<p>Hey guys my school doesn't offer IB phsyics. Will it be okay if I don't take any physics? I could take it over the summer through Johns Hopkins...</p>
<p>My schedule..
This year: Spanish 3 ib, humanities(world lit) IB, ethics honors/ pre IB (required), biology IB, history of the Americas IB, show choir (music history IB), calculus Honors (took calc IB last year so I had to take this sense the school ran out of math for me. I'll take the ap test as a result of this class), and electives were - musical production, health, and theory of knowledge</p>
<p>Next year: Spanish 4 IB, humanities IB, world religions ib, biology 2 ib, world history IB, show choir (music theory IB), calculus 2 IB, and theory of knowledge (epistemology) ib</p>
<p>I'm looking at Harvard yale Princeton Stanford duke Chicago Notre dame villanova boston college wake forest for college. </p>
<p>Does is offer regular physics? If not, I still recommend you take it online or through some other method (night school, summer school etc). However, if you do not, it should not have a significant impact (unless the program requires it - you should check beforehand). </p>
<p>Given you won’t be a STEM major, no physics is probably okay, though it is preferred. The flaw in your science education seems to be you’ve only taken bio, even if it is two IB courses. You probably want to mix it up and find a way to take either chemistry or physics, even if not at the IB level, unless you had chemistry sophomore year.</p>
<p>YOu’re in IB, which is a different beast, since you need to take subjects in 6 different academic fields. Since you decided to take IB Bio, you can’t take IB Physics, and since it’s rare to take Physics as a sophomore in preIB…
One more worrisome aspect of your application is that you “ran out of math classes” at your high school… and didn’t try to find some that are more challenging at a nearby public college.</p>
<p>I took chem as a sophomore. My school does chem before bio. </p>
<p>Also I ran out of math classes in highschool and the block scheduling of my school prevents me from taking college courses so I took another calc class at highschool to fill a year</p>
<p>Taking IB Bio doesn’t exclude the possibility of taking IB Physics. I took 2 IB science classes. But this is irrelevant since the OP’s school doesn’t have IB physics.</p>
<p>nanotechnology: you can only do that if you intend on going on with the sciences, since you’d use up your 6th “free choice” subject for it, and it wouldn’t make sense.
But overall you’re right, OP’s school doesn’t offer IB Physics, which is why it is “different” from other curricula in that it’ll be considered most rigorous even if OP doesn’t take Physics, as IB is in itself the guarantee of being the most rigorous curriculum out there.</p>
<p>If your school offers more advanced classes than Math HL as well as Honors or AP Physics (1 or 2) you’re good :)</p>