Senior year schedule

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<p>Hi, I am going to be a high school senior next year and I was wondering which classes I should take. I was also wondering how the classes would look on college applications. What would the colleges think of the classes?</p>

<p>The classes I know that I am going to take...</p>

<p>AP Physics 1
AP English Literature and Composition
World Studies - Hybrid
AP Calculus AB
PLTW Human Body Systems</p>

<p>I have taken three years of Spanish and would like to take a fourth year but I also want to take Chinese as I hear that it is a fun class. I found a summer camp (Concordia Language Villages) that allows you to earn either high school or college credit. I am considering doing that but it's very expensive and four weeks long. If anyone has ever done one of these camps, was it worth it? Was it fun? Do you think that I should go to this camp and then take Chinese 1 through school or just continue on to Spanish 4?</p>

<p>As for electives, I would like to take all of the following but can't decide. I have 1.5 credits left to fill.
PLTW Principles of Engineering (1.0)
Health Career Explorations (0.5)
AP Psychology (0.5)
Sociology (0.5)
Ceramics (0.5) or Drawing and Painting (0.5) - I would really like to take one of these</p>

<p>Also what do you think of my schedule as it is right now? I don't want to slack of during my senior year and I would like to get into some pretty competitive universities.</p>

<p>Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated. </p>

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<p>You’re asking 3 different questions. I’ll go one at a time</p>

<p>Colleges are going to prefer you to have 4 years of Spanish vs 3 years of Spanish and 1 of Chinese.</p>

<p>I have no personal knowledge of CLV, but know people who went and raved about it. I have also heard good things about Middlebury-Monteray language academy, and was thinking of doing it myself last year, but ended up doing another program. However, MMLA is more expensive than CLV.</p>

<p>What both claim is that they can raise you up one level in 4 weeks. So in theory, that is Chinese I, and if there were a way for you to take Chinese II as a senior, without not taking Spanish, that’s something else for you to consider. That’s what I was initially looking to do last year, although in a different langugae.</p>

<p>If you did that, and did the placement test in college, you could potentially skip a semester. Going into college with just Chinese I means you would have to start over from scratch. </p>

<p>I’m not really familiar with PLTW, so I can’t comment on that, but the rest looks OK to me.</p>