<p>I'm planning my schedule for next year and I was wondering if this lineup looks impressive enough. I'm looking at some competitive states schools and a few privates.</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC
AP Physics B
AP Lit
AP World History
AP macro micro
plus two electives that will probably be honors level</p>
<p>Yeah. You could always self-study Physics C, too. But I warn: you may stop caring into the second semester, senior year.</p>
<p>I also dislike the idea of a reading intensive history class senior year. I’m super glad I didn’t schedule one (granted, my schedule wouldn’t allow it anyways).</p>
<p>How much more work would physics C be? And would I need to know calculus before I took it?</p>
<p>Just some basic differentiation and integration. You don’t really need to know that much for the mechanics part, more for E&M. Chances are, though, that you’ll have learned all the basics of calculus by the end of fall semester, just in time to start self-studying E&M in the spring (having, of course, studied mechanics in the fall).</p>
<p>Alright thanks</p>
<p>Definitely. I know people who have been accepted to prestigious schools while only taking 3 AP classes their senior year and no honors classes.</p>
<p>^It all depends on the context of your school. If you take a couple junior year, a couple senior year, when you could have taken five each year, top colleges will not be impressed by your schedule in terms of rigor. </p>
<p>Though I doubt you could make your schedule that much more rigorous without going overboard, OP. And honestly, your rejection will not come down to not having added an extra AP to that list. Relax.</p>
<p>I honestly would not recommend self-studying E&M, though I’m not really an E&M person to begin with. Mechanics is self-studyable since Calculus BC’s curriculum delves into Physics topics (mainly the relationship between position, velocity, acceleration, distance, etc.) as well. Past that, the only part that really needs to be self-studied is rotational motion, since that’s not covered in Physics B.</p>
<p>C:E&M, however, covers quite a bit more stuff than B does (RC circuits, Dielectrics, etc.) that seem much more complicated than rotation. I’d say that self-studying C:E&M is probably not feasible while self-studying C:Mech is.</p>
<p>It’s December…</p>