<p>I believe this is the right place to post this and not "AP test preparation." </p>
<p>My expected schedule for next year:</p>
<p>French 3
AP English Literature
AP Microeconomics / Honors Government
AP Physics B
AP Environmental Science
AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics</p>
<p>As you can see, 6 APs would most likely result in scheduling conflicts. On top of that, Calculus BC won't be added until the middle of summer, possibly after the school's master schedule has (or is it have) been set up. If such is the case, it'll seriously scramble up my schedule.</p>
<p>At my school, there's 5 periods of Env. Sci. and 4 periods of Eng. Lit., so those will not likely be involved in any conflicts. But there's only 2 periods of Physics and Statistics, and 1 period of Microeconomics and Calculus BC.</p>
<p>More likely that not I will have to drop 1, or in the worst scenario - 2, APs. Eng. Lit. and Env. Sci. will be secure (unfortunately Env. Sci. is my least desired AP of the 6). I will keep Calculus BC no matter what, even at the cost of others APs. That leaves Statistics and Microeconomics/H Government, and AP Physics B. </p>
<p>I want to double major in college - one in international studies or something similar, so that makes me want to keep H Government/Econ (also the prestige of the class at my school since there's only 1 period of it), and the other one in Astrophysics/Astronomy, or something Physics + Math related. So I highly doubt I will be OK to drop AP Physics, and it's my most desired AP along with Calculus. I don't want to drop Stats either since I like math.</p>
<p>The best possible situation is that dropping Env. Sci. will somehow help, but it will be unlikely to. So I'm quite stuck here. Help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>You know schools change scheduling periods in developing the master schedule. Were those periods for this year? Or are they for next year? If the former, then remember that they plan a master schedule based on your scheduling choices.</p>
<p>Yes they do, but more likely than not Calculus will be put in after the master schedule has been set. That will cause problems because my schedule will be scrambled, which may lead to dropping an AP class. Due to budget crisis, my school for the most part only allow classes that will have the maximum number of students, so that adds to the problem.</p>
<p>The number of periods for next year won’t change.</p>
<p>I mean do they know when those periods will occur? If that doesn’t change, then something’s up.</p>
<p>No they don’t know when those periods will occur.</p>
<p>I think some background information will be in order here:</p>
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<li><p>According to this year schedule, there should be no conflicts; however, they plan to move Calculus BC to a different period next because it conflicted with Advanced Journalism this year. Moving Calculus BC might screw my schedule up.</p></li>
<li><p>Because of the budget crisis, the periods at my school isn’t exactly flexible. They try to put as much students in a class as possible, so switching periods is extremely difficult after the master schedule has been set up.</p></li>
<li><p>6 APs at my school is practically unheard of. So I won’t be getting support from counselors, and the master schedule at my school is not adjusted to accommodate so many APs, so this situation, I think, has came up rarely at my school. At most, I suspect there will be only 5 people taking more than 5 AP/H per year, so the schedule doesn’t exactly favor us.</p></li>
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<p>What worries me is scheduling changes after the master schedule has been set. The likelihood of needing schedule changes increase if they change the period for BC (they most likely will).</p>
<p>So in the worst situation, what do you suggest I do?</p>
<p>In the worst situation is dropping your AP you have little interest in, or something you feel you could do without.</p>
<p>However, I feel this school fails you in meeting the scheduling needs of its students.</p>
<p>Yes it does. But I blame it mostly on the budget crisis.</p>
<p>I have interest in… all of them, honestly. I would, though, drop Env. Sci., as my first choice, but unfortunately, like I said, there’s 5 periods of it so out of the 6, it is least likely to conflict.</p>
<p>Considering everything I’ve said, which pit do you think is the shallowest? T_T</p>
<p>Dropping enviro sci is the shallowest. Not a commonly taken AP course iirc. Calc BC is <em>almost</em> required. What do you tentatively plan to do in college?</p>
<p>Yes, but dropping Env. Sci. most likely won’t do anything since it will probably not be involved in any conflicts. Of course, if that will solve a scheduling problem I’d do it, but such situation is unlikely to occur.</p>
<p>I plan to double major in Astronomy/Astrophysics and International Studies/Law.</p>
<p>Ok, plain and simple you cannot drop a science or math. I mean microeconomics could be dropped, but I say in all honesty keep the rigor. See what the school says first. Let them act, and then constantly ***** to them later.</p>
<p>If I could take all 6 I’d definitely do it.</p>
<p>There are 2 problems with dropping Microeconomics:
- I also have to drop Honors Government, a class that is related to my other major.
- I will lose an extra GPA point since I have to take regular, so the highest GPA I can get would be 4.71. I kinda need as much GPA points I can get to make up for my abysmal overall GPA so far (3.5 weighted counting Freshman year, slightly above 4.0 not counting Freshman year).</p>
<p>BTW, will colleges look at GPA of first semester of Senior year?</p>
<p>Right now I’m leaning towards dropping Statistics if I have to. What do you think? That and Env. Sci. are the only ones that seem sensible to drop, but I’m still so reluctant. T_T The other 4 seem so important.</p>
<p>What kind of class is Microeconomics/Government?? Why not Microeconomics/Macroeconomics? I don’t see how Government and Microeconomics are at all related, so why would they teach them both in a class? Or is it just a semester course, and then Government is next semester? In that case, I doubt it would be a scheduling problem, because you could just drop Government and keep Micro.</p>
<p>They’re semester courses. My school doesn’t have Macroeconomics, and next year will be the first year Micro is offered. Honors Government is the one I’d rather have, not Micro. But if I drop one I have to drop the other. In addition, I don’t want to take regulars to bring my GPA down. I mentioned this before, but there’s only 1 period of Micro / H Gov.</p>