Hi I’m having trouble finalizing a senior year schedule. My dream school is UNC Chapel Hill. My school has 9 APs offered and so far I’ve taken 3. What I want to take senior year is:
AP Calc AB
Physics H
Iona College Composition I/II
Theology 12 (required)
US Government
For my 6th class I have 4 options:
anatomy and AP psych which are both manageable
AP Bio and AP Spanish which i will probably have a nervous breakdown in
My school offers AP Lit for seniors but it’s sososo much work and I already took AP Lang and schools don’t offer credit for both.
My school also offers AP Euro for seniors but I heard it was the hardest class at my school and I really don’t want to spend my entire senior year doing homework
Do you think this schedule would be enough for UNC??
You’re only taking Calc in senior year? That seems a bit late, especially if its only AP Calc AB, not even AP Calc BC. The rest of your schedule looks very good academically. I recommend AP Bio.
@Foreboding Is it really common for all seniors to take AP Calc? I wasn’t planning on taking it and I don’t even think I could.
For OP - I would take a language your senior year, most colleges will like that. Is there an honors alternative you could take to AP Spanish, if you don’t want to take that? If you don’t take AP Lit, what English class are you taking? I’d also take a AP history over US Government. Could you take AP Psych instead? Its also important to consider how many AP classes you took this year. It doesn’t look good if you are taking three or four right now, and only take one next year.
@LeopardFire At my school, it seems to my knowledge that about 50% of seniors take AP Calc (AB or BC), 10% don’t take it, and the other 40% take it before senior year.
Calculus (honors, ab, or bc) is considered one year ahead compared to the normal high school schedule, where the normal senior year class is pre-calculus and the minimum for college prep us algebra2. Some school systems accelerate their students and allow them to start earlier or study in the summer so some take calculus junior year or even before then, but they’re outliers.
Can you take Spanish at Iona college too? With one semester you’d cover a highschool year’s worth, it would be as rigorous as AP, and it’d be perhaps less lethal than AP at your school?
