I am currently a sophomore and I’m taking AP physics, AP Calc AB, and chemistry honors. Next year I’m definitely taking AP Calc BC. I’m having a hard time picking from AP Physics C and AP Chemistry. I enjoy both subjects and do well in both. I want to go into the medical field, i like pre med and biomedical engineering as majors. I really want to take AP Physics C, but I also really want to take AP Chem. Can someone please give me some advice/suggestions!
@angie69860 AP Physics 1/2 and Physics C are not a sequence. They cover the same topics (only the math techniques are different) If you successfully complete AP Physics 1/2, score a 5 on the exam, then you are done (in most cases). Likewise, AP Calc AB and BC are not a sequence. If you already have successfully completed AP Calc AB then you might consider something like AP Stats. Does you school offer AP Bio?
@plumazul Yes my school does offer AP Bio, but i take honors biology next year as a junior so the only way i would be able to take it is senior year (which I am). The thing is even if i take ap stats or ap calc bc i still will have an extra space left and i want to take another science course. Also many juniors at my school suggest not to take AP stats because most colleges don’t accept the credits. My school is extremely competitive so most students take all the highest levels of math and science, like if you take AP calc AB almost everyone goes on to AP Calc BC unless they’re a senior which is usually unlikely. I was even planning to take AP multi variable calc in my senior year because that’s what we have after AP Calc BC. The thing with AP Physics C and AP Chem is i just want to take one of those two that would benefit me more, considering the major i want to go into.
Why are you taking honors bio, then taking AP Bio? It seems redundant. I took only AP Bio
If you knew you wanted to go beyond just Calc I, then why didn’t you take AP Calc BC instead of AP Calc AB? Is there a way you can join the AP Calc BC class at midterm so that you are not sitting there taking AP Calc AB over again?
AFAIK, AP Stats is one of the most universally accepted AP classes
Your school is doing it wrong
There is no AP multivariable. If you want to take Calc III in high school, then some college must sponsor it. At my high school, a professor from a local university taught the class during “zero period” (early in the morning)
As I’ve said, Physics 1/2 and Physics C are the same class. You can only get credit for one of those in college. That just leaves AP Chem.
@plumazul there is no way i could have taken Calc BC without learning AB lol. I don’t think my school is doing it wrong considering we’re #3 in my state and #52 in the U.S haha, but oh i thought it was AP multivariable.I know they offer multivariable at my school. Also my school makes sure we take regular class first. For example my freshman year i took physics honors and then went on the take ap physics and it wasn’t really redundant at all. Although the chapters have the same name it goes 1000x more into depth and it’s in 2 dimensions rather than one, while physics C is calculus based.