Quick answer needed on course load please :)

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hey guys, I have to decide by tomorrow morning so I was hoping to get some advice from people on this board. I'm currently a senior and am in 4 AP's, one on level course (Environmental Science) and Honors Pre-Cal. I was good at Algebra II, but I changed schools between junior and senior year and as a result am not familiar with the curriculum at my current school. As far as I understand, honors precalculus is based heavily on having a strong background of knowledge and even though I excelled at Alg II, I find that I have never seen most of the stuff in Pre-Cal. </p>

<p>I'm really struggling with the Pre-Cal and I was wondering if you guys think I should switch to on level Pre-Cal and take AP Environmental Science instead. The only reason I hesitate to do this is because I am wondering whether a college will look more favorably upon the honors Pre-Cal over the AP Env. Science. I honestly feel like I'd be lucky to get a B in Pre-Cal whereas I have an A in all my other classes. I am not going to be majoring in anything math/science related, by the way, so I'm not sure how important challenging myself in a math course really is. Thanks for much for the help!</p>

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<p>I think this really depends on your areas of focus.</p>

<p>Clearly if you're environmentally-conscious, and that's going to be written ALL over your resume, then AP viro would be a healthy choice. Since you won't even be a math major or anything, (If I were you) I'd drop the honors math. Although colleges DO look for a challenging course load, that doesn't mean for you to throw yourself into something that you won't have the time and effort for, and something that will CLEARLY hurt your GPA and other things.</p>

<p>Hey, plus AP sounds better, huh? XD</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response.</p>

<p>That is what I'm thinking too; the pro's do not outweigh the con's in this situation. Basically both math and science are pretty useless courses for me as I am almost certain that I will not major in anything related. I was basically just asking if taking regular pre-cal is looks considerably worse than honors as I've read that AP Environmental Science is a joke anyways.</p>