AP English Literature
AP US Government
AP Statistics
AP Environmental Science
AP French Language
IB Business & Management
High School Calculus
I decided to drop AP Chemistry and AP Calculus AB to my schedule and add APES and HS Calculus. Would that still be enough for the top 20 colleges?
Have you taken bio, chem and physics and an AP in one of them?
What is your intended major?
Obviously AP chem and AP calc are a lot more rigorous than APES and HS Calc.
I took IB Earth Science (A+), Honors Chemistry (A), and Honors Physics (A+).
Then I would suggest taking honors bio instead of APES.
My major will be in business or computer science.
T20s typically want to see one class in bio, chem, physics, and then an AP in one of those courses, regardless of intended major.
Look up the schools on your list and see what they recommend.
My top choice is going to be UPenn.
Should I just go with this schedule?
AP English Literature
AP US Government
AP Chemistry
AP Statistics
AP French Language
AP Calculus AB
IB Business & Management
For either of those statements, you’d be doing yourself a disservice by not taking AP Calc
2 years ago you were taking French 4H; how are you only now getting to AP French?
Okay, I’ll take AP Calculus AB.
If you’ve never taken biology, I would take H bio instead of AP chem. But yes to AP calc AB.
I dropped Honors French 4. I took IB French 4 this year.
AP English Literature
AP US Government
=> Take one of these two as an Honors class, if offered
AP Chemistry => you can take that or AP Physics 2 (or 1)
AP Statistics => take a CS science or data science class, if offered. If not, keep this.
AP French Language
AP Calculus AB
IB Business & Management
1° If your school offers AP Calculus and you don’t take it, you have no shot at Wharton. AP Calc AB is their default pre-req for their first year calc class. (There is a “remedial” calc class for kids who come from a HS that doesn’t offer AP Calc or who got a 3 or lower on the test.)
2° 4 AP’s senior year is ok. It’s more important your first quarter (if ED) or first semester (if RD) transcript shows straight A’s in these 4 Ap’s, and A’s in the other (all academic) classes you’re taking.
3°Have you talked about college budget with your parents? Do you know your EFC? Have you run the NPC?