<p>I'm a sophomore this year and this is my schedule for junior year:
AP US History
AP English Lang & Comp
Algebra 2 (Might be Algebra2/Trig if I pass the CST and benchmarks with an advanced)
Chemistry
Spanish 3 (Maybe not if I get to take it at a community college this summer, but it is not likely that i'll get in)
AP Psychology or Journalism. I think I'll do Journalism and self-study AP Psychology.
Health, 'cause I haven't taken Health yet so I'll just get it over with.</p>
<p>Sigh. I should have taken Chemistry sophomore year. I am so limited on what AP classes to choose now. I wanted AP Bio but I can't take it. Is this schedule good enough for UCLA, UC Berkeley?? Thanks :)</p>
<p>Wow this is crazy…we have the same exact schedule if you plan on taking journalism (I’m not self-studying AP Psych though). And I don’t have to take health. But other than that, yeah. </p>
<p>Algebra 2. I’ll double up my senior year to take trig and Pre-Calc.</p>
<p>Not 100% sure, my most selective college I’ll apply to will probably have a 20% acceptance rate or so. I’ll also have 3 AP’s done and 3 dual enrollment classes by the time I finish high school too, so just because one part of my application is weak (math) doesn’t mean I’ll get rejected. Same for you, just do the best you can.</p>
<p>Are you genuinely interested in mathematics and respectful of the field for its inherent intellectual worth, or are you just complaining that you think your progress in classes is imbalanced?</p>
<p>Ugh. At my school, you have to complete algebra 2 before taking anything else. So I can’t take algebra 2 this summer. All I can hope for is to get into alg2/trig next year. If I don’t, I’ll be taking pre-cal as a senior. Sigh. So bummed.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with that exactly? Most people at my school didn’t even make it to algebra 2 by the time they graduated. And for most schools pre-calc is the highest non-college level math class.</p>
<p>If you really feel that bad about it, take a summer class. In the area where I live, Alg II is a sophomore year class and Pre-Calc is the junior year class.</p>
You’re part of a generation for which the web has overtaken more of the net intellectual product of the human race than ever before. You have the luxury of Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram MathWorld, Maths Stack Exchange, free and pirated textbooks, Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and enough resources to occupy all your time for many years if you do nothing but mathematics for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>And you complain that when you advance your mathematical knowledge, you’ll be a year or two older than some colleges expect students to be when they reach that level.</p>
<p>You have problems way deeper than your academic schedule. The only thing holding you back is your lack of initiative to find information, internalize it, and become a better person from it.</p>
<p>Pre-calc as a senior is completely normal. so is chemistry as a junior. Your schedule is still tough, with 3 APs. If you aren’t doing a math-related field, it doesn’t matter if you aren’t two years ahead in math. If you are, starting college in Calc 1 is not a big deal, it is about as common as people starting calc 3 and up (as engineers/science majors, at a top public school, in my experience). Which means common, though calc 2 is the most common starting point—and the most failed class on campus. Anyway, you’re fine.</p>