Is this schedule tough for a 10th grader?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Tenth grader at private school:</p>

<p>In School
-English Honors
-Spanish 3 Honors
-Chemistry Honors
-American History Honors
-Precalculus Honors</p>

<p>Out of School
-AP Psychology
-AP Environmental Science</p>

<p>On top of doing Cross country every day until 6 PM, Orchestra every week, Piano lessons, 3 hour volunteer shifts at the hospital, Forensics meets on saturdays, Forensics practices after school, Newspaper editor and working after school everyday, club vice president, key club student leader, and tennis on the weekends.</p>

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<p>The rigor will depend on what you can take. If your school doesn’t offer AP Chem, or AP History, and you’re taking the hardest classes that are available, that’s good. If you can take one of those APs, I think you might be better to do that, and then if need be drop one of those honors classes to a regular level class if you can’t handle the schedule with the AP and all honors.</p>

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<p>It’s tough to judge ‘honors’ levels at different schools, but your ECS are great and two APs as a sophomore are great. Just make sure you’re not taking on too much so that your grades suffer and that it’s more important to be president of one club than a member of ten. Keep it up!</p>

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<p>We can’t do AP Chem until we do Chem Honors, and that’s likewise for AP USH. We don’t offer those somewhat “minor” or “unrelated” APs, such as Psych, Enviro, Micro/Macro, Human Geo, etc. So this is the hardest schedule I can take.</p>

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<p>Well, if it’s the hardest you can take, then it’s hard enough. Unless you wanted to enroll in a CC and take classes there, there’s nothing you can do. And you’re already going above and beyond with self-study APs. Colleges really don’t expect 10th graders to take CC classes, don’t worry.</p>

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<p>Are you taking French in addition to those classes?</p>

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<p>^hahaha. You caught on too.</p>

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<p>I changed it in case anyone I knew read it. You can replace the foreign languages with one another, but the story in essence remains intact. Sharp eye, my friend, sharp eye.</p>

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<p>Well, sure, the schedule is somewhat tough if that’s the toughest possible schedule (as you said). However, what really matters is not necessarily the difficulty, but your grades in the classes and the level of involvement in the extracurriculars. Are you a straight A/A+ student with a high level of involvement, or an A-/B/C student and what colleges call a “serial joiner”?</p>

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<p>A (like 95-96) with serious involvement.</p>

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<p>That appears to be a pretty rigorous schedule! Hope you can keep up with all the work you’ll be doing, but I’m sure you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>Shpanks. [That means thanks]</p>

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<p>Jesus, at my school, that would be a pretty damn hard schedule. Especially since you’re taking APs outside of class.</p>