<p>Hi! I'll be a senior this coming school year and am having some problems with working out my schedule. I'm planning on pursuing a nursing major and am looking at schools like Georgetown, Villanova, and Boston College. So far the AP classes I've taken are AP World History, AP Biology, AP United States History, AP Statistics, and AP Literature, so I'm trying to keep my senior schedule filled with AP's but I'm conflicted about the difficulty level of an entire AP schedule.</p>
<p>As of now, my schedule stands as:
AP Spanish
AP Calculus AB
AP Language
AP Government
IB Environmental (our school allows us to pick and choose between AP and IB classes)</p>
<p>However, since I'm going into nursing my mom advised me to consider taking AP Chemistry instead of IB Environmental since it would pertain more to my major and possibly help me in the long run. But AP Chemistry and AP Calculus are notoriously known throughout my school for being the two hardest AP classes (with AP Physics C), so I don't know if I should take both of them in the same year as they'd both be without a doubt extremely time consuming. In addition to these classes I work outside of school, tutor, and volunteer so I feel like I may be putting too much onto my plate by switching IB Environmental (which I heard wasn't too difficult) for AP Chemistry. </p>
<p>Another option I was considering was sticking with IB Environmental but self studying AP Psychology (our school doesn't offer this) as I heard it was also helpful for those going into nursing. Does anybody have any opinions or advice? I would appreciate any help I can get! </p>