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<p>It's time for juniors to choose next year's classes and I was wondering if anybody could give me some advice.</p>

<p>After Honors Bio freshman year, I didn't bother to take science sophomore year thinking I would take Academic Chemistry junior year and AP Physics senior year. It didn't work out that way, since Academic Chemistry overflowed and I ended up in Academic Physics this year. (I couldn't transfer to AP Physics due to scheduling problems.) So for senior year, I'm left with choosing between AP Chemistry and AP Biology. I'm probably gonna end up choosing AP Bio because of various reasons (scheduling being one of them).</p>

<p>So my question is, does it look like you're doing less "work" if you take two life sciences and only one physical science when the rule of thumb is to take all three (bio, chem, and physics)? This is to schools like Stanford and Georgetown.</p>

<p>If it is, do you think taking astronomy over the summer at a junior/community college would "replace" chemistry? It's a four unit course and the UCs accept it as transfer credit.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>SO you havent taken Chem yet, and whats the difference between Academic/Honors? Astronomy wouldnt replace chem, but i would see if you can fit chem in somewhere.</p>

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<p>Academic is 4 points to your GPA, Honors is 5. So Honors is weighted.</p>

<p>I really wish I could take Chem and I would have if I had known better sophomore year, but I'm pretty sure that by taking AP Chem I'm gonna have to give up another one of my AP classes, all of which I really want to take. <em>sigh</em></p>

<p>I should have worded my post better. I didn't mean for astronomy to actually replace chem, but would it count as a physical science that's not physics?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>