Internship vs. Hardest Course load

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hey all,
I'm a rising junior currently figuring out how to survive this coming year. An important mission, I'd say :)</p>

<p>Anyway, here's my dilemma. It's kind of hypothetical now, but it has the potential to be a real situation soon, so I thought I'd ask everyone's opinion. </p>

<p>I'm currently signed up to take seven classes (eight being the max you can take at my school):
AP Euro
AP Calc AB
Honors Chem
AP Lit
Honors Spanish 3
Creative Writing (double period- I go to an arts school and that's my art focus/major)</p>

<p>My counselor absolutely refuses to work with me on getting an additional class, because she doesn't want to switch my schedule around. To take another class, I'd have to either take one of the "cake" classes offered the hour I have free (I go to a small school, and the major academic classes aren't offered in all periods), or go outside the school (either to another school or a community college, both logistically difficult). </p>

<p>For one of my classes, I'm required to do an internship. I've contacted the place I'd like to do the internship, and they said they might be interested in having me, but the issue is- they're only open 9-4:30, and I get out of school at 3 and would then have to get there. As it happens, the period I have free is the last block of the day. So as my schedule stands now, I could leave at lunch, and go to the internship for the afternoon one or two days a week. </p>

<p>So the question is, how much will I be frowned upon by colleges for not having that "hardest course load" for my all important junior year? To me it's evident that taking an extra class at my school would be a waste of time, but I don't know that colleges will see anything except a hole in my transcript if I don't take it. However, I will be doing something useful with my time, and this internship relates to the major I want to pursue in college. So I'm completely up in the air here. </p>

<p>Thoughts? suggestions?</p>

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this internship relates to the major I want to pursue in college

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<p>Go for it! I almost had the same dilemma when I signed up for senior year classes:</p>

<p>I could either sign up for an internship with the National Cancer Institute to do some hands-on research (ironically, I don't do anti-cancer research, only anti-HIV research), or take AP Environmental Science, AP Physics I+II, and AP Euro history.</p>

<p>I took the internship, and it was a much better idea</p>

<p>By the way, I'm a carnivore, I don't eat enough veggies, but I still eat fruit!</p>

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<p>definitely internship</p>

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<p>Internship!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>thanks, everyone:)
collegehereicome- I like veggies, but I like junk food much better. for as healthy as being vegan sounds, I've managed to circumvent that in every way possible. wooh yeah.</p>