Hi everyone!
I am new to this site and am not sure if I did this right, but I was hoping to gain some insight in planning my classes next year.
My current history teacher wants me to take AP Euro next year (sophomore year) and APUSH junior year. I think this would be a great idea except that my school does not offer any other history courses after euro and APUSH. I am wondering if it is a good idea to do this? I could take honors colonialism instead and that would allow a history class all 4 years, but this is the one AP class offered to sophomores and it would boost my GPA and look good on applications. I would like to major in a STEM field and freeing up this block would allow me to take an extra math or science course, but do colleges prefer 4 years of history? Should I look into community colleges/online courses? I have to submit my course requests by next week and would love some insight as to what to do.
Thank you so much and I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe!
for colleges in general they want you to have one year of US and 1 year of a world history - past that the 3rd year is ususally whatever your school wants. A 4th year of social studies can be history but it can also be a class like economics, psychology, goverment, sociology, anthropology etc. The higher the level of school you are applying to the more likely they want 4 years of history/social studies. Other schools may be fine with 3 years. If it says 4 recommended take 4.
@momtogirls2 Thank you for your response! I will keep that in mind
Do that, and senior year take Economics, Government, or another social science, AP, dual enrollment or Honors. 
Just make sure you have 4 years of social science - which, as it was mentioned above, doesn’t need to be history as long as you have US history and World/Global/European history.
@MYOS1634 Thank you so much! I think that is what I am going to do, probably dual enrollment senior year because my school offers very few social science courses and they are all one semester electives and I think I would want a challenge.
On the other hand, it’ll be senior year and you’ll be focused on college applications, which take as much time as a writing-intensive course. You’ll have plenty of challenge if you take 4 AP’s senior year (especially if they’re hard APs). So, taking 1-semester social science electives might be a welcome respite in a rigorous schedule.
@MYOS1634 That is a very good point. Thank you so much for your input!