<p>Adv Orchestra
AP Biology
AP Environmental Science
AP Government & Politics
AP Statistics
Dual Enrollment English
Pre Calc ( considering taking it over the summer online) or
AP Calc AB
Spanish 4 (might drop it just because Spanish 3 is kicking my butt right now)
Also possibly taking AP Macroeconomics online because it is not offered at my school.
I was wondering if my course load was rigorous enough, especially since my junior year was my first year taking APs, so I only have 2 AP classes under my belt currently. The online school program is great in my state, so I'm considering just taking some AP's not offered at my school there during the school year simultaneously. I'm a bit worried though, that if i take too many online classes I won't have time for any EC's in my senior year.
I'd really appreciate any and all feedback. Thanks</p>
<p>You’ll definitely be rigorous enough, unless you took like 6 APs last year. </p>
<p>Okay thank you</p>
<p>Well i mean rigorous in the sense that, if I wanted to apply to Ivies or really competitive schools, i’d have a solid foundation for my application.</p>
<p>cora the solid foundation you need will include all the coursework completed up until now, and frankly it looks like you are trying to overload your senior year to make up for lack of rigor in previous years. How come you’ve only taken two APs so far? If APs were available to you freshman and sophomore years and you didn’t take any then you probably won’t be competitive for most highly selective schools no matter what you do senior year. </p>
<p>I would say take only those APs that you are sure you can get an A in. Don’t overload yourself and wind up crashing academically. And will your school let you enroll in AP Calc without first completing Pre-Calc? Even if so, do you feel strong enough in your mathematics ability to tackle it without much preparation? </p>
<p>Be thoughtful about this process and realize you can’t make up for lost time - all you can do is demonstrate an ongoing pattern. Keep up with your ECs and stay focused on letting your best self shine through. If you do this you will wind up at a great place! Good luck to you. </p>
<p>The OPs schedule smacks of desperation and loading up on APs to impress. It won’t work, schedule alone will not impress Ivies. Others will be far ahead of you in rigor, and this is a schedule designed to inflict maximum pain for little gain. Try to design a schedule you can get mostly A’s in, with 5 cores, a max of 4 APs, at least two of them hardcore APs, and lower your college sights a bit. Apply to an Ivy or two, but realistically, if you do well with the revised schedule, there are plenty of very good schools that will be interested that don’t have “Ivy” attached to their athletic league.</p>
<p>^I agree. Limit yourself to 4 APs. If you can take precalc over the summer AND get an A in it, take AP Calc AB, otherwise stick with AP Stats. Take Spanish 4, for any university or college ranked in the top 50 of their respective rankings, it’ll be expected - doesn’t matter if it’s in virtual school or not.
Do NOT take any AP class where you’re not certain to get at least a B in.
For any LAC or university in the Top 25, you’d also need pretty extraordinary EC’s (national-level champion).
Beside crapshoot universities, what are your reaches, matches, and safeties?
Start with your safeties (schools you like, are 100% sure you can afford and get into).</p>
<p>I agree- there is no way you will survive, let alone get A’s, taking all those AP classes. Cut it down to 4 MAX.
Your GPA is the single most important factor that college admins look at. So stick with a schedule and with classes that you can get A’s in.
And widen your search well beyond the top 25-50 colleges- the Ivy’s reject 90+% of applicants, including those with near perfect or perfect grades, dozens of AP’s ,[ including the toughest ones AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP chem, Foreign Language AP’s etc, etc. ] as well as outstanding EC’s. </p>
<p>If OP thinks he can handle it, it’s certainly doable. I’m taking 5 APs and 2 honors classes, and getting A+s in every AP class with minimal effort. Enviro, stats, and calc are considered quite easy, so I think it’s certainly not overboard.</p>
<p>^ o_O ONE person finding this schedule doable for themselves, doesn’t mean it is, nor that it is applicable for OP, nor for most.</p>
<p>follish: I know you’re in HS but come on, you should know better than say “I can do it therefore it’s doable”. Let me guess that before you took these classes, you had taken quite a few AP classes and weren’t in Algebra2 junior year.</p>
<p>In any case, calc is not considered easy except in the rarefied world of CC - only a minority of students ever get to it and stating "I have 5APs, I’m getting A’s with minimal effort’ is worthy of another thread. :)</p>
<p>I’m just saying, if OP thinks he can do it based on previous experience, then it’s not impossible for him to succeed.</p>
<p>The definition of doable is that it has been done and can be done, so by definition, if one person (and many more have, clearly) has done it, then it is in fact, doable. And this was my first year taking AP classes. </p>
<p>OP has previous AP experience, and should be able to gauge the workload. </p>