This is for my junior year and I am currently a sophomore. My school is a block schedule which means that I have four classes each semester but the classes themselves are longer. Would it be wise to take AP Research, AP Environmental Science, AP US History, AP Spanish, AP Chemistry, and AP Statistics. I took honors Chemistry and it was honestly the highlight of my day and I ended that class with an A and the highest grade in my class. At my school Spanish 5, which I am currently taking, and AP Spanish are the same class but the students get graded differently. The work is the same and the class period is the same it’s just that the AP students gets graded a little harder. I’ve heard that Stats is easy buts it’s a lot of work. The other three AP classes are required for me to take because I am in a magnet school. During the fall I manage cheer and in the spring I play tennis. With all of this information would it be possible to manage all of these classes for my junior year. Also to state, I know for sure that I’ll be taking six in senior, macroeconomics, comparative gov, physics C, Literature, and calculus AB and BC. In my freshman year, I took one which was AP human, and in my sophomore I am taking AP Language, AP Seminar, and AP World history. I ended up with a B in human but I currently have all As in my sophomore year. I am for sure taking Stats and I would really be mad at myself if I don’t finish the entire Spanish pathway so if I were to take one off it would have to be Chemistry.
Junior year is a very busy year as you will need to spend lots of hours preparing to take the SAT or ACT. Unless you plan on being premed or pursue sciences in college I don’t think you need to take AP Chem. However if you plan on a premed track I’d take AP Chem next year while it is still fresh on your mind and drop either AP Environmental Science or AP Stats or both. A reason to drop AP Stats is that if you take it and earn AP credit you would then have to take the higher level Stat course in college, which would be more difficult. Better to take the intro Stat course in college and get an A.
Well, the first question is: why do you want to do this? If you are trying to impress colleges by having a lot of APs, that doesn’t typically work. If you are planning to apply to competitive colleges they typically want 4 years of English, math, lab science (bio/chem/physics), social studies and a language.
So:
*if you drop a science EnvSci is the better choice to drop.
*AB & BC in the same year will count as 1 AP, but I don’t understand why you are taking Stats not an actual math class Junior year?
Junior year is often the most challenging of HS. It looks as if you are over-loading, and making some atypical choices that might backfire if you are applying to competitive colleges.
Take physics regular or honors instead of APES and take precalculus (H) instead of AP stats. Keep the rest.