Which Schedule Is More Appealing on College Applications?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I am currently a sophomore and planning my high school schedule for my junior and senior years. Which is stronger for college applications?</p>

<p>OPTION #1:
Junior - analysis honors, ap chemistry, ap computer science, us history, humanities honors, physics 1a, economics
Senior - bc calculus, ap physics c, ap statistics, ap macroeconomics, sociology, sports literature</p>

<p>OPTION #2:
Junior - analysis honors, ap computer science, ap us history, humanities honors, physics 1a, economics, school magazine
Senior - bc calculus, ap physics c, ap chemistry, sociology, sports literature, school magazine </p>

<p>I do admit that these are very similar schedules, but the slight differences are extremely important to me. Keep in mind that I am also on the varsity soccer team and doing our school magazine 2 years in a row (as shown in option #2) will earn me an editor position. (This is important because our school magazine is very prestigious and award-winning!)</p>

<p>Which option do you think I should take and why? Do you have any other schedule suggestions based off these classes? Any input is appreciated!!! Thanks!</p>

<p>P.S. I am also planning to major in Computer Science, so that is why I would like my schedule to be very strong in the maths and sciences.</p>

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<p>DO NOT TAKE APUSH… Just don’t, it will take up so much time. It’s inflated like the dollar. Especially with Soccer, I would highly suggest not taking it.</p>

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<p>If you can become editor of a very prestigious school magazine at the sacrifice of AP Macroeconomics and AP Statistics, I think you should do so. To my understanding gathered from these boards (my school doesn’t have AP Macroeconomics) and my cousin, who teaches AP Statistics, they’re pretty easy APs to self-study.</p>

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<p>Don’t listen to davidthefat about APUSH, unless you absolutely hate history and/or reading a lot of stuff, then it will be miserable. It’s a great class- loved it! It does tend to have a lot of hw usually (1-2 hours a night; wrote about 8-10 papers for the year plus FRQs and DBQs as assignments, weekly quizzes, tests, etc.), depending on the school, but I liked it.</p>