<p>So I'm worried that the courses that I'm picking won't be of use to get me into a Pham. D program.</p>
<p>My current choices that I've narrowed down to are:
AP Econ/Gov
Ap Lit
AP Calc or AP Stats
Sociology
Physiology</p>
<p>My counselors want me to take AP Stats rather than AP Calc (since I struggle with math) but I've realized that if I want to pursue medicine I definitely need Calc.</p>
<p>I've already picked Physiology and Sociology which I'm really happy about - but I'm concerned about whether it's "worth" taking AP humanities because my major basically deals with science and math, not the arts. (Calc is also going to take up a lot of my time)</p>
<p>Humanities is easily my strong point but it's still a class and I don't want too much of a load in fear that I wont be able to maintain a good GPA.</p>
<p>Basically what I'm trying to say is is it worth taking the AP humanities classes rather than the honors classes, and should I listen to my counselors and take stats instead?</p>
<p>you can still get into a good medical school with STATs my dad is a doctors and he uses STAT everyday. AP calc would look better but if you know you would be successful then i would not take it. I think AP english and your sociology and physiology classes are important because you would have to know how to read and interact with other people especially in the medical field. I would also take science courses instead of the AP humanities. It would be like applying to an engineering program but you only have arts on your high school transcript. colleges like to see students challenge themselves with science course and also take courses that you are interested in not the ones you can get an A in but regret because you won’t be prepared for the science courses of your freshman year of college</p>
<p>It’s true that science is important and I have already taken AP Bio and Chem - I’m also counting Physiology as an extra year of science too - so I see what your saying. It was just the concern of Math dominating over Humanities in the amount time I have to offer my classes.</p>
<p>(I was thinking about purchasing a review book for Calc to ease up the material since that really helped for Bio too)</p>
<p>Personally I would do stats because for senior year your already going to be stressed out with applications and decisions and you do not want to be spending day in and out trying to comprehend CAL if math is hard for you. colleges offer cal 1,2,3 maybe you could go down that path</p>
<p>No I definitely recommend going with AP Calc, especially if it’s BC. Most colleges honestly prefer to see students take calc during high school, and it’s generally viewed as more impressive than just opting for stats. Even if you’re bad at math, you still want to challenge yourself as much as possible and it would be advantageous to do so before college. </p>
<p>You’re going to have to take Calc in college, so it’ll at least be advantageous to struggle with it in high school rather than in college. Medical pursuits tend to require calculus more heavily than statistics as well. It’s usually more applicable in math requirements. </p>
<p>And tbh other than that your schedule doesn’t seem too overwhelming. Dealing with college applications will be tedious regardless, but it’s not like taking stats instead of calc will help you to be less stressed out with apps/decisions. But it’s completely up to you. Good luck</p>
<p>EDIT: You may also want to consider AP Physics B. You seem fairly focused in the sciences, and you can expect to be taking some basic physics in college if interested in medicine/pharm</p>
<p>Try looking at some introductions to derivatives and integrals online and solving some simple problems to wrap your head around it. The most important bits you’ll have to know for the whole class are that you derive a term by multiplying it by its exponent and lowering the exponent by one (e.g. derivative of 3x^2 is 6x), that integrals are the opposites of derivatives (e.g. integral of 6x is 3x^2), a few basic trigonometric derivatives, and something called the Chain Rule, which is pretty easy too. Obviously that’s not all you’ll have to know, but it’ll come up a lot and be helpful.</p>