<p>Hello everyone, thank you for taking a minute to read this.</p>
<p>I am taking the most challenging classes available to me, I can not take math higher than ALG II, so I will most likely dual enroll with my local CC to take PreCalc, I know the coarse material for ALG II anyway.</p>
<p>I'm attending a trade school, currently studying Electronics Technology (Electrical, Engineering and Electronics.) (3 Credits)
It is the most difficult coarse I am taking, as it involves high level math and science. </p>
<p>Along with this I am taking, AP Psych, Honors Eng 11, Physics (weighted as an honors), and Statistics.
Unfortunately I can only take one AP coarse this year. I was supposed to take AP Chem and Physics both this year, but scheduling got in the way..</p>
<p>My school offers 4 AP classes, next year I will be taking 2 of them. So I would have taken 3/4 of the offered AP classes.
My question is, does it matter when I take the AP classes? Does my situation with math and AP classes render me less "competitive?"
Some say that junior year is the most important, I agree but it is simply not possible for me to take more than one AP this year. </p>
<p>Thank you, and I apologize for this lengthy post.</p>
<p>p.s.
my ec's are football, robotics, science olympiad, student ambassador program (giving tours, speaking to younglings, etc)</p>
<p>i will be specific; I’m a sophomore at MIT. I took the only AP given in 10th grade- world history. 11th grade I also took only 1- AP US history Besides theAP I took regular physics- a required course and algebra ll/trig. And in my last year I skipped pre-calc and took AP calc instead and AP chemistry.
These are the AP classes that I didn’t take that were given in my school: Statistics, literature, biology, psychology, and government. Some didn’t fit into my schedule and some I wasn’t interested in.</p>
<p>@rothstem This is an extremely late response on my part, but may I ask, how you skipped pre-calculus and took AP Calc, I am interested in doing so, I am motivated enough to learn the material on my own, thanks.</p>
<p>Pre-calculus is a made-up course that is meant for students either not ready for Calculus or just want to take an easier class. Your school may be strict and may not allow you to skip it but my school let me skip it with a recommendation from my algebra 2/trig teacher. Ask the head of the math department what you need to do in order to skip it. Basically, I didn’t think MIT would even look at my application if my school offered calculus but I didn’t take it. Since l was already a senior, I didn’t see any other choice, so I’m glad that I was given permission. </p>
<p>We don’t have any AP courses or honors courses or any of that (SMALL school, however, we do have some dual credit “trade” courses through a local CC, like welding, med-term, nursing, etc.). We get separated after 7th grade year in math and I was in the upper class (of 6/7 people, so yeah) and I jumped ahead of that my junior year and took both pre-calculus and calculus, got like 97% and 100% respectively, at the same time. As a senior I am taking “calculus” again (that’s what it is on my transcripts), but it is an independent study more or less where I am going back through the calculus book and going through the chapters we went through and solidifying that knowledge and will eventually go ahead of what we got to last year. I am also using another higher level math book and learning concepts that I didn’t get the chance to learn or won’t get the chance to learn had I stayed in the set class.</p>
<p>So, it is realistically possible to take calc without Pre-calc. The only real crossover is trigonometry (which is usually covered in pre-calc courses) and that can be learned pretty quickly depending on how hard you want to work.</p>