular class. </p>
<p>I'd want pre-calc Honors, but I hear longevity in Spanish is much more powerful on a college app. </p>
<p>I feel pre-calc regular will be a breeze (already is), and I'd have an easy A+, which I don't want. I want to be challenged. My Spanish 5 Honors is ALSo easy, but the colleges wont know that, as Spanish 5H varies in difficulty per school.</p>
<p>The more important consideration than whether or not you have the “right” number of honors and AP courses, is whether you have the right mix of core courses.</p>
<p>Without seeing your full transcript through junior year it’s hard to be sure, but since the math course in question is pre-calculus my guess is that without this course (ignoring the “honor” tag) you won’t be competitive in terms of your math for selective colleges if you don’t take the course. A significant number of applicants will have some level of calculus when they graduate, and if you don’t do the pre-calculus you may find (when you start college) that you need extra math before you begin core college courses. So take Pre-calculus. If you’re worried about the honors version, take the regular version. It won’t matter much compared to the bigger picture of taking it.</p>
<p>Also I’d encourage you to continue with your language studies. Foreign language is a core course, and ideal is 4 years of one foreign language. Again the tag of “honors”, “AP” or regular is not as important as taking the course in the first place.</p>
<p>At our high school your schedule would not be particularly “packed.” You have one math, one science, one English, one foreign language and one Social Science course. You also indicate you are taking 2 semester-long AP courses. That is six courses per semester as I am reading it, which doesn’t appear out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>^I agree with fogcity, pre-calc is essential for college level math. Eventually, your gonna have to take it. I would just stick with your current schedule.</p>
<p>Either way I’m taking precalc., just its either honors or regular.</p>
<p>@hudsonvalley: Really? Theres only 2 periods left in the day, and 1 more AP class left that I could take. So theres a limit to the APs offered at my school. I’ve take all APs besides 2(which are AP chem and AP bio, but i’m already taking a science AP, which is AP physics.)</p>
<p>I could take AP Psychology, but theres no room in my schedule. I’d have to drop Spanish for AP Psy, which isn’t a smart choice. </p>
<p>AP Physics, is two periods in my school. So only 2 periods left. (8 periods plus lunch.). The ONLY periods I could fill up is 6 and 7th, but theres nothing open in those periods besides, electives (which aren’t too beneficial at entry level.)</p>
<p>SO should i take Pre-calc HONORS over spanish 5 HONORS, ORRRRRR Pre-calc REGULAR, and still be in SPanish 5 Honors??</p>