What should I do about my schedule?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Hi CC,
I'm a passionate high school student that loves math and science but I have a dilemma in what classes to take next year</p>

<p>Can pick 3 APs at max.</p>

<p>My Choices:
AP Latin
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP World History
Orchestra
Lunch
Required Elective (considered as 1 class)
Dual-Enrollment math (required)
English 12 (required)
Any blank periods = Free
8 total periods including lunch</p>

<p>I was thinking:
1.Free Period
2.AP Chemistry
3. AP Biology
4. Dual-Enrollment math / Free Period
5.Orchestra
6. Lunch
7. Required Elective (1st Semester)
8. AP World History</p>

<p>or</p>

<p>1.Free Period
2.AP Chemistry
3. AP Biology
4. Dual-Enrollment math / Free Period
5. Free (drop orchestra)
6. Lunch
7. Required Elective (1st Semester)
8. AP World History</p>

<p>or
Should I drop AP World History so that I can focus my self studies for State AP Scholar?
I'm taking AP Psychology, AP Human Geography, AP Environmental, AP Chinese , AP English Language, and AP English Literature already. At college I will probably sign up for an easier class in the Sophomore/Junior College level instead of Senior.</p>

<p>I've taken AP Calc BC, AB, Stats, Computer Science A, 2 Physics C, Micro/Macro and APUSH</p>

<p>Please keep in mind that I will also have college applications, SIEMEN/Intell/Biogenius abstracts/Research paper I need to write about along with extracurricular which are:
Presidents of Math, Science, Engineering, Robotics, Doctors, and UNICEF.
I'm very heavily involve in the school's club student organizer group.</p>

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<p>No one here can tell you if the workload you’ve set up for yourself is too much for you to handle. Only you can tell you that. However, it’s a very important thing to figure out. MIT won’t immediately reject you if you don’t succeed at everything you do, but if you don’t learn how to prioritize and how to not spread yourself too thin you might get into trouble later on in life. I pretty much tanked my junior year of high school because I decided it would be fun to take a dozen AP exams in one year. I still got into MIT and Caltech, but it probably kept me out of all the other places I applied to. Here, at MIT, overcommitting myself has again been a problem for me, and I would probably be happier and more successful if I didn’t do everything I want to do (I would <em>definitely</em> have a higher GPA).</p>

<p>If making music is something that makes you happy, you should continue to make music. I didn’t like it very much and now I envy the people in my dorm who play beautiful pieces to relax in the evenings, and you can feel their emotions as they play. Music is something that will stay with you for your whole life, regardless of whether or not you go to MIT.</p>

<p>Achieving State AP scholar is very impressive but will be less important to MIT than the scores you get on the actual AP tests, and of the scores on the AP tests, the science and math ones will be more important than the others. I’m not saying you shouldn’t aim for State AP scholar. State AP scholar is pretty cool. But it’s going to have to be mostly for your own personal satisfaction.</p>