<p>How bad will it look if I grad from high school with no physics on my schedule
I will have taken Ap Bio......hnrs Chem/phys........Ap Enviro........Ap Chem
Advice??</p>
<p>My daughter isn't taking physics, either, so you're not the only one in that boat. My son, who is an ND soph now, didn't much care for his Spanish teacher and opted not to take the 4th year, although it was offered. In a perfect student world, he would have done so... He was advised to take it. He is a stubborn young man. Turns out he was right...it didn't matter.</p>
<p>I don't think the university is looking for absolutes nearly to the extent we speculate here. If you have stated your intended major as engineering, then having opted not to take the highest level of science is not that big of a deal, I wouldn't think. If you are thinking of going arts & letters, or even business, there is no reason--barring outright masochism--that you would need to torture yourself with physics. </p>
<p>Take a deeeeeep breath and remember, they aren't bean counters in admissions, ravaging through applications with a big black book of accumulated demerits. They are trying to get a read on an overall picture of a person and fit. </p>
<p>I submitted my application way back when replete with many typos and strikeovers (back in the days of electric typewriters, before correction tape came into play---and wayyyy before anything close to word processing software). My counselor was livid, and demanded that I retype the entire thing. I told her that any university that would see fit to reject me not on the basis of what I have to say, but whether or not the statement has typos is way too petty for my taste. So I sent it in anyway... Was accepted early admit as a Notre Dame Scholar. Shows what the counselor knew...</p>
<p>Don't let people get you paranoid!</p>
<p>wow.. thanks DDjones.....
puts it into perspective....</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat. The physics teacher at my school is notoriously scatter brained and I've heard people say that it's a waste of a class. Rather than bore myself, I've decided to take an Organic Chemistry class at our local university instead. Don't worry</p>