<p>I'm a junior right now, and I'm making up my schedule for next year. I've made up two possible schedules, but I'm undecided on which one I should go with. Here they are:</p>
<p>-AP Bio, AP English Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Psychology, regular Economics, Gym elective, 2 credit college course (an easy one)</p>
<p>-AP Bio, AP Chemistry, AP English Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Environmental Science, regular Psychology, Economics</p>
<p>Just to let you know, AP Bio, and AP Environmental are pretty easy at my school. My first schedule is obviously easier than the second, and it is the one that I would prefer, but my main goal is to get into UNC OOS next year, and I don't know if the first schedule is rigorous enough. Is the first one fine, or do you think I should go for the second one, or would I just be killing myself with all of those AP's? If some of you OOS'ers from this year could compare these with your senior schedules that would a big help too.</p>
<p>AP Chem, AP Gov, AP English Lit, AP Stats, Varsity Soccer, Cal II at UA, and Genetics.</p>
<p>Go for the harder schedule, and work hard enough to get A’s in it. College admissions people love to respond “Take the AP class and make an A” when asked if its better to get a B in an AP class or an A in a regular class.</p>
<p>True about omaking it an A with packerfan, and what they say (not necessarily how it will turn out but it’s what they officially advise) is the B in AP.</p>
<p>Here were are my schedules this and last year: </p>
<p>JR-- AP Eng Lit, AP US History, Spanish 4H (but I took the AP test, got a 5 so tested out for this year), Biology, H Math Analysis, Theatre Arts, Choir</p>
<p>SR–AP Eng Comp, AP Stats, AP Calc, Physics, Economics, Government</p>
<p>My current school (I used to go to a diff one) doesn’t offer as many honors classes sometimes (like in the sciences, those were regular), but I demonstrated that I was working hard by taking the hardest schedule I really could essentially. But it is just showing that you don’t have to have a perfect schedule to get in. And I had mostly A’s, with a few A-'s, and one or two B+'s [in my AP courses last year], but I still got in, so hopefully that helps dispel some other myths about perfect grades.</p>
<p>keep in mind you also want to enjoy your senior year. your first choice of schedules is still pretty challenging and full of AP’s so you should be fine. It’s not worth killing yourself by taking too tough of a schedule. You want to have time to do the things you enjoy doing, not just spending all your time with your nose in a textbook. But hey, if you can handle schedule number 2 and still have a good time senior year, by all means take option 2.</p>
<p>Jr- AP Env. AP Calc AB / AP US History / AP Eng Language / H Yearbook / AP Environmental Science / H Computers / V Tennis</p>
<p>Sr- AP Human Geography / AP Eng Lit / H Yearbook / AP Macroeconomics /AP Gov’t / AP Comparative Gov’t / AP Art History / H Anatomy and Physiology / V Tennis</p>
<p>While my courses aren’t easy… I was able to maintain A’s and be heavily involved in ECs as well as holding down a job. It’s definitely possible, but I’m not gonna lie, my social life took a turn for the worse starting second semester Jr year. But taking courses like yearbook and tennis and computers made things more manageable.</p>
<p>So… my advice.
You are tripling up on science. Why don’t you drop one and take your fun elective or those college courses? Also, is there a way to take an AP or Honors Economics? At my school econ was easy for most of us. Adding a non-honors economics class will probably hurt your weighted GPA and your overall application. That’s my advice. But it might not be possible for you. Best of luck. I was really excited to get in OOS and there’s not a similar feeling in the world to getting an acceptance letter after waiting for so long.
