It’s is about time for me to pick my senior classes and I’m still at a loss as to what to take. I know for a fact I will be taking the following classes (school runs on an 4 period block schedule with AP’s on A day/B Day) :
AP Engligh Lit
AP English Lang
Honors Spanish III
Honors Band
My choices for the other three are as follows:
AP US Gov and Politics (online)
AP Comparative Gov and Politics (online)
AP Macro Econ (online)
AP Micro Econ (online)
AP Statistics
AP Calculus (please god no, taught by a bad teacher and I got a B in PreCal)
AP Physics 1 (online)
AP Chemistry (Fantastic teacher, hard class)
AP Biology
Honors Physics
Honors Computer Science (online)
Honors Civics and Economics (Fantastic teacher)
Honors Spanish IV (Great teacher)
I am looking to impress colleges with a strong senior transcript but also have a life and have time to do things outside of school. In the first semester I will be doing marching band until November and then swimming till February and also doing a ton of other stuff (full list of EC’s can be found here; http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1744418-yale-duke-unc-ch-davidson-columbia-p1.html). I am applying to the following schools and quite possibly some other selective colleges with a planned major of journalism or political science:
Yale (SCEA)
Duke
Columbia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Davidson
Northwestern
My journalism adviser, who will also be my AP English Lit and Lang teacher next year said that since I am not planning on going to a science heavy school that I should take AP US Gov and Politics, AP Statistics and Honors Spanish IV. What do you guys think of this plan? I am wary of skipping the AP science because then I wont have a science my senior year. Also wary of taking really hard AP’s online because of the lack of help. GPA is currently about 3.8 UW and 4.5 W.Grades go to a ten point scale next year so that should help with getting an A in some of the harder classes.
What do you guys think I should take?