<p>It's that time of year again! Time to pick my classes for next year. So far I have:
AP Calc AB
AP Physics C
AP Lang
AP Gov
Spanish 4
??Global Ecology/Planetary Science??
I can't decide whether to take Global Ecology/Planetary Science (semester of each) as an elective. I have plenty of credits so that is not an issue. I know my other courses will be very demanding, but global ecol/planetary science class has no homework and sounds fun. The second semester is taught by my current AP Chem teacher who is awesome (the first semester is taught by my old Honors Bio teacher who was good too) and I plan to ask to write my college recs. He claims it is the best class EVER! If I don't take the class though I will just have a home period, which could be nice since I play a varsity sport in the fall and will be busy with that. What would you do?
Also, how will colleges look at this class in my senior schedule? I hope to attend at top tier university and I have my eyes on the ivies. Does it "bring down" the rigor per se? Given I maintain my A average, I would have a 4.36 gpa with the class but 4.38 without. Is that anything to fret over?</p>
<p>It’s a two hundreth difference! I’m pretty sure that it won’t hurt your chances especially if your colleges take a fairly holistic look at applicants. You have all 5 of the main core classes so that’s great. If you didn’t take the elective, then you’d just have nothing so I feel like something would be better than nothing.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your input! The more I think about it, however, the more tempted I am just to take a free period to save myself some stress.</p>