<p>Okay I submit my schedule for junior year on Tuesday this is what it is going to be:
AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
AP Spanish Language
AP Chemistry
Honors American History
Honors Adv. Accounting</p>
<p>Is that good enough for Cornell to see as rigorous, or should I take APUSH instead of Honors and AP Art History/ AP Environmental Science instead of Honors Adv. Accounting?</p>
<p>I took IB so I’m not familiar with the rigour of AP, but from what i’ve seen on CC, that seems like a fine courseload.</p>
<p>Dont worry too much about how rigorous your course is… I only took AP AB calculus and AP chemistry in junior year for APs…</p>
<p>That’s like freshman year work bro.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to Jersey, It depends on your school. How many AP’s are offered? Also, while it may be a tougher work load to take up or harder AP’s, Don’t forget you still have to get good grades. Don’t overload yourself to the extent that your grades go down. Persoanally, that looks like a difficult coarse load to me, if your in a public. Heck, at my school Honors didn’t exist in the Freshman year and Sophs couldn’t take AP’s because the teachers didn’t want them! If your really worried, go ask your councilor what the top kids take (don’t ask whats a tough coarse load, chances are they don’t know and will just tell you what you want to hear)</p>
<p>If you think you can handle APUSH, I would say take it. Have you taken AP classes before this year? They are typically a bit harder than honors. Also, talk to people currently in both honors and AP and compare the workloads. If APUSH seems manageable, take it for sure. You want to take the most rigorous schedule that you can handle while still getting good grades.<br>
I think you should stick with Honors Adv. Accounting, since it sounds like you are more interested in accounting than art history (correct me if I’m wrong). Since there is no AP accounting, this is the hardest class you could take. Don’t take an AP class you won’t enjoy!
Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m not sure how it works at your school, but at my school APUSH is one of the most rigorous classes with a huge workload, so considering all the other classes you’re taking, you should really consider whether or not you can balance everything and still do well in all the classes you’re taking.
If there’s not a huge difference at your school between honors american history and APUSH, however, I would encourage you to take APUSH. It really depends on the way your school’s curriculum works.
As to your concern about AP Art Studio/AP Environmental Science instead of honors advanced accounting, I’d say choose the classes you’re most interested in. If you really do want to go into accounting in the future and you find that most interesting, don’t just look at whether a class is AP or not, because your classes are already considered very rigorous by most standards (a lot of schools like mine only allow juniors the room to take 4 AP classes maximum), and colleges don’t just look at how many AP classes you took but also whether or not you’re well-rounded.</p>