Go Tar Heels.</p>
<p>i would honestly go with the second. the more APs the better. I took a class over the summer so I could take AP Calc instead of regular and i think that def helped with my acceptance. and remember applying EA means you don’t need to send in grades with your application like applying RD does. my schedule is…
AP Eng Lit
AP Spanish
AP Calc BC
AP Chem
AP Environmental
Honors Physics</p>
<p>don’t overload yourself senior year. it is your last year in high school and it is meant to be fun. Personally, I think 4 Ap’s is fine. That’s what i’m doing now and i was accepted this year. It is a manageable load, but I still feel exceptionally challenged. I could have selected 5, meaning i would have taken AP lit instead of honors english, but I am just simply not that interested in Lit to add that extra, incredibly time consuming class. What colleges want to see is not only that you challenged yourself and that you are intelligent (like the VAST majority of people who apply), but you have something you are REALLY interested in, or at least something that you are exceptionally passionate for. They don’t necessarily want to see you killing yourself with classes just to “look good.” They want a student who is intelligent enough to challenge himself/herself with AP’s and what not, but keeps a level head and doesn’t get distracted from what they truly love doing.</p>
<p>i got in oos from st louis. junior year my aps were bio and us history, this year:
ap chem, ap calc bc, american gov, ap world, ap lang, spanish popular culture</p>
<p>so my opinion, dont kill yourself. i dont see that HUGE of difference between your two schedules, so go for the one you prefer (as long as you have more than 3 APs?)</p>
<p>AP US Gov’t
Trig
AP Eng Lit
AP Spanish Lang
AP Studio Art
AP Bio
H Ind. study (too complicated to explain, but let’s just say this class is really hard)</p>
<p>I would take:
-AP Bio, AP English Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Environmental Science, regular Psychology, Economics, and a college course.</p>
<p>I believe that admissions compares your schedule against others at your high school to determine the difficulty of your schedule. So, my advice is to ask your counselor if he/she were to have to rate your first schedule, would he/she say that it was “most rigorous”?</p>
<p>AP Environmental Science carries very little weight with most Adcoms. They see it as a class for someone trying to avoid the "real’ science classes (despite the fact that you ARE taking real science APs) and also recognize that it is as easy as you say the course is at your school.</p>
<p>Can you take AP US History or AP World History instead of it or AP Psych? Either would also probably satisfy some of the core requirements at UNC and most other schools as well.</p>
<p>What I would suggest is the second course load but substituting one of the History classes for Environmental Science.</p>
<p>Lastly, why seven core classes? With 5 APs especially the ones I suggested, plus either Econ or Psych you would be demonstrating academic rigor and could take some fine arts elective as the seventh class. You will be very busy with AP Bio, Chem and BC Calculus by themselves before adding in the English and History classes.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that your time first semester will be greatly compromised by all the time you will need to work on college apps and essays. Be smart about how you are going to allocate time because the stress from apps alone will be more than you anticipate right now.</p>
<p>Just to clear some things up, the AP economics at my school is insanely tough, and I think it would be a waste of my time since I am not interested in anything like that, and also I wouldn’t be allowed to take any of those AP histories next year.</p>
<p>Another question, would colleges see it as a bad thing if I took honors english instead of AP as a senior, even though I took AP in junior year?</p>
<p>I don’t know - it may be just rumor that AP Econ is very though. Everywhere I’ve heard from say its a comparatively easy AP class. I thought micro and macro were two of the easiest tests.</p>
<p>, AP Psychology, regular Economics, Gym elective, 2 credit college course (an easy one)</p>
<p>, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, regular Psychology, Economics</p>
<p>So AP lang, calc, bio… then four other choices. If it were me, I’d choose ap environmental, ap psych, ap econ, and gym or some elective. that might not be what youre looking for though. I took enviro and econ and am taking lang, calc, bio, and psych now. none are too too hard - bio is definitely the hardest. Ive heard chem is very hard.</p>
<p>It all depends on you. How many EC’s are you doing? Job? wanna spend a lot of social time? do you find classes super time consuming or can you do homework in a reasonable amount of time?</p>
<p>also, specifically for your load:
are you really good at science? my school has a terrible science program, but i’ve heard that generally, social studies are the easiest AP classes while sciences are the hardest. I’ve heard Chem and Physics C are hard stuff. English, econ, gov are cake (in my experience). No idea about compsci. Calc AB isn’t that tough, but again, it’ll probably be super hard if you’re not great at math.</p>
<p>I’ve been talking to my counselor and I think I might have a good schedule, so if you guys could comment on this one, I’d really like to know how this one looks too.</p>
<p>AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, AP English, regular econ, regular psych, teacher’s aide</p>
<p>that seems like a really good schedule HHS310, it balances out really hard classes with some easier ones.</p>
<p>oh and for me it has always been history and english that give me trouble. I cant remember dates for history and i don’t find it interesting but next year is gov/eco so that might be okay, it’s not history really. English isn’t exactly hard for me, it’s just not as easy as other things and it can be really time consuming</p>