<p>AP Physics AB
AP Physics Lab
AP English Language
AP US History
AP Statistics
Honors Pre-cal
Study Hall</p>
<p>Here is my schedule for this coming year. I am kind of nervous as to whether or not this is too much. I am currently first in my class, and I would like to keep it that way. Can anyone with any experience with these classes tell me what I might struggle with and what won't be much trouble.</p>
<p>Also, would it do me in to take AP environmental in place of my free period.</p>
<p>I was unaware these AP courses were being offered. :D</p>
<p>And I don’t know your strengths and weaknesses, so while US history could be a breeze (or at least not terribly challenging) for some, it could torture for others. In either case, US history will probably suck up a good amount of time.</p>
<p>The difficultly of AP Lang depends more on the workload in your class than on the difficulty of the incoming AP testif you’re a good writer and you read a decent amount you should run into little difficulty and shouldn’t have to study too much or at all really.</p>
<p>If anything this is schedule underload. You basically only have 4 real classes. I’m combining the physics and the stats/pre-calc (the latter because stats is a joke and pre-calc is generally less work than AP Calc BC). </p>
<p>For workload, it all depends. At my school, APUSH and language were killer because the teachers gave a ton of homework (about 1.5 hours per night for each class for me, and I do things quickly) and tests were tough. Come AP time, most of us got 5s, though. AP Physics B will depend on if your teacher gives big problem sets. Same with the math classes. As far as AP classes go regarding the test, APUSH will probably be the toughest one, but this depends on how well you guys are prepared.</p>
<p>it is schedule underload in a raw difficulty sense. You may be strapped for time, because you will have less study halls and a bit more required homework, although the content of said HW shouldn’t be too bad.</p>
<p>^Agreed, wouldn’t recommend taking AP US and AP English in the same year… unless those were like your only 2 AP classes. But, if you heard the teachers of those classes don’t give too much hw then I’d give it a shot (definitely not the case at my school).</p>
<p>and i didn’t think it was overload… until the woman doing scheduling literally laughed when I asked for more AP classes… “You are killing yourself without a study hall”…</p>
<p>^ I received quite a few raised eyebrows for asking to take two additional AP exams I was self-studying for.</p>
<p>However, if you’re taking the hardest course load possible (or at least hardest in comparison to your classmates), you are not “underloaded” in any sense and will not be at a disadvantage come admissions time for any college. If you can replace your study hall with an additional academic course, however, you may want to do so in order to increase your “course rigor.” So yes, it would do you good to take environmental over a free period, but also consider your time for extracurriculars, your free time, and your sanity before tacking on more courses.</p>
<p>I think I got it figured out. I am going to forgo the Environmental science in favor of a free period. I am going to just self-study Computer science and pray for the best. I hope this will be a good year. Good luck to everyone else as well!</p>
<p>The OP has 4 real classes. That is underload. 5 real classes is the norm. If you were taking two sciences, which (at least at my former HS) would take up more time than two regular classes because of double periods, than it would be understandable to only have four or (gasp) five real classes.</p>
<p>I am going back and forth BAH!!! idk… I can’t get a chem because that is a lab science at my school and it takes 2 periods… what do I do!!! i thought i had it thought out last night but i dont</p>
<p>^Are you looking into engineering/math/science? </p>
<p>If so, I’d definitely recommend filling that study hall up with envirosci or dropping stats (it’s a joke course) and using the two periods to take chem or bio. </p>
<p>In my mind, stats and enviro-sci count as about one hard course. Physics=another. AP eng Language=another. APush=another. precalc=another. So that would give you five real courses and a very acceptable junior year schedule in terms of top schools.</p>
<p>Bit of a side track… but how does this schedule look for my junior year.
AP Biology
H-Latin 4
AP US History
H-English 11
H-Physics
H-Precalculus </p>
<p>*Everything highest level offered, except taking honors eng instead of AP eng lang (thought that would be overload with APUSH, and I like Bio more so took that as an additional AP)</p>
<p>how do you start a thread? Or can i simply interject here, since my question is related:
I am a freshmen in a highly competitive charter-magnet school and have suffered terribly this year with an overloaded schedule - eng concepts, symph orch (we really do have to practice daily in order to pass), hon physics, hon chem, hon frshmen language arts, ap human geo, chinese 1, 1 semester accelerated integrated geometry, and 1 semester precalc. My next year course prospects look like: Ap world history, hons language arts, ap bio, eng applications, symph orch, spanish 3 (im a native speaker but have a poor literacy background), AP calc bc or ab. My problem: i have a low gpa and class rank (3.9 gpa assuming ten points for ap class, ranked 16/ 161 first semester) and would like to raise it. AP bio is a required course, and the other aps are not, but on my math track my only options are AP calc AB or BC. I wish to enroll in the GA tech calc two/three course next year but fear my gpa will not be high enough to allow admission. Our current valedictorian (1st ranked in freshman class) did not take ap course and consequently had only seven classes. I have several questions. 1. Should i take ap world history 2. should i take calc ab or bc 3. would taking spanish, being a native speaker, hurt my prospects at college acceptance, 4. will the rigor of my school be taken into account on college applications, 5. should i drop out (i have a high chance at being valedictorian at my home high school with a graduating class of 800 plus people, or of at least raising my gpa while still taking ap courses) and finally, 6. I wish to take orchestra for 4 years but it is seriously hindering my schedule options 7. which colleges are out of my league?</p>
AP Physics B
AP English Language
AP US History
AP Statistics
Honors Pre-cal
</p>
<p>That is a pretty competitive setup of classes. That is definitely not overload if you know you can handle 4 APs + 1 honors. Worst case scenario you can always drop AP Statistics and/or AP U.S. History if you don’t have enough time to complete your homework or adequately study for your classes.</p>
<p>What is AP physics lab?? Why do classes even have a separate lab period, i think it’s silly. Anyway, AP stats is a joke, and US AP isn’t that bad. so it’s fine</p>
Because if classes are 50 minutes long and you only have the class for one period a day, it’s kinda hard to get any labs done. In AP Bio we only did like three or four labs because of this.</p>