Sophomore Classes

If I am planning to take PE Weights, AP Bio, AP English, Accel PreCalc, Spanish 2, AP World History, and ASB as a Sophomore, but can only have 6 instead of 7 classes, which class should I drop out? Thank you.

What is ASB? Why are you taking AP English and AP Bio as a sophmore? Have you already taken regular/honors bio, chem and physics? Usually students begin AP sciences after a class in each of the three branches of science. If you take AP English Lang and AP Lit sophmore/junior year, what English would you take as a senior?

Core courses are the most important - math, science, english, history, and foreign language. So, drop either PE weights or ASB.

ASB is Student Council, a leadership class. And Im taking Pre AP English rn and Biology, so Im planning to take AP Bio and AP Language/Lit next year, and Ill take IB English for Junior and Senior year.

Sorry Im new to this forum so forgive me for any stupid mistakes I make.

ASB is Student Council, a leadership class. And Im taking Pre AP English rn and Biology, so Im planning to take AP Bio and AP Language/Lit next year, and Ill take IB English for Junior and Senior year.

What is required by your school to graduate? At my D’s school, PE, science, math, history, and English would have been mandatory. And with at least 3 years of a language being important for college, that would also be “semi-required”.

Does your science class have a lab require the the consumes more time?

Is PE a required class the entire year? We require 1/2 year, and she takes advantage of 2 d/wk half year and 3d/wk the other half, interleaved with science lab.

Is 6 courses normal? Our school has 9 periods and one is lunch, so everyone has time for 8 classes. 6 seems really restrictive. As you’re discovering. How does anyone take any music, arts, etc., electives?

ASB sounds like what would be required to be dropped, if PE and the others are graduation requirements. But I don’t se how anyone at your school could ever take it.

Yea, we have only 6 classes and it sucks. PE is required only for 2 years.

Can you do PE in summer school? My daughter’s school only requires one year of PE and she (along with most of her friends) did it in summer. Honestly, it was fun for them, and I liked knowing she was being active from 9-3 every day for a few weeks. Once per week they’d spend the day on an outing such as kayaking. So, more like summer camp than school.

Sounds like either PE or ASB has to go, based on personal preference. Everything else is core coursework for college admissions.

This assumes you are planning on college, want an appropriate transcript, etc.

I say drop ASB. Activities like that SHOULD be after school. It’s dumb of your school to have that as a class and not an after school club.

Talk to your school and see if you can also take PE over the summer or online. IMO you need to also take some sort of art/music class in high school, many college like to see at least 1 year of fine arts, and some high schools require students to take 1 fine art.

This is really something your guidance office can help you with because they know all the required classes at your school and the required courses at nearby colleges.

I’m guessing you need PE as a graduation requirement so if so don’t drop it unless you find out for sure you can take it online or over the summer for your school (not all schools allow it so all that matters is what your own school allows).

Six classes is a bit small. I would plot out a quick chart for each year - fill in all your graduation requirements, add any missing core classes depending on what level of college you plan to apply to that you may not have and see what space you have left for electives. I would talk to your guidance counselor but chances are more colleges want to see an art/music type elective over ASB. When colleges say they are looking for leadership it is usually not a leadership class they are referring to.

Depending on what is allowed by your school and available to you perhaps you can take a dual enrollment class in addition to your school day, online high school class etc.