(I’m a sophomore, and i want to be a Doctor)
- I am currently in Spanish 2 and recently found out that i will not be able to take Spanish 3(Highest Spanish class at my school) next year because a large number of seniors are enrolling in the class and they get priority. Will me not being able to take a 3rd year of Spanish hurt my chances of getting into a top school?
- Since i will not be able to take Spanish 3 my plan was to join my school Jazz Band but my guidance counselor said that if i took 3 band classes that colleges would think i'm just to lazy to take harder classes. Is this true, if so what other classes should i take?
- At my school you take "Pre-AP" classes in 9th and 10th grade then the AP version in 11th and 12th. I am currently taking Pre-AP chemistry and i am really struggling. In the class we cover the basic topics needed to understand AP chemistry. On the 4 tests we have taken so far i haven't made above a 45 without test corrections. If i am doing this bad in Pre-AP will i be able to pass AP chemistry?
- Most people i see posting on here have taken/are going to take a Physics class in high school. My school doesn't offer any physics classes and my nearby community college only offers physics w/ calc 2. Will it hurt my college application if don't take a physics class?
- A lot of the people who post on here are taking multiple classes in a subject each year(ex AP chem and AP physics). My school only allows students to take 1 class in each subject per year and your other classes have to be a Career technical class or Fine art. Is taking more than one class in each subject the norm?
Ask the school if you can take online Spanish 3 or elementary Spanish 2 at community college.
You’re sort of putting the cart before the horse 
Just get the best grades you can and apply to a good list of affordable colleges. It’s not going to be the college brand name that gets you into medical school. It’s going to be your college GPA and MCAT scores. That’s assuming you still decide to do medical school. You have a LONG time to decide what career path you want. For now, just have fun doing teenager stuff…just don’t blow anything up, OK?
Lots of questions here.
Three years of a single language will be better than two. Won’t you be able to take Spanish 3 as a Senior? Taking it Jr vs. Sr. year won’t matter.
Three band classes at the same time does seem like a lot, as you don’t appear to be looking to be a music major/professional. What else are you taking. Do you have math, science, history, social studies, required gym/health covered? What type of elective are available to you? My D took Anatomy, had molecular biology, organic chemistry available as electives, which would seem to fit.
No one can predict whether you will pass a class a year and a half from now.
Transcripts are evaluated based on what’s available at your school. If they don’t have it, you can’t take it.
No, taking two lab sciences at the same time is far from the norm, and is typically a bad idea, IMHO.
Can you take Spanish at the community college or senior year? Three music classes a day is a lot for a non music major. How many classes do you take a year. If your struggling with pre ap chemistry now and it remains that way when it is time to pick classes for next year (my kid’s school doesn’t pick until spring) AP it may not be an ideal class for you or possibly you won’t meet requirements. Slowly start thinking of alternatives depending on what your school offers but most likely you don’t pick for a while.
Can you list the laser you’re in ight now and what you’re planning on taking next year?
@MYOS1634 By laser i assume you mean my class schedule.
This Year:
Pre-AP English 10
Spanish 2
Pre-AP Chemistry
Pre-AP U.S. History 1
Concert Band
Foundations of Health Science
Pre-AP Algebra 2 & Trip
Marching band(Takes place every day after school for roughly half the year, But counts as a full credit)
Next year:
AP Lang
AP Chemistry
AP U.S. History 1
Pre-AP Pre-Calculus
Spanish 3(Most likely to be replaced by Jazz Band)
Concert Band
Therapeutic & Medical Math
Marching band
You didn’t ask for this but here is what will most likely be my senior schedule
AP Lit
AP Biology
AP Economics(idk if its Macro or Micro (Semester)
AP Government(Semester)
AP Calculus AB
Jazz Band
Concert Band
Medical Internship with CNA Certification
Marching Band
@RichInPitt What do you mean by a Lab Science? the 2 AP science classes at my school don’t spend much time in the lab. They have about 6/7 lab activities in a year and about half of those they are just doing something very basic in the lab for 1 day. That doesn’t seem like many labs.
Lots of colleges recommend or require foreign language to level 3. Some of the more selective ones prefer to see level 4. Some of them may want to see foreign language every year, regardless of level attained.
So if your high school prevents you from progressing to Spanish 3 next year, limiting you to at most Spanish 3 as a senior, you would be at a disadvantage when applying to colleges that want to see “four years” or level 4 of a foreign language.
Yes, some colleges prefer to see all three of biology, chemistry, and physics. That your high school does not offer any physics courses is concerning.
Seems like your high school is of poor quality. This could be a disadvantage in preparation for college work as well as college admissions. Physics in college may assume high school physics knowledge, so you would be at a disadvantage in physics in college.
Is there a way for you to take classes online?
Not taking Physics is a real concern.
What is “medical math”?
Choose 2 max from Jazz Band, Marching Band, and Concert Band.
Make sure to take Spanish 3 senior year if you don’t take it junior year, although it may be difficult to pick after a one year gap and it may make things harder admissions-wise. See if you can take Spanish 3 online. Or, if you take jazz band, see if there’s a Spanish 3 section offered during Marching Band and take that instead?
@ucbalumnus
Will not taking Spanish 4 and Physics still effect my college admissions even though my school doesn’t offer these classes?
@MYOS1634
Medical math is the math done by nurses and doctors when giving doses of medication .Its not difficult math but the purpose of learning it is to be able to do it quickly in you head. It takes place during the last 9 weeks of Therapeutics
@SchoolLover22 Your school doesn’t offer a single physics class!? Wow, colleges definitely want to see it but they can’t exactly dock you if your school doesn’t offer it. Try and take an online course? That will show that you are going out of your way to take it and look good on your college app. Another option might be to self-study for the Physics SAT Subject Test (now I know this will be really hard but I think it is mainly the vast amount of content you will have to memorize so it might be doable, definitely don’t try and self-study the AP exam though). I think you are fine with Spanish especially since your school doesn’t offer it, maybe take the Spanish SAT Subject Test if it isn’t your native language to show that you understand the language.