Hi, first I wanted to show you all my schedule for the next two years.
Junior:
government/personal finance
AP chemistry
AP Chemistry/PE
French IV
AP Language
Yearbook (editor)
Math analysis
Senior:
AP US history
AP biology
Physics
AP Literature
Painting I/ open space
Yearbook (editor in chief)
Calculus
Questions:
Junior Year:
Would it be better if I took AP Government and moved my personal finance credit to senior year (PF is required, so is gov)
I can move up in math to math anaylsis (what is scheduled now) or I could remain in the normal math class, which is Trig and College Algebra, which do I want to do?
Senior Year:
Do I want to add AP Physics- Mechanics and AP Calc to my senior year schedule or stay at only 3 APs?
I am interested in doing something with medicine/science for a career, should I be taking anatomy or is it okay to not since I am taking both AP Chem and AP Bio?
I’m looking at mostly Ivy Leagues, but I’m keeping my options open; however, I’d like to work as if I am going to an Ivy League that way when the time comes I have more options.
Most of these are questions that are specific to your high school - rigor of courses varies greatly, so you should be discussing this with your guidance counselor.
There is no need to take a high school level anatomy class if you’re thinking about medicine as a career. If you go to med school, you will learn anatomy there. I didn’t take any anatomy courses until med school.
“I’m looking at mostly Ivy Leagues”
You should be looking at individual schools, not schools in a group. Liking Brown doesn’t mean that you’d also like Princeton, Cornell, and the other Ivy League schools. Figure out what you like about certain schools and look for that characteristic.
Have your parents check out the net price calculators for each school you are considering. Plan in advance how you are going to pay for medical school so that you can decide if you should consider less prestigious schools that offer merit aid. You have not indicated your stats but if you are high stats, compare costs and which schools will offer merit because the Ivies, and many private schools, do not. Good to start planning early.
“Looking at mostly Ivy Leagues” is not the wisest strategy for college admission, no matter how much you or your parents want you to attend a prestigious school. There are many excellent schools with higher admit rates than the single-digit percentages of the Ivies.
And as @bruno14 mentioned, The Ivies are not alike. My dd (a Brown student) visited several of the Ivies, and in the end was not interested in applying to any other than Brown. She did apply to some “Ivy equivalents” — but be aware that many of these schools have fairly low admit rates as well. With luck, sometime in your junior year you will be assigned a college counselor, who will help you understand the process a bit better.