<p>What do you guys think of this?</p>
<p>AP Chem
AP lang
APUSH
AP Art History
Hon. Pre-calc
Spanish 2
Dual enrollment course (Not sure yeti hat course)</p>
<p>I like history, so I'm confident I can handle APUSH. Everyone I've heard from says that, besides AP calc and AP physics, AP Chem, AP lang, and APUSH are the hardest courses.
I currently have a 4.33 GPA, if that's any help. </p>
<p>Thanks for at least reading this!</p>
<p>Take AP Lang and APUSH out of the “hardest courses” category; that’s reserved for AP Chem, AP Bio, and AP Music Theory. (At your school, however, it might be different). Overall, it’s definitely manageable. Best of luck! :)</p>
<p>@Victory At my school AP Music Theory is probably the easiest class ever. You get extra credit for showing up on time, the quizzes are worth less than the homework (and there’s no tests), and there’s even rumors that the teacher doesn’t even have all his credentials (though I doubt it). He has a really good pass rate though, but I think that’s because most people come in with enough knowledge</p>
<p>k Aside from my tangent, I think your schedule would be pretty standard at my school. It might be a bit challenging but you definitely look like you can handle it. AP Chemistry can take a lot of time depending on how quickly you pick up concepts (for me, that’s like never, but I have friends that haven’t even touched the book and are doing fairly well) and AP Language really depends on your teacher… Some teachers love to give a lot of outside reading while others rely almost entirely on in-class testing and give almost no homework (APUSH can be the same from what I’ve heard but I never took it).</p>
<p>As for Honors Precalc, my advice is to check to see if the colleges you want to apply to consider it an honors class or not. I know for the state schools where I live, we have this website called UC Doorways that tell you if it counts towards your weighted GPA or not. Otherwise, there’s not a big point in taking it (unless your school doesn’t put you in AP Calc unless you’re in honors or you love math… that’s cool too).</p>
<p>And props to AP Art History. For me at least, that’s been my favorite class of junior year so far.</p>
<p>If that’s the hardest course load you can manage without losing your sanity, then it’s sufficient. It really depends on your school and the courses it offers, as well as what others at your school are taking (if you’re looking at this from the “what will impress colleges the most?” point of view: if that’s among the hardest schedules your school offers, then you’re good). Beware of APUSH, which requires a LOT of work (note taking - at least at my school), and AP Chem, which is just … hard (unless you have a really good teacher, which I don’t this year haha). AP Lang is more a test of talent rather than knowledge (imo), and at my school, the class itself pretty easy. Honors Precalc is a joke at most schools, but at my school was killer, but that’s only b/c our teacher connected everything to physics and polar coordinates. I haven’t taken APAH, so I can’t speak its difficulty. The whole difficulty thing depends on inherent ability anyway, so I can’t gauge exactly what each class will be like for you. Anyway, good luck!</p>
<p>For AP Lang, one thing was our teacher basically told us that the entire way we’ve learned to write essays is wrong, and to forget everything we’ve learned. So making the adjustment to a new type of writing was hard. The rhetorical analysis essays are hard, but argumentative and synthesis are similar to what we’ve done in previous years. There’s a lot of analyzing why the author included this and why he wrote this a certain way and what the effect of the parallel structure is, etc. Basically an analysis of how to write. </p>
<p>as for ap chem, there is a lot of information thrown at you. You have to keep up with learning the new info and reading the textbook. It’s definitely not easy. But I actually don’t regret taking the class (although I did at the beginning of the year…)</p>