<p>Per.
1. AP USH
2. AP Calc
3. AP Chemistry
4. AP Chem Lab/Peer Tutor on non-lab days
5. Spanish IV H
6. English III H
7. Sem 1 - Mandated Elective/Sem 2- Study Hall
8. Study Hall
9. Study Hall </p>
<p>Are the study halls going to look really weak? I would take another AP science, but my focus for college isn't going to be on science, and everyone is saying that I would be crazy to do two AP histories.</p>
<p>I was going to be an office aide, but isn't that worse than having electives? I'm concerned that top colleges are going to frown at my lack of classes.</p>
<p>Why would the study halls look week. you have 9 periods, if you scheduled anything else I would call you crazy. Most kids have 6/7 periods at their schools</p>
<p>Your fine actually I find it slightly comical (no offense) that your worried about the appearance of few classes.</p>
<p>Next year I'm taking</p>
<p>AP US
AP Bio
Trig H
English 11 H
Jap 3/4
And 2 college courses.</p>
<p>So we know which one of the two of us will get into Harvard at the end of the day, :-P YOU!</p>
<p>JP</p>
<p>GL.</p>
<p>Wait so how does your schedule work, because 9 periods is ridiculous</p>
<p>Yes, I believe that your schedule looks very weak for a typical junior schedule. AP Chem, and AP Chem lab...? That's the same AP course and yet you are eating away 2 periods. What is a "study hall", and 2~3 periods at that? You might as well as label it as school sanctioned sleep time. </p>
<p>"I'm concerned that top colleges are going to frown at my lack of classes." --- Not only are they going to frown at your pathetic excuse of a class selection, but your application folder will keep the Admissions office boiler room burning for most of the spring season. </p>
<p>There are 37 APs. How are you going to explain to them in your essay that in all your efforts at a successful junior year, you have managed to scrape under the bare minimum with 3 AP courses and a mandatory elective?</p>
<p>If I were you, I'd rethink your so called "class selection", and have a talk with my parents whether a college education is right for me.</p>
<p>We have 40 minute classes with 5 minutes in between...</p>
<p>I don't know if you're serious or not ['cause that would be seriously ridiculous if you were]. All I was asking is if it would serve me well to take another AP class or fill up a period with an elective or do office work. I'm curious as to how blank periods look on an application. No need to snap.</p>
<p>Anyway, for the record, my school only offers 13 APs.</p>
<p>Teaspoon, I'm pretty sure Gryffon was being sarcastic there. At least, I hope that post was.</p>
<p>Anyway, you're taking 3 APs right now. That's plenty. I wouldn't worry about killing yourself more. I actually read a Washington Post article saying most college adcoms say that more than 5 APs throughout your entire college career is "showing off." I find that hard to believe, but it's something to think about. If you take 3 this year, and 4 or 5 senior year, you will be fine.</p>
<p>Trust me, you'll have enough homework with those 3 classes that you'll be glad you didn't take anything else. APUSH has a ridiculous load of work, at least at my school.</p>
<p>I'm in AP Chem, AP Bio, and APUSH this year (my junior) and the workload is just enough. I wouldn't want more or less.</p>
<p>Well, my school doesn't offer APs like Psychology or Economics, so really the only options I have are Biology, Environmental Science or European History.</p>
<p>Since I'm not really a science person, I wanted to go for Euro, but then people kept telling me how much reading there was and how people taking two AP histories was a suicidal amount of work.</p>
<p>I had every intention of doing office work, but I thought colleges looked down on office jobs because they were basically blow off classes?</p>
<p>teaspo0n...you already have a good load of classes..with it still if you do other activities such as office work--it will work in favor for you. I really suggest that you do office work. But then again, it's your choice.</p>
<p>If you don't want another history, and you're not big on lab science, go for enviro. it's technically science, but it doesn't really require the same conceptual stuff that lab sciences (physics, chem, and to a certain extent, bio) do. it's like a mix of science and history</p>
<p>I'd personally go with Euro, but that's because the histories at my school are ridiculously easy, and using PR's practice book gets me a 5 every time.</p>
<p>What to do depends partially on how hard your options are at your school and, given your strengths and weaknesses, how hard a particular set of classes would be for you. </p>
<p>Have you considered taking a class in one of the arts instead of working in the office?</p>
<p>I assume your AP Chem is a double period class -- which is how the AP sciences work at my kids' schools. Check with Guidance to see if study hall shows up on transcripts -- at DS's school, it doesn't.</p>
