So my high school doesn’t allow students to choose AP classes during freshman or sophomore year and I’m currently self studying AP psych. It’s time for course scheduling and I have no idea if my current choices are too much. I’ve always taken all honors classes and gotten A’s.
AP Lang
Physics honors
French 4 honors
AP US history
Pre Calc honors
AP microeconomics
And does taking AP bio instead of microeconomics and doubling on science sound crazy? I really need advice, thanks
Since you’ve never taken AP classes, your current schedule looks reasonable but taking more than 6 very rigorous junior classes might be pushing it.
Have you taken chemistry? (You need bio, chem, and physics by graduation)
Yes I’ve taken bio and I’m currently in chem.
Then this schedule is excellent.
What would you take senior year ?
Any interests (academic fit, major, college you’re aimong for?)
I always tell my kids to think first things first. I’d rather have them doing APs in Math and English first, then secondary history, science and language. So if my kids were doing 5 AP’s it would be English, Math, language, science and history. IF time and interest allows then add in others. I don’t see much value in AP psych or micro where you likely can’t get credit in college and should also start at a college level in college. Just my opinion.
Also, it depends on how the school is set up. What is the most rigorous program that most kids do and still do really well? That varies a lot from school to school.
I think it looks fine. No need to add a second Science.
Thanks so much! I’m thinking of Ap literature, AP Calc AB, AP chem or bio, Ap french, and I need to figure out what other classes would work well with this schedule. Right now I’m thinking about something science related (career in research maybe) as my major but it feels too early to know for sure.
Thats a good schedule, it will be very rigorous but that is exactly what Junior year calls for. For your AP science, I’m not sure how it is at your school but Ap Bio is known to be a little easier so you might want to take that and then do AP Chem senior year but its up to you. If you like chem better then do chem. Throw in an elective, something easy and fun to take a load off and then another elective class that is more academic. AP Human Geography is super easy. I did nothing in the class and got a 4 on the test.
If you want to major in science, then you can try to replace AP econ with APBio, but it’ll be significantly more work, perhaps too much.
Senior year you could take honors English and social science (not AP) to take AP bio and AP chem, then Calc Ab and Ap French, and your schedule would be full. AP chem is one of the hardest APs there is. If you were to move toward business or econ or other social sciences as a major, then your senior schedule would be good with just AP bio but + AP econ and AP Gov.
I almost always agree with @MYOS1634 , but I disagree with her here.
Unless you are the 1% of the 1%, the workload AP Bio and AP Chem concurrently is brutal. In addition to the demands of the normal AP, each has extensive lab requirements. At many schools, these classes are double blocked or require mandatory before/after school time. Plus the time writing lab reports.
I agree with you actually 
but if OP wants to study both AP Bio and AP Chem, the choices are either AP Bio replacing AP Econ junior year, or taking both concurrently senior year, and due to the super heavy workload that would imply, that’d mean removing APs that exist as honors or regular courses. (That’s why I didn’t change AP French, since I assume it’s its own level of French with no “honors/regular” senior level class.)
Not sure the trade off is worth it as, indeed, it’d be brutal.
However the curriculum choices would point more to “future social science/business major” than “future scientist/researcher”. Obviously this depicts plans by a 15-16 year old.
OP: by the way, you can be a researcher in many fields, including those that analyze society.
Or replacing APEcon with AP Bio as a junior, taking AP Chen as a senior and sliding AP econ (or honors econ if offered ir another social science) into one of the open slots senior year. If OP thinks that senior year workload would be too much, they can drop down a level in English.
I need to take a career elective as one of the graduation requirements so that’s why I need to take AP econ either junior or senior year (I really don’t want to go through a year of journalism or accounting). Yeah, doubling on AP bio and AP chem is way too much. I could take AP bio and physics honors at the same time junior year I guess. Thanks! It’s kind of hard to know what course load will work out and online scheduling isn’t really helping.