<p>I have to pick a senior year schedule, and am looking to balance academics with a personal life. This year, I took way too many classes and did too many activities, and don't have much personal time. Next year, I would like more free time and time to do college apps, while still maintaining a slightly rigorous course load. With that in mind, the tentative schedule is.</p>
<p>AP Physics C
College Humanities
AP Biology
AP Calculus
AP Chemistry
AP Chinese 4
Honors Orchestra
1 Semester-Eastern Religions
2 Semester-AP Geography</p>
<p>Other options that I would be interested in for senior year are AP Lit (1 semester class), Philosophy (1 semester class), APUSH (Yearlong), and Microecon (1 sem). It is good to note that I already took Macroecon last year. I guess I will put my junior schedule up for reference.</p>
<p>AP Statistics
Pre-Calculus
Honors Orchestra
AP Euro
College English
Anatomy and Physiology
Chinese 3
AP Physics B
US History</p>
<p>I would like to know if I should switch anything out in my senior schedule. Is this too much, too easy? The classes I am dead set on taking though are AP Chinese and AP Calculus. Feel free to suggest swapping anything else out. It might be good to mention that I am going into a science field in the future. Not sure what area, but it could be engineering, biology, physics, or neuroscience. Also planning on minoring in Chinese in college as well.</p>
<p>Uhm… 3 sciences in one year? That’s going to be pretty difficult. Maybe you could drop one and pick up one of the classes you listed as alternatives. The rest of your schedule looks like it would leave you free time though.</p>
<p>5-6 APs, including the 3 hardest science classes, and a college class and you say this is “freeing up” your schedule. Are you a ■■■■■? This schedule is insane!! There’s no need for that. Drop Physics C for something easier at least.</p>
<p>Haha. No this is not a ■■■■■. I thought that this schedule is easier than my last year schedule, since I thought that AP Bio and Calculus would be easy. I guess AP Chem and AP Physics C are pretty hard, so I shouldn’t take them in the same year. Does anyone know how much harder Physics C is from B? Since I am doing fairly well in B right now. I thought all my other classes were fairly easy (especially the social studies ones), so I thought everything would balance out. Maybe not, so I might reconsider Physics C/AP Chem…Thanks for the replies though!</p>
<p>Are you doing Calculus AB or BC? I think AB should be pretty managable, but BC will definitely be time consuming. </p>
<p>I really wouldn’t recommend Chem and Physics C in the same year. You already have an AP Physics and you’ve probably already taken chem, so just pick one of them and fill the other slot with a free period or an easier class. I’ve heard that Physics C is significantly harder than B (I haven’t taken it but I know people in it). It’s very mathy and involves a lot of calculus, so if that’s your strength then go with that. Chem is also math-based but less so, it’s more of a matter of if your brain absorbs chem easily. </p>
<p>At this point, I highly doubt adding an extra AP science will help your app. Colleges want to see a difficult schedule and great ECs, but taking one additional science class won’t do anything but make your life hell, imo. Other than the OD on science thing I think the schedule looks great. Just take AP Lit/Philosophy or AP Macro or something easyish like that. Or APES if that’s available.</p>
<p>Unless you’re really, really into Physics and plan on studying engineering, mathematics or a hard science, there isn’t much of a point in taking Physics C. From what I’ve heard, Physics C is basically Physics B with calculus involved. </p>
<p>Also, calculus is hard or easy depending on the teacher…BC calc is basically AB + a few random topics added. If you get a solid grasp on calculus, I think you shouldn’t have too much difficulty in calc based physics in college, or at least that’s what I’ve heard from people. </p>
<p>I’d recommend picking 2 out of the three AP sciences and adding in an easier humanities class. After all, it’s your senior year and you should enjoy it somewhat! </p>
<p>I agree with the above poster, 3 sciences won’t make much of a difference if your grades drop. Take the 2 you like the most (I know people who have done AP chem and Physics C together, during junior year no less and aced them, but you should think about what your goals are and decide accordingly).</p>
<p>Sorry for the late reply! I am taking Calculus AB. Your right alwaysleah, I also heard that AB is manageable. I was thinking of dropping AP Chem, since the teacher is horrible (I had him for regular chem) and because I don’t like chemistry. I’m planning on going into Biomed Engineering now, so I figured that Physics C would be helpful. Plus, that class is an independent study, so all the tests and quizzes are take home ones.</p>
<p>APUSH is out the window now. I’m taking Euro at school and self-studying for the World Exam this year, so I feel that I don’t need to take any more history classes, since I’m not going into that field.</p>
<p>I’ll probably replace AP Chem with AP Lit and Philosophy since they are both fairly easy at my school. Thanks for all the advice everyone!</p>
<p>It looks like you don’t have an English class and colleges want to see English every year. I would recommend dropping a class such as eastern religions for ap lit just so you have English. Also you should probably take apush. If I would suggest taking out ap physics c just because you already took physics b and replacing that with apush.</p>
<p>Eh, I recommend keeping Physic B unlike everyone else here. Also Most colleges want to see 4 years of English and Math. From the look of thing you lookl like you’re interested in Science. It doesn’t seems much like me, As you can also change your schedule if you think you won’t make it.</p>
<p>Your senior schedule looks a larger time suck than your junior schedule, as well as being more difficult. I’d drop AP Bio, but since you said that the teacher for AP Chem is terrible and you don’t like the material in the first place, it would probably make more sense to drop that.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input everyone! I tried adding some things based on everyone’s suggestions, but because of scheduling conflicts,this is my schedule</p>
<p>AP Physics C
College Humanities
Honors Orchestra
AP Bio
AP Psych
AP Calc AB
AP Chinese 4
AP Chem</p>
<p>I guess my school canceled AP Geography and I couldn’t take Eastern Religions, so I took AP Psych to fill my social studies requirement. Probably good since it’s kinda like a science class.</p>
<p>I couldn’t take AP Lit, since it conflicted with AP Bio and AP Chinese, so I had to take Humanities to fill my 4 years of English requirement. </p>
<p>I didn’t drop chem, since I wasn’t able to take Lit/Econ anyways, so there wasn’t another class that I wanted to take. My counselor also convinced me not to drop it…I’m probably not going to take the AP exam. It’ll be good just to get some knowledge before college, since I’ll probably have to take a chem class if I go into science.</p>
<p>Also a final question, do colleges consider Humanities an English credit? My school does and it is the next hardest English class after AP Lit. The only other English classes offered at my school are much less advanced (Sports Lit, Creative Writing, Speech, Myth and Legend, etc.) Will colleges look down upon me taking Humanities or will they realize that stuff (like schedule conflicts) come up and prevent me from taking classes such as AP Lit?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help in helping me make my schedule! I took into consideration all your comments, but scheduling conflicts prevented me from taking a lot of the classes that I had wanted to :(</p>