<p>I would look for an elective that reflects your interests (art? history? philosophy? music?) rather than working as an office aide. </p>
<p>Three APs is fine, but balance the rest of your schedule with things that interest you!</p>
<p>Is is just me or does anyone else think that 3 study halls will look bad. Excluding them, the OP will only have 6.5 classes (I think) which is lower than most. Take a fun course instead of 1 or 2 of the study halls, it will make you look more well rounded.</p>
<p>In response to Grace, I'm taking band this year and I took it last year... I'm just not too fond of it, so I don't intend on continuing with it.</p>
<p>To CountingDown - I'm pretty sure study halls don't show up on the transcript, but I'm taking 7.5 classes this year, so the decrease will definitely be noticable.</p>
<p>I'm currently in the top 10 at my school, but I'm afraid my GPA will take a hit with more [non-weighted] electives, I already have a tech class and two years of band, which is more than many others. Should this be an issue? </p>
<p>I should definitely come here less. I'm getting so paranoid looking at all the "chance" threads.</p>
<p>I don't know how your school is, teaspoon. But at mine, two history APs is suicide.</p>
<p>In APUSH, we have to do resource checklists every week. Basically a big list of points and concepts that we have to write four sentences about each. It ends up being 8 or 9 pages and that's on top of the presentations we have to write.</p>
<p>The AP Euro teacher is all about essays and has been known to assign 20 page take home essay tests over a weekend.</p>
<p>Again, I don't know how your school is, but two histories could be death.</p>
<p>If that is a weak scheduel then i'm not going to get into ANY college...my classes for my senior year I know are weak but considering I have lost all residency for where I wanted to go I don't care, but I have </p>
<p>Government
AP Lit
Study Hall
Buissness Math
Algebra A(I need two math classes to graduate here >.<)
World Geography
P.E.
Sociology</p>
<p>Here's my schedule, and it's probably the most rigorous at my school, I you are interested. I go to a private all girl's school, where lunch, PE, and religion are mandatory all four years. My orchestra is all messed up because of the double science- most everyone else has it four days a cycle. </p>
<p>9 periods- 6 day cycle
1. Physics (no honors/AP- required course)
2. Physics lab- A Religion- B,D,E,F Orchestra- C
3. American History (no honors- only AP that doesn't fit in schedule) I'm taking the AP exam though
4. Orchestra- A,F PE- C,D AP Chem Lab- B E-day= only study hall
5. AP Chem
6. Precalculus H
7. Lunch!
8. AP English Language
9. Spanish 4 H</p>
<p>I think your schedule is good, since it is advanced for all the core subjects. Mine is crazy because of double science, but I like science. My schedule last year had an extra period in there so I took Drawing and Painting first semester and Theater next semester. It is great to have a class like that during the day, so I recommend taking something that interests you. Than keep the extra study hall to eat and do AP homework.</p>
<p>I don't think colleges will even know if ou had a study hall, since they don't show up on my transcripts since you don't get credit hours for them. Anyway, keep at least one of them- then you can get really good grades in all your other subjects with the extra time to put more effort in. The other one I recommend two super fun elecives that reflect what you like to do. Or maybe you can fulfill any required classes for senior year now. What kind of options do you have?</p>
<p>Wow. I don't know how you could figure out all those different days. That would confuse the hell out of me.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think my school's teachers are really weak. I'm in all honors right now, and they're basically all textbook-oriented and composed of boatloads of busy work. The two business classes I was interested in are apparently being taught by the football coach, so he can gain more money.</p>
<p>The art classes look pretty cool and easy, social studies ones look interesting too, but I'm still a little concerned over the negative impact on my GPA.. is it worth it?</p>
<p>I think it is worth it. If I were a college I would rather take a student that actively explored their interests through electives than one that simply took academic courses to keep up their GPA. the first looks like an interesting person the second looks bland and competitive. </p>
<p>anyways, I just did scheduling for junior year, and I feel as though I just signed a death warrant for myself:
--AP Lang
--AP Gov't
--AP Econ (macro/micro)
--AP Physics
--Gym/Lab
--AP Stats
--Math 12H
--Health/College Sociology Honors</p>
<p>I'll prob drop a class b/c that seems like an impossible schedule.</p>