senior year science?

Applying to College
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I’m a junior in high school looking to apply to mainly east coast colleges (NYU, Northeastern, Boston College, Boston University, , Emerson, Georgetown, UCI, UCLA, USC, Chapman, George Washington for example) and I’m signing up for my senior year classes. I don’t want to take a science because I do not want to take AP Chem and I don’t want to take regular chem either (I can also take Honors Human Anatomy but I’m terrible at memorizing information)
Senior year classes:
AP Lit
AP Calc BC (In Honors Alg 2/Trig right now but taking Calc 1 over summer so I can understand Calc BC)
AP Comp Sci
Photo (for my fine art)
Journalism (most likely going to be co-Editor in Chief next year)
Gov and Econ through community college

I’ve already taken AP Bio and AP Environmental Science and am currently in AP Physics. However, science is not a subject that is super interesting to me so I’d rather not take it.
I’m looking to be a business major. Do I need to take a science my senior year? I’m worried that I won’t get into colleges or seem competitive enough because I’m not taking a science. I talked to my physics teacher and she did say that because I am taking AP Comp Sci that will provide a challenge so it doesn’t appear as if I’m slacking off, but I’m worried. Any suggestions?

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  1. Many colleges do like to see a sequence of bio, chem, and physics taken in HS.
  2. You can google the common data set of each college you plan to apply to (common data set ) and look at section C to see how many required/recommended sciences classes each school wants to see.
  3. I would probably take non-AP chemistry.
  4. speak to your guidance counselor about this as well.
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For the schools you listed, they will want to see some level of chemistry. Take regular or honors chem. No need for AP.

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I think you should have exposure to chemistry and it sounds pretty clear that you won’t get it in college, so now is the time!

I second the recommendations above – take plain old chem. You have enought AP classes , including math ones, that you don’t really gain anything from taking one in a subject that doesn’t interest you.

But don’t leave high school with a critical knowledge gap either. You never know, especially going into business, when basic knowledge in any science will be necessary to understand something or to advance a conversation.

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Chiming in…take some level of chemistry.