<p>I'm planning out my courses for next year and I only have two AP's (English and US), while most of the people in my grade are planning on taking at least 3 (and some 5 or 6). On the other hand, these people are doing AP Psych for an easy A in an AP.</p>
<p>I don't have any other AP's I could take next year. I have to continue my elective in marketing and I want to start a business elective because I want to go to Wharton. Plus, I want to do FBLA and that requires being in a business class. </p>
<p>So will only having only two AP's junior year hurt me? Especially since most people at my school take more? Should I take AP Stat as an eighth course online?</p>
<p>Oh and I'm taking 5 senior year.</p>
<p>once again, it all depends on how truly smart you are. someone taking 5 aps who is not qualified may get all 4's and 3's. the trite maxim, "study what you like" is true when you are delving into the AP's as a Junior and Senior. </p>
<p>also, taking 5's sounds way to intense for senior year. i would only recommend it if you are like in the top 3 percent of your class. taking the extra ap your senior year is not going to inch you into Penn, and come second semester, im sure you will be get senioritised regardless of your classes.</p>
<p>i took only two my junior year and 3 my senior year, and I got into Penn fine. don't go all out unless you are willing to pay the risk and cost. the end.</p>
<p>Don't take the business classes just to get into Wharton. If you like them, go for it, but the APs would actually help you more than the business classes and FBLA.</p>
<p>While Meng's anecdotal argument bothers me, his point is in the right direction. Take the classes you want to take, and can do well in.</p>
<p>matt you are phat fuq</p>
<p>but i need your friendship to eventually land a job.</p>
<p>cheers,</p>
<p>or as the estonian toast goes: "Death to the Russians"</p>
<p>meng it's a shame you're too busy taking touchy-feely classes to understand quantitative reasoning</p>
<p>but i need your friendship to eventually defend my homeland</p>
<p>cheers</p>
<p>stalemate achieved</p>
<p>The only winning move is not to play</p>
<p>this swiss bastards will pay one day</p>
<p>If you want Wharton, they want to see math. Make sure you max out on what your school offers. Five APs during senior year can be nuts, esp. if you're not used to that kind of courseload.</p>
<p>My son did three APs each year, 10th-12th. Sure, some took more. Take enough APs to demonstrate your willingness to challenge yourself, and that you can do well on the ones you do take.</p>
<p>To Matt: I do actually want to take the business courses and I really want to join FBLA.</p>
<p>And, would it be okay not doing a science course senior year and taking AP Stat instead? I was planning on taking AP Physics and I know the teacher REALLLLLLLLY well. Like, we're basically friends in an odd sort of way. But, I don't actually enjoy science and I think AP Stat would be more useful for business.</p>
<p>ap stats isnt useful for ****.</p>
<p>Actually, I think AP Stats WILL be useful.
I'm a Junior as well, [and I also want to go to Wharton haha] and am taking AP Stats this year. I really like the class and think it's interesting.
Some may say it's an "easy" AP, but frankly, if you look at the main classes you will be taking your Freshman year at Wharton, statistics is one of them.
I think taking AP Stats will help you once you get in to Wharton, because at least then you will have taken some collegelevel statistics course that has hopefully prepared you for the statistics class at Wharton.</p>
<p>That is just my opinion.
:)</p>
<p>yeah, ap stat was one of my fives....</p>
<p>and i never get tired of staring at the bimodal distributions of girls on campus</p>
<p>To put it simply, 1 AP class won't make a difference. Do you think the admissions committee is going to pick up a multi-faceted application and can it simply because you took 2 and not 3 AP classes your junior year?</p>
<p>But about AP Psych - no kidding. The material is a joke.</p>
<p>The IB Psych exam, on the other hand, is a different story.</p>
<p>That's exactly my predicament, too. My friends are taking 4 or 5 AP classes while I am only taking Lit and USH, and they're taking Psych to get an A.</p>
<p>Don't worry-it's fairly common!</p>
<p>I'm just worried that on the common app, where the counselor checks how heavy my course load, she won't mark my course load as that high since so many people at my school take a ton. she told me when i asked her about my problem that "some people just can't handle three." and i was thinking "uh thats not the problem..."</p>
<p>cost benefit analysis. tough question</p>
<p>so basically you are torn between taking business and another elective at the cost of a few AP courses.</p>
<p>if you think you would genuinely lookfoward to that class/fbla throughout the year and it would give you strong preparaion for having a taste of busin/whart before apps, do that. or you can have the generic but challenging option of the APs.</p>
<p>what is your performance on previous AP's? if you haven't taken many or any, two really may be a good thing. Though, 5 senior year sounds intense as 'heck'. can someone confrim that even at great/big high schools, very very few people take 5 AP's. It sounds strategic, almost too strategic. Reflect on your performance.</p>
<p>I (and many members of my graduating class) took 5 AP's in my senior year, and got all 5's and A's(Calc BC, Phys C, Bio, Eng. Lit, Gov). It really wasn't that hard. I genuinely liked all of the classes except for AP Lit, which was mandatory.</p>
<p>If you're concerned that your counselor or colleges won't see your curriculum as the most challenging, you should be. It isn't. Business classes in high school aren't taken very seriously, especially by Wharton. They won't prepare you for Wharton - and actually AP's will. If you're trying to make this decision based upon taking the heaviest courseload, you should be in all AP classes.</p>
<p>Now, that's not always the best course of action. If you really think you'd be more interested in business classes, take them. It's not going to serve you well to take difficult AP classes that you don't like, but you have to weigh the benefits of taking classes you like vs. taking classes that will get you somewhere.</p>
<p>ill leave the whartonvising to the whartonvisers.</p>
<p>iceman, this bogey is all yours</p>
<p>Well my counselor has told me to do the business class and not ap stat and says it's more useful and really shows you how a business is managed and stuff. Would AP Stat be easy enough to take as an 8th course online senior year? </p>
<p>And yes, I really want to do FBLA. I already talked to the teacher/sponsor and I think it would be fun and something I'd enjoy doing.</p>