My high school career started off kind of rocky with two B final averages, but my grades have climbed up and now I have straight A’s in 4 AP classes, including APUSH (for which the teacher had been dubbed as evil by many and only about seven or eight make it with an A out of his class), computer science, physics 1, and English language. The rest are dual credit (college-level classes for which we get college credit through community college). Will it be too hard to do the following (senior year):
AP European History
AP English Literature
AP Government
AP Macroeconomics
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based
AP Biology
Dual Credit EMT
Is it a good, solid schedule? (As in, it doesn’t look random or anything.)
Bro a course load like that your senior year? I wouldn’t recommend it. Not that it’s impossible but is it really worth it? What tier of colleges do you want to get into? If you’re gonna say Ivy League or Stanford, focusing on grades is a waste of time. They would take naturally talented prodigies with mediocre grades (state champion athlete, first place at a world science fair, national debate champion, etc.) over students with 4.7 GPAs every time. Screw them honestly. However, if you’re thinking about decent private schools or public ivies, then compensating for your two B’s with all those hard classes will help you definitely, but will not guarantee admission. I knew a guy who screwed up early in his high school career and tried to compensate for it his junior and senior years by taking all AP classes and he got rejected from UCLA.
I know physics 2 will be easy as the teacher has already shown us the gist of what we will do and told us we’ll start on physics 2 material after the AP exam this year. Lit should be fine as long as I don’t procrastinate. AP bio is said to be easy enough if we paid attention in freshman biology. AP Government and Macro are taught by the same teacher, who does most of her stuff online and in class.
I know I need more merits than just those classes(I don’t exactly have many as of now, just a National Spanish Exam award for level 5, I was recently informed my PSAT score qualifies for National Hispanic Recognition Program by the College Board, I have an award in extemporaneous writing, and my AP scholar award that I’m sure doesn’t mean anything), and I’m not aiming for the Ivies.
I just want to have something that makes me seem like a competitive applicant. Top 2% seems kind of shaky in my school, since it’s a low-ranked one.
My D decided to take 5 APs senior year. You are proposing 7. With her 5 APs she is routinely up past midnight doing homework. Similar courses but the Calc physics. If we had it to do again I’d suggest she take 4 instead of 5. Whether these are the “right” courses sort of depend on two factors (1) what are you interested in? (2) can you handle the work without blowing up. You can’t change freshman and sophomore GPA at this point. Colleges are impressed by APs, particularly if you perform well in the classes and on the AP tests. I don’t necessarily think 7 APs senior year is loads more impressive than 5 but it is a lot more work while you will have college applications, leadership positions in ECs and scholarship applications to worry about. Congrats on turning things around, don’t get carried away
AP Psychology
AP Physics 2
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP European History
AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature and Composition
AP Macroeconomics
AP Government
An updated schedule. Good luck bro!
@NASA2014 At first I thought you were taking all of those classes as well, haha.
Thanks. 
@XoXdreamerXoX
I’m in college, so I’m just helping out people here!
is this your senior year schedule? will you self-study some?
@NASA2014
Yes, this is my senior class schedule. I’ll probably just self-study environmental science as I already started but didn’t start soon enough to take the exam this year.
@NASA2014
No. I was going to take Micro instead of Macro, but the teacher left.
How is Marco at your high school? Mirco sounds easy for ap
@NASA2014
Apparently Macro has been easy, but that teacher left too. They’ll still offer Macro, but with a different teacher.
Nice to hear! I will be taking Marco this fall! kind of scared, but up for the challenge
Top colleges only want 4-8APs TOTAL. Act r that the law of siminiahing returns applies. In other words you’re going to kill yourself senior year for no good reason. Since you’ve all ready taken bio and ap physics fresh in yourind, ditch ap bio and keep ap physics. Next, only take Ap lit if you love reading, if
not take a cool English honors seminar.
Finally you’re missing g a foreign language, which is a core class, unless you already reached out levle or ap.
@MYOS1634
It’s either AP lit or academic English. I don’t want academic English.
Foreign language-I took the last Spanish class available Sophomore year because I tested into Spanish 4 freshman year (they gave native speakers a test in 8th grade to determine placement). If I take another foreign language, they’ll invalidate my 5 Spanish credits and I won’t graduate.
I thought it was 6-8?
However, I agree. Drop at least two classes and take a study hall or a “fun” elective. Maybe even an honors course. Euro, Lit, Calc BC and Bio will eat up a lot of your time.
^That is just craziness. That schedule will leave you with a lot of sleepless nights unless a) half of these classes at you school are bs classes where you don’t do anything or learn anything and/or b) you can run on 2 hours of sleep.
This schedule isn’t too much better. What do you want to major in? Pick out ** 3 - 4 ** AP classes that relate to your possible major and then 1 - 2 other courses (electives/honors courses) that you like. I recommend dropping an ‘AP-Lite’ (like Psychology, if you’re using @NASA2014 's schedule), Macroeconomics or Government and take a study hall for the rest of your classes. Easy or not, work piles up fast, ** especially* for AP classes. No need to overload yourself junior year, when you are supposed to be applying to colleges 1st semester.
If you do take either one one of these schedules, I wish you the best of luck. :)>-
Sorry for the weirdbqords, my connections is really terrible.
Anyway, what colleges are you aiming for? Because top college frown on heritage speakers studying their heritage language only , they want to see you learning an actual foreign language. Other colleges don’t care as long as you have the requisite level.
In Amy case don’t take both ap bio and ap physics2 . and if you take ap lit don’t take exon/gov. Do you have an art class, for instance, something creative?
Okay, these are all required (so I either take AP or academic):
AP Calculus BC (since I made above a 75 in pre-calculus)
AP Government
AP Macroeconomics
AP English Literature
AP Bio or Chem
My art credit was floral design. I learned interesting things, but I will admit I’m more of an academic than an arts person. Also, I didn’t want to switch foreign languages because then I’d have to start over on language credits. My 8th grade year, they gave me a pass out of class to go take the exam because of my proficiency in the language and I just happened to place in Spanish 4 (or AP Spanish Language and Culture).
My high school schedule has gone as follows:
Freshman
-Pre-AP Geometry
-Pre-AP Biology
-AP Spanish Language
-English I
-World Geography
-Gym/Aerobics
-Advertising and Sales Promotion
-Freshman Connections (required)/Speech
Sophomore
-AP World History
-AP Spanish Literature
-Pre-AP English II
-Pre-AP Algebra II
-Pre-AP Chemistry
-Principles of Health Science
-Gym/Touch Systems Data Entry
-Child Development/Virtual Business
Junior
-AP US History
-AP English Language
-AP Physics 1
-Dual Credit Pre-Calculus
-Dual Credit Health Science Internship
-Principles and Elements of Floral Design
-Pre-AP Computer Science
and planned senior schedule, as you know:
-AP Psychology
-AP Government
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Physics 2: Algebra-based
-AP Biology
-AP Chemistry
-AP European History
-AP Calculus BC
-AP English Literature
My real interest is in physics, so I will definitely be taking that. Psychology is something I find intriguing. Chemistry is something I could switch out for AP stat, as it is an interesting subject.
Is there a reason why you’re taking Marcoeconomics??