Hi all, I’m new to the forums and this is my first post. I am a current junior at a fairly small Catholic high school in PA, and I have course selection finalization coming up (Monday to be exact, lol). Right now I am enrolled in an all honors/AP curriculum, including AP US history and AP calculus (love both) and I don’t seem to find myself overwhelmed at all (high As in both and did well on practice AP exams). My question is this: next year, I have the option to take AP Calc BC and AP physics C through an online program (my high school doesn’t offer such classes-net enough kids); does anyone have any experience in taking online classes in high school, especially ones as rigorous as these? Also, and I know this is subjective, does anyone think this is too much? (AP physics 1, AP physics c, AP lit and comp, AP Calc BC). I love the rigor of these classes, and as I plan on going to school for aerospace/mechanical engineering, I’d like to take Calc BC as opposed to AP stat ( what my school offers). Thanks for the help in advance.
Vince
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I’m a full time online student! Although I didn’t take the specific classes you mentioned, I did take honors physics and precalc online last year and honestly, I would not recommend taking either online. It’s extremely difficult to take any kind of math course online, in my opinion, because you do not hVe the teacher there to show you equations and write out problems on the board. If you’re really great at math, this might not be a problem for you though. Hope this helps! @VinceBurke98
I took Algebra 2 and Pre-calc online and I was fine, but Calc BC and Physics C are much scarier classes to take online IMO.
Thanks @JamieH and @snowfairy137 . I decided a few days ago that I would take AP physics 1/B in school and take AP Calc BC online. I love math and I this’ll be fine