<p>I'm a rising junior and am particularly interested in colleges such as Stanford, Amherst and Yale. However, I've been having some issues figuring out my junior year schedule, so please give me your input if you happen to come across this thread.</p>
<p>My schedule as of now looks like this:</p>
<p>Journalism
AP English & Composition
Spanish 4
Precalculus/Trig Regular
AP US History
AP Environmental Science</p>
<p>My school does not offer very many AP courses, so my only other alternative AP science would be AP physics, which I'm planning on saving for my senior year. However, my main question arises out of the fact that I'm taking regular math. I originally planned to take honors precalculus/calculus A, but it did not fit into my schedule with Spanish. Should I continue Spanish or take the honors math? Will taking one regular math course if I'm not planning on pursuing a major related to math hurt my chances at being accepted into an Ivy league school?? I plan to take AP Calculus senior year.</p>
<p>I guess my overall question would be, is my schedule rigorous enough for junior year? Please give me some insight. Thank you.</p>
<p>I don’t think your schedule is very rigorous at all. AP enviro is considered an easy AP, and AP english can’t be all that hard considering my daughter took the test at the end of 10th grade preIB english (they had empty spots) and scored a 4 without any studying. APUSH is the only class that will probably be a fair amount of work.</p>
<p>You need spanish 4- some colleges want 4 years of FL.</p>
<p>If you don’t think you will do relatively well (B or higher) then you probably shouldn’t take it. But Stanford has like a 7% acceptance rate and turn down kids stacked with APs. Just do as well as you can and also well on your SAT</p>
<p>Also, did you take Algebra 2 HN or regular last year, and was it challenging?</p>
<p>In terms of the math/language it is up to you. Ivy leagues are ivy leagues, no matter what your chances are not great. Ideally you would have more honors if you were looking at ivies, but if they are not offered schools can’t get annoyed at you. I recently dealt with a similar issue in picking a math, I chose the honors pre-calc because I know I will enjoy it. Pick what you like.</p>
<p>I took honors Algebra 2 HP last year and it was not particularly challenging by any means.</p>
<p>I guess this all depends on the rigor of your high school. Personally, my high school is very competitive, so all the classes I take are sometimes even harder than our local college classes. AP English is actually one of the hardest APs in our school. So what I am really trying to say that you need to measure the competitivenss of your high school - are there people smarter than you taking the same number of APs as you are. Or are they doing something else?</p>
<p>One more thing - if your Spanish 4 class has an Honors track, I recommend taking that instead.</p>
<p>don’t worry about how rigorous it looks. There are some schools where the “reg” is equiv to “Honors” at other schools. Work your tail off and try to get A’s. It is the 10th and 11th grade grades that will get you in</p>
<p>I think your schedule looks fine! The only thing I would worry about maybe is if you plan to take AP Calc next year. At my school, you HAVE to take Honors Pre-Calc if you want to take AP Calc. But, it’s probably different at your school :)</p>
<p>yeah I wish my school did have an honors Spanish 4, but it doesn’t :(</p>
<p>yeah it’s different but thank you! i’m planning on taking Calculus A over the summer anyway so I can join calculus BC senior year.</p>