Which schedule should I choose?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My school begins scheduling in December, just a month away, and given the proximity of the choice, I've recently been deliberating over what classes will fill my junior year. Out of curiosity, I'd like to know which option CCer's would advise me to take.</p>

<p>Fyi, I'm aiming for colleges like Rice, Georgetown, Princeton (legacy), Tufts, Emory, USC and WUSTL.</p>

<p>So, for next year, I KNOW I'm taking: </p>

<p>AP Lang
AP Gov
Math Analysis (Honors Pre Calc)
Newspaper</p>

<p>The question comes down to science, my language, and the remaining elective.</p>

<p>For science - AP Chem (which is 1.5 credits), AP Enviro, or Adv. Physics</p>

<p>For language - AP Spanish or Spanish V</p>

<p>Elective - Without AP Chem, AP Art History/AP Psych/two history semester electives; with AP Chem, an easy elective course</p>

<p>Right now, I'm leaning towards Adv. Physics, AP Spanish (Spanish V?), and AP Art History - which saves AP Chem for senior year, as opposed to AP Physics, and means that I can take AP Stats in lieu of Calc BC.</p>

<p>What say you? I hear from an intelligent, EC involved junior that over 3 AP's at my school is "hell." Is it worth going through hell just to get into my top colleges - which is far from a guarantee even if I DO take as many AP's as possible? Your opinions are welcome.</p>

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<p>I will tell you I am not a big smarty on college information but I would advice you even if you take AP classes, colleges will NOT accept.You would need all the other stuff like extacirculars and all the SAT scores.</p>

<p>AP Spanish is a really hard AP class even for native speakers. If you want to lose your grade then I would advice this class but I know you wouldn’t want to.</p>

<p>AP Psych is a really easy class and along with AP art history, I think that is a good choice.
But AP Chem, if you are taking AP stats and Calc BC along, wouldn’t that be a hard courseload. All this for senior year.</p>

<p>Why don’t you take AP Chem with AP Psych so you have one easy AP and one hard?