<p>I am a junior in high school now and I am planning my senior year schedule. The classes that I am planning on taking as of right now are</p>
<p>AP Language and Composition
AP Psychology
AP Microeconomics
AP Environmental Science
Honors Precalculus
Honors Journalism III
Honors Latin IV.</p>
<p>I am wondering whether it would be better to substitute AP Art History for Journalism III and a Comparative Mythology Independent Study for Latin IV.</p>
<p>What schools are you shooting for? As schedules with three honors and four AP’s go, that one is pretty easy (no AP math class and three relatively fluffy AP’s).</p>
<p>I’m a senior right now and I got into UIUC just fine with 7 AP classes total throughout my high school career. You don’t need to pile up all your APs your last year just to impress the schools.
I regret taking a couple of the AP classes I did (I took 7 of the 9 offered at my school). I was too busy with trying to take all the hard classes at school that I didn’t realize how I wasn’t really able to handle some of it.</p>
<p>I advise you to take the ones you are interested in and the ones that apply to your future major. With that said, is AP Art History necessary? Unless you are planning to go into the liberal arts department or something. But, if you know you can get an A in it or something, you could take it I guess. </p>
<p>And for your math course, you should probably finish precalculus so you have all your high school math finished before college. Colleges like Northwestern and Tufts probably expect you to be in calculus your senior year already or something like that.</p>
<p>Hope that helps…?</p>
<p>Honors Journalism? Lol. (sorry, had to.)</p>
<p>Well, it depends on the school, but it looks pretty good, although I’d say AP Psychology and AP Envi Sci are pretty easy. Micro maybe not as much, and English is easy, but maybe I’m biased. It would look better if you were in Calculus/AP math, but at least you’re in honors.</p>
<p>Ya, I agree with many of the others comments that it is a good schedule but not top-notch. Which colleges are you looking into?</p>
<p>The two courses on your list that resonate are:</p>
<p>Honors pre-calculus
Honors Latin IV</p>
<p>It would be better if you can find a way to take calculus in your senior year. I assume that you’ve had three years of math in high school, so I’m somewhat surprised that you have not gotten to the point where calculus is a possible course. Perhaps you can find a way to prepare for it over the summer.</p>
<p>What’s missing in your schedule is a solid science course. I don’t think Environmental Science counts as that. In practice, it is not quantitative enough. Better to take the college version 2-3 years from now :-)</p>
<p>If you have not yet taken physics, then I recommend you do that. Or if your school offers Honor/AP Chemistry or Biology, and you haven’t taken that, then that’s a good choice.</p>
<p>Your humanities courses don’t seem as core as I think they need be. If your school offers advanced/honors history and/or an advanced/honors literature course then I encourage you to take one or both. The best of these courses would require a great deal of critical writing.</p>
<p>Seven courses seems excessive. Perhaps you can bring it down to 6 more challenging courses, where one of the courses is a challenging hands-on course, such as something new to you in visual or performing art.</p>