<p>I am going into 11th grade and next year the classes I am definitely taking are Honors English, Advanced Pre-Calc Honors, Honors 4/5 Latin, and regular American History. I can take 2 more classes allowing me to have one free period, and I am required to take some form of Biology. My options are to take AP Bio along with Spanish 2 Honors, or take regular Biology and AP Chem. Which would look better on colleges? Which route would be easier to take? and what would you recommend?
Pros and cons on the first option are that Spanish 2 Honors is an easy A at my school and I took spanish so I could speak it so I would like to continue. It would also say I am in 2 Accelerated courses. The cons are that I don't know if I am good at Biology, and I heard the teacher isn't bad, but isn't good either.</p>
<p>Pros and cons of the second option are that I really enjoy chemistry, have an A+ average, and would have the teacher I have this year in regular chemistry and she is a great teacher. The cons are that I would like to be able to speak spanish better and will have to stop taking it. Also I will only have one accelerated coarse, and I don't know if that would look worse that having 2. </p>
<p>I feel like either way I will have an equal amount of work, but I would like to know if their would be more in AP chem or AP bio?</p>
<p>I would also like to take yearbook. Does it look significantly better to take classes over yearbook?</p>
<p>since it’s your last year to earn letter grades that make the last impression on the app readers, you have to keep in mind the amount of work that you can handle. i took ap chem in jr year and am ap bio right now. i worked my butt off in ap chem to get an A n then a B. i got a B last sem for ap bio and will prob get a B again this sem. so here’s the thing: ap bio requires some extent of reading and mostly just flat-out memorization whereas ap chem is more of a comprehension class. my suggestion is to go to the library or local book store and just take a quick glance at the ap study guides, and see which one is “doable” for you, one that you are confident in doing well in. spanish IS easy, since you’re not yet expected to be able to communicate in the language yet. however, if offered at your school, i suggest you that you take ap psych and/or ap stats. those classes are quite easy and definitely look great on college apps. you should, however, get your requirements out of the way asap, either by taking it at your school or at a local community college (make sure that the course is transferrable to the college you’re going to apply to) over the summer. colleges such as universities of california, as i recall, require 2 years of foreign language, 3 years preferred. so that’s another thing to consider when chosing your classes.</p>
<p>here’s a list of the classes i took in my jr year, if it helps: spanish 3 honors, us history/geography cp (the equivalent of a regular class), math analysis/calculus a honors, pharmacy clerk (part of the pharmacy program offered at my school), ap chem, and ap english language (this really wasn’t a hard class. cliff notes helped a lot, and just memorizing a few things from there prepares you well enough for a 3 on the ap test)</p>
<p>i have to warn you one other thing about ap chem, though: it’s NOTHING like the regular or honors chemistry. i was in honors chem in 10th grade, and when i came into ap chem, i had no idea what the hell was going on. so just a heads up. :)</p>