Hello everyone. How are you all today? Hope you’re all well.
To explain what is happening and why I am asking this, every student in my county is required to take regular Economics or AP Micro and Macro Economics. At first, I planned to take AP Micro/Macro Economics in twelfth grade because I am planning on majoring in political science and/or film study, but most students take regular Economics online the summer before 10th grade because the class is considered to be easy and frees up an elective space. I wouldn’t mind taking regular economics, but from what I am aware, economics is very important to political science, and I was worried that this could look really bad. I don’t want to just go by what other kids are doing, but only around thirty students take AP Micro/Macro Economics (my school has 2,700 students), and I wondered if this is a sign it’s not a class for me.
Sorry for asking such a strange question.
Thanks for answering and have a good day!
You need to be part of these 30 kids taking AP micro/macro because colleges will appreciate it and because it will prepare you well for being a social science major in college. 
What else will you be taking?
@MYOS1634 Thank you so much for helping me! To answer your question, I am a ninth grader currently, so I’m not exactly sure what I will be taking in 12th grade. I just thought it is a good idea to sign up for AP Micro/Macro. However, I do plan on taking lots of humanity courses as both of the majors I am interested in have to do with humanities. There are a lot of classes I am deciding between though because there are so much options.
Have a good day!
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Well, if you’re making plans for the rest of high school, make sure that over the course of the next three years plus summers, you have
- biology, chemistry, physics. Any level is fine, it can be regular physics in particular. + one more science , APES would be a fine choice, AP physics 1 is basically the same level as honors physics so see if you can handle it or not and unlike AP bio or AP chemistry AP physics 1 is level 1 in the physics sequence so no pre-reqs.
- honors English + AP Lang ; 4 units of English (or more of they offer English electives : strong writing is very much in demand)
- math through pre-calculus (+ stats, either AP stats or dual enrollment stats. Dual enrollment stats is considered more rigorous.)
- foreign language through level 4 or AP. If you have aptitude and interest, you may want to take level 1+2 of another language, perhaps through dual enrollment or jumping ahead through summer school (IE., take French or German 1 over the summer, French or German 2 during junior or senior year following. Note that college level 1 = high school level 1+2). Depending on your geographical areas of interest, important languages are French and German (western Europe), Russian (Eastern Europe), Spanish and Portuguese (South America), Chinese, Urdu, or Hindi (Asia), Arabic (Middle East, North Africa), French and Arabic or Portuguese (Africa).
- Add as many social science classes as you can, including if possible a mix from ap human geography, AP world history or European history or both, apush, AP gov (us and comparative) , AP economics (micro/macro), AP psychology, sociology, any history or American studies seminar.
- if you can dual enroll, take one philosophy course, one women’s studies or African American studies course, one first year political science seminar.
Take AP. It’s related to what you want to study.
If you wanted to be a physicist and just wanted to dispense with the requirement, the online course would be an option, but I think you’ll be happier taking the AP class at it is important to your key interests. You may get credit in college for a requirement as well which will give you more time to study other things that interest you.
@MYOS1634 Thank you very much for the list! I find it very helpful. I was always wondering how I should take my Science courses, and the explanations for APES and AP Physics 1 were very helpful.
@gardenstategal Thank you for telling me this! I think because of the answers I have received, I will probably not take regular Economics online over the summer.
Have a good day!