Senior Schedule Problems

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Originally, my senior schedule was going to be:

College Calculus 3/DFQ (Dual Enrollment)
AP Literature
AP European History
AP Environmental Science
AP Psychology
AP Art History
AP Government

I am very interested in social studies classes and want to pursue a political science or history major in college. However, because of scheduling conflicts I can not take AP Art History or AP Government. I don’t know what classes to replace those courses with since the only AP classes I have left are not related to my interests. Here are some of the options:

AP Statistics
PLTW Aerospace or Digital Electronics (Dual Enrollment Engineering Courses)
AP Biology or Chemistry (Each class is two periods which is not preferable in my opinion)
Sociology 1/2 (Regular class)
French 2 (I already finished all the Spanish classes at my school and got to AP Spanish Literature, but I could skip a year in French because of my Spanish knowledge)
I could also try to take AP Government or AP Art History Online, but online classes are bit too expensive

What classes do you think are my best options? Currently, I am leaning towards AP Statistics and Digital Electronics.

2

Do you have the necessary prerequisites for the PLTW classes? Each school is different, but ours won’t let you just sign up for them senior year.

3

I think your choices sound fine. You may want to ask the guidance counselor to note the scheduling conflicts you had in his/her letter of recommendation to college.

4

Statistics will generally be useful in social sciences, although you can take a calculus based statistics course in college if you want.

What conflicts with AP government and AP art history?

5

Can you take one from AP art history and AP gov?

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Question: If you are taking Calc 3 & 4 and PLTW courses, why are you not taking an AP Bio/Chem/Physics instead of of AP Env Sci?

If you are interested in Poli sci/history, why take Calc 3&4? Why not take AP stats and then take whatever else you want?

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@Groundwork2022 Yes, I have all the prerequisites for PLTW since I took the Intro to Engineering class freshmen year and take advanced math.

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@ucbalumnus Calc 3/DFQ and AP Government conflict since both are the same period and are only offered one period. I chose Calc 3 despite my interest in politics because AP Government is know to be a really easy and pointless class at my school.

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I don’t really want to take a double period science because those are in the morning only and would mess up my schedule completely. Plus I’m more interested in environmental science that physics, chem or biology. I had the option of taking AP Gov or Calc 3 and I chose Calc 3 because it is more rigorous. AP Gov is kinda a joke at our school because it is very easy. I can’t take AP Art History because not enough kids signed up for the class.

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It doesn’t matter that AP Gov is “known to be easy at [your] school”. Adcoms don’t know and don’t care. It’d make more sense for you to take AP Gov.

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I agree, with your interests, and potential major, AP Gov and AP Stats would make more sense than Calc 3 and no AP Gov.