<p>I will be a senior this fall, but still have some trouble choosing my courses.
I want to go to Ivy schools, especially MIT.
The problem is that i have self-study many APs, such as psy, sta, physics c, so i don't have much options now.
I plan to choose:
AP English literature<br>
AP English language
AP Japanese language (a foreign language to me. I am not a Japanese)
AP World history
So i still need two more courses now. I have self-study Chemistry and Environmental science (for siemens) and got 5. If i choose these two courses to study them again in school, will college fell strange or something?
The only other optioins my school offers and i havn't study are european history and u.s politics. But i really don't like these social studies and i heard that they have many activities.
So what should i do? I need some advices.
Thanks.</p>
<p>Any kind of calc classes? Or stats?</p>
<p>En, no.
I have been trying to find a calculus III class in local university, but it will take me to much time to get there every day. And it is expensive as well.</p>
<p>Well, I was in the IB Program, so many of our classes are laid out and we have few elective options… but for my electives, I chose classes that I actually wanted to take for fun, or to give myself a small break from the workload; i.e. I took a keyboarding class senior year (both because it was easy and I did actually want to improve my typing), instead of taking an AP as an elective to further boost my GPA. I did explain this during one admissions interview for Harvard and the interviewer seemed fine with it. </p>
<p>I definitely would not retake chemistry or environmental science, that would just be redundant. You already have world history so I do not think it’s necessary to load up by taking European as well; however, I would consider politics to add some diversity. After that, I don’t see how taking ONE class that is not AP will kill you. Just something to consider, if you happen to find an interesting course being offered that doesn’t happen to be AP.</p>
<p>I honestly feel that they’re not going to reject/accept you based on the presence or lack thereof of one extra AP class. If you’re not interested in it, it could be harder for you, thus harming your GPA anyway. It is obvious you have challenged yourself, and that is what schools want- but neither do they want mindless, droning workhorses who take as many APs as possible to simply try to prove that they work hard, or to raise their GPA by the weight added.</p>
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<p>lol. The Ivy League is a sports league that includes Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and UPenn.</p>
<p>I agree with ZeinX-taking more AP courses isn’t going to differentiate you, nor is repeating chemistry and and evironmental science a good use of your time. If you are truly interested in both making yourself stand out, and actually developing yourself as a person, try an interesting internship, job or volunteer position in your area(s) of professional interest. Learn a musical instrument or take up a sport or other hobby that makes you different from the crowd. Do something other than study. Ivy league schools and MIT turn down thousands of students every year with excellent grades, test scores and lots of APs because they couldn’t tell them apart from all the other students with those same characteristics.</p>
<p>All right, thanks.</p>