<p>Also, should I replace one of my electives for another Ap, just so I could make it look more rigorous. Initally, I only had 2 Ap classes. & I'm at a disadvantage, my school only offers 6 classes.</p>
<p>Here's my 11th grade schedule:
Ap English Language
Ap US History
Pre-Cal
Spanish 5-6
Varisty Golf
Digital Arts</p>
<p>Or should I keep this schedule & self-study an Ap class.</p>
<p>They should both be rigorous; take the classes available to you. Don’t take more APs just to please a college.</p>
<p>For me, the junior year is by default more difficult just because that’s how the IB classes happen to work.</p>
<p>varsity golf’s a class? awesome.</p>
<p>ahah yes.
It’s the last period of our schedule.
& it’s only half a semester, the other half, I might take journalism.</p>
<p>Well, for me, Junior year is much tougher because I have the highest levels of my required classes (specifically math and science). </p>
<p>Next year I don’t have any higher level core classes (nor are they available to me), so my only core classes are lateral moves (like to DE Gov from APUSH)</p>
<p>And since I don’t have as many required classes, I can take more electives, like Mass Media and DE Entrepreneurship. </p>
<p>So, yes, for my school, Senior year is always easier.</p>
<p>Junior: Honors English, AP calculus BC, AP chemistry, Physics, Spanish 1, Marching Band, Jazz Band (zero period), Intro to Computer Programming w/ C++ (one semester, online community college class)</p>
<p>Senior: AP English, AP Stats, AP Bio, AP Gov/regular Econ, Spanish 2, Marching Band, Jazz Band (zero period), Music of Multicultural America (one semester, online community college class)</p>
<p>On paper, senior year looked harder b/c of going from 3 AP/Honors to 4 APs. But in practice, senior year was much easier. Calculus is so much work compared to stats, and AP Bio is a joke at our school. Chemistry required actual learning, but Biology is mostly “here’s the book, go read the chapters and memorize stuff.” Also, government was only one semester, followed by regular economics. And for me, AP English was easier because of a more interesting teacher and none of the little side projects where you have to make a poster about the book or something like that. Also, the programming class was challenging. However, the online class I’m taking right now is easy general ed for UC Berkeley’s “American Cultures” graduation requirement. The class runs on a point accrual system: once you get 2000 points you have an A, so all I have to do is take several open book quizzes and write one essay.</p>
<p>If you’re worried about not having enough AP classes, and your school doesn’t offer ones you’re interested in, check local community colleges. My school offers 12 AP classes, though that includes spanish, studio art, and counting both the calculus AB and BC classes. But they didn’t have AP computer science, and I was considering a major in CS or computer engineering. So I took an online class at a community college. I don’t know where you live and what your state’s laws will be, but here in California it is FREE for high school students; the only cost is textbooks. It doesn’t look like your high school has a lot of challenge to offer you and it will really impress the colleges you apply to if you go out and find the challenge you want at a community college.</p>
<p>Jr…ap guv, ap calc bc, ap stats, honors physics, honors eng, elective and srltudy hall</p>
<p>Sr…calc 3 and lin alg before school, ap physics, ap comp sci, ap econ, english, two study halls and left early</p>
<p>Jr year was a lot more work imo. Trust me, a few months from now, you’ll check out</p>
<p>Depends on your school. At mine, for the top of the class senior year is harder. People take 2 sciences (AP Bio/Physics H, AP Chem/Physics H, AP Enviro/Physics H, AP Enviro/AP Physics) most continue with an AP english and social studies, add on AP Calc… some attempt AP in a language, etc… And then the lazy-goers and not so smart kids may drop science and math, take all regular classes (instead of full year ones they take easy semester electives)</p>
<p>For your junior and senior year schedules, it really depends on what your course offerings at your school are.</p>
<p>But in a general sense, both are equal in some way or form. Junior year is indeed intense because you’re taking a good number of difficult academic classes and trying to make good grades on them to show to colleges for college applications. This is where most people struggle because they have to adjust to the heavy academic load, something that they have never experienced before in their high school lives. (aka taking a full load of AP or IB classes)</p>
<p>Senior year…taking from my own experience, its slightly better in my opinion. Usually most people keep their academic load at the same level as junior year (some up it just a bit), but otherwise, the feeling is just like if you were taking the same level of academic load the previous year. Though, by that time, you’re adjusted to it.</p>
<p>Though the new pressure for senior year would be college apps. xD</p>
<p>It’s all subjective to the school’s course design. For my school, it’s all uphill, Frosh < Soph < Junior < Senior. 0 APs, 1 AP, 4 APs, 7 APs. So on that regard senior year is tougher than junior. For me.</p>
<p>Freshman- 0 AP’s, Sophomore- 1 AP and 2 self-study, Junior- 5 AP’s and maybe self-study 1 or 2, Senior- 2 or 3 AP’s (ran out) and classes at university.</p>
<p>i think that’s technically the case but most of the time it doesn’t turn out the be that way…</p>
<p>My experience with both my kids and all of their friends and my friends with kids, is that their junior year was tougher than their senior year. There is a 7 year spread between my two, so it’s been this way, at least in our district, for a while.</p>