Not a STEM person, but I’m pretty sure you’ll have to retake a significant portion (if not a majority) of your science and math courses in college, regardless of what scores you get on your exams, if you plan on attending med school.
Your schedules are pretty rigorous, easily 8 or 9 out of 10; when you take all college-level classes junior year, you may experience a noticeable drop in grades across the board, but that seems to be pretty normal.
IB Math HL is only one year at my school, and I think it only renders me eligible to take the AP Calculus BC Exam. I am not 100% sure, but I know it isn’t a normal HL course.
4 for rigor, 9 for commitment required. These are memorization-heavy courses that give the illusion of difficulty.
More work doesn’t make your courseload anymore rigorous; only higher level thinking does.
I checked with my counselor, and she said my schedule is perfectly fine. I can also attain the IB Diploma at the end of my senior year, so I think that legitimizes my school. The two year Spanish course is actually an SL, as I found out yesterday. As a side note, do you know of any place I can check to see what medical schools actually would accept my accumulated college credit?
Personally, I would also see it as that knowing critical thinking isn’t a problem for me. To clarify, however, I would like to know how college admissions personnel would regard it in terms of academic accomplishment, because they do categorize schedules from “least demanding” to “most demanding”.