<p>This is my first thread, so excuse me if I'm putting this in the wrong thread....</p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman in high school in CA. my schedule is:</p>
<p>honors biology
honors english
spanish 3-4 (im in 3, but next semester i'm switching into 6, so im skipping 4 and 5)
honors algebra 3-4
digital media (next semester thats gonna have to be health)
pe</p>
<p>next year i plan on doing:
AP Biology
Honors Humanities (second year honors english)
AP Spanish
AP Chemistry
AP Calc AB
AP European Civilization</p>
<p>im basically, skipping precalculus (im good at math... i have a 97 in hon alg 3-4)
skipping honors chem (is this a good idea? I checked out an honors chem book and study 1-2 chapters a week)
skipping spanish 7-8 (that's for sure... im really good at spanish, its super easy to me)
and i swim, so i can fulfill my pe requirement there. </p>
<p>Do you think I can manage this as a 10th grade schedule? im pretty smart adn very motivated. any help appreciated :)</p>
<p>That’s crazy. AP Chemistry is very difficult and you might feel very behind in AP Calculus if you skip precalc. If you are adamant about skipping precalc, i would recommend taking honors calculus first. I’m sure you are very smart and motivated, but the sheer workload you will have with this schedule would be extremely stressful. I would say keep AP Spanish, AP Biology, AP Euro and drop to Honors Calc and take AP Chemistry and AP Calculus the year after. Like Francaisalamatt said, I dont know you well enough to know if you can handle that schedule, but my advice would be to enjoy high school a little bit and not spend it ripping your hair out with stress…especially your sophomore year.</p>
<p>I recommend dropping AP Bio, unless you’re really good at memorization. That class coupled with Euro could be disastrous. </p>
<p>Keep AP Calculus (Precalculus is not needed), but I don’t think 2 AP sciences is such a good idea. I’m doing it this year with AP Chem and AP Physics C, and it’s hell. Though Physics C is probably the hardest AP out there, I’d imagine Bio would be pretty challenging as well.</p>
<p>I would say keep one science, prob bio first, and euro.
Calc you might want to take precalc first no matter how good you are in honors algebra/trig.
for ap spanish, you better be really fluent, cause i’m dying right now cause of it.</p>
<p>Yeah AP Chem is hell, AP Bio is TONS and TONS of information.
I’ve heard AP Spanish is hard (I took AP French), but imo language APs are easier.</p>
<p>^Depends on your skill level. Some people would rather play around with Monte Carlo methods than write a sentence in French. OP could potentially be the former…</p>
<p>Don’t take AP Spanish yet unless you’re a native speaker. The AP Spanish test has a really hard curve because so many native speakers take it. AP Biology should be fine since you’ve already taken honors biology, but you really should have a regular chemistry class before AP Chem. </p>
<p>If you really are amazing at math, skipping precalc should be okay. Just make sure you know trig very well. Memorize the unit circle and be familiar with trig identities.</p>