Sophomore Year Classes, Too rigorous?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I am a rising sophomore, and I am having trouble picking my classes. I do have a schedule in mind, but I am not sure if it is too rigorous. I want to go to a top college such as MIT, but I am not sure if I am overdoing it.</p>

<p>Summer- Pre-Calculus (online)</p>

<p>School (total 8 Periods; 4x4 schedule, all classes are 1 period each except for AP Physics and Calculus which are 2 each)
AP Physics 1<br>
AP Computer Science (online)(A/B Day)
AP Statistics (A/B day)
Honors English 2
Honors Civics and Economics
Honors French 3
Honors Chemistry
Extra outside of school
AP Calculus AB/BC on Artofproblemsolving.com (very rigorous) (2 hours every Friday from October to April)</p>

<p>The thing is, I really just wanted to replace AP Statistics and Honors Chemistry with AP Calculus, so I would have a lesser coursework, and I could take AP Calculus in school rather than out of school, but the problem is Computer Science is an A/B day class, and I need another A/B day class to match. I could change French to an A/B day class, but then I would have to take it online, and I heard the online classes, especially language, are terrible. Is my current schedule alright? </p>

<p>I need time next year for my extra curriculars including </p>

<p>Chess(tournaments every other saturday, once a month both saturday and sunday, also need perhaps an hour a day practicing)
SAT( maybe 40-60 minutes a week studying for October (already got 2080 on may test),(required for application to private boarding school) )
Science Olympiad (not sure, but need maybe an hour a week)
Math(Studying for AMC 10/12, pretty frequently)
Programming (in addition to AP Computer Science)
Tutoring Chess( 3 hours a week)
Tuesday night chess( 7-11pm every tuesday,maybe I can stop going too frequently)
Physics Olympiad(Prepare for physics olympiad)
Volunteering(every other week or so I volunteer at the local Chess club to teach chess to students)</p>

<p>I have a feeling I will have to either drop some of this, or have a depressing sophomore year. #-o </p>

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<p>bump bump</p>

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<p>I would say only double up on one subject, preferably the one that is more tied to your major so either have one science or one math.</p>

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<p>Are you sure you dont want to take ap calc in school. I don’t think you need stat. Its an easy class. I would advise to at least take out one extracurricular. You’ll end up overwhelming yourself, but you seem like a hard worker so you might be able to handle it. </p>

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<p>I suggest that you drop stats and cs for calc. IMHO learning that would be much easier done in school than from online. This would also lessen you’re workload bc you’re taking one class instead of two and thus leaving more time to develop your ec’s. Take the other two classes next year.</p>

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^^yes. I have done online math courses before and you’ll honestly learn so much more in school.

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Also 2 hours a week on calc is not enough to learn it and get a good score on the AP unless you’re some kind of math savant. If you don’t have time to spend at least an hour a day on it, you need to either forgo it until junior year or drop some other classes to take it in school.

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Drop AP stats /cs and take calculus during that slot.
Better yet:
What’s the plan? If you take calculus sophomore year, what math will you take as a junior and senior? Why not take pre-calculus honors sophomore year, and calculus junior year?
Your plan only work if
1)you have two more years of math you can take after calculus (discrete math, MVC, linear algebra)
AND
2) have a specific reason to do so wrt to future plans, career, personal interest as demonstrated by…