Hello, So I am going to select my senior year courses in a week, I have currently a GPA of 3.74 on a 4.0 Scale, and i’m considering to take AP’s to boost my transcript, and these are the classes I’m considering to take: AP MUSIC THEORY, AP US GOV, AP PSYCHOLOGY, AP STATS, and AP ECONOMICS. and by the way, Classical music and politics are my hobbies, so I am not expecting any difficulties in these subjects, and are any of these courses really really tough?
I know nothing about music theory but the other four APs are on the relatively easier side of the AP difficulty spectrum… Stats has given some friends of mine some trouble but in general it really depends on the teacher and how hard you work in each class! I think youll be fine as long as you work hard and dedicate your time to succeed! Maybe buy the barrons or princeton review books to help!
How good are ur aural skills. The “theory” part of Music theory is easy, but the aural is the hard part.
If they all have to do with your projected major or if you just simply don’t want to take them in college then yes.
I am going to major in Civil Engineering and minor in music and take politics and government classes in college
elefish92 , It’s fair to say I’m decent, I’m not perfect, but not poor at that as well.
wrt to Civil Engineering major + music minor + politics/gov classes = not possible. Engineering majors are very structured, with very few electives and no space to have a minor.
Those APs would be doable; AP econ and AP gov are medium-difficulty, AP stats and AP Psych are easy-ish, and AP Music Theory is hard but you said you had a decent background in music theory. The only problem with your schedule is that you have neither foreign language nor science. Econ and gov would count as “doubling up” in social sciences so it’d offset no science, but it doesn’t offset no foreign language.
I have finished 3 foreign languages already, and I am done with languages.
Consider a year from now. It’s nearing the 4th quarter of your senior year and you’ve decided where you want to go to school, etc. Senioritis will most likely be getting to you. Just think about if you want so much work. Dropping just one AP class could definitely lighten your load…
What do you mean “finished 3 foreign languages”… you can’t “finish” a foreign language, and certainly not in high school (where even as a fully bilingual/bicultural student, you can’t get past the C1 CEF level - there’s a whole other level, that takes from 5 to 10 years to master, above that, and requires actually working and navigating complex adult tasks.) And even that isn’t considered “finished”.
If you mean you have 3 AP scores of 5 in 3 different foreign languages, then, yes, you’re done with the college entrance requirements, even if one of these includes a heritage language.