<p>I'm currently a junior taking the following courses with these grades:
AP Physics B - 91
Honors Trig/Pre-calc - 89
AP Government - 88
AP English Language - 87</p>
<p>My tentative schedule for senior year:
AP Calculus AB
AP Physics C
AP English Literature
AP US History</p>
<p>Is this too much? I want to get into Carnegie Mellon University. Are there any classes not worth taking for an engineering major? Thank you in advance for your advice.</p>
<p>Well if you haven’t figured this out yet, although I’m sure you have, here is my thoughts.</p>
<p>The Calculus and Physics could be very helpful. However, the english literature and US history isn’t needed. I have heard AP US History tends to be a very tough class with lots of time spent doing reading and papers, so if you had to give up one, i would decide against that. If you could take a computer science course instead, that would benefit you much more!</p>
<p>^tho if you do take the english and history and get credit for them you’ll be so happy when you get to college</p>
<p>^is that really true? I found the humanities classes to be quite interesting and they were also nice gpa buffers and boosts. After a few engineering classes, you get trained so hard that humanities classes and the people in them are complete jokes.</p>
<p>My snr year I took AP Stats (already took bc soph year) Ap Euro Ap English Lit Ap Bio and Ap Econ and took programming at a community college. Its very doable.</p>
<p>Apush aint too bad and the exam is easy.
I got into CMU three years ago. When I was applying to schools I was taught no matter what field you go into, you should take all the classes possible to show you are academically sound. dunno maybe things have changed…</p>
<p>^Agreed with above poster. You want to show that you are well-rounded and not just good at math/science. I think you have a nice senior-year schedule. </p>
<p>I would recommend taking AP Calc BC if at all possible. Also, what major are you shooting for at CMU? I was admitted back in the day for CS (and I took AP Computer Science in High School). </p>
<p>Best wishes,
-DV</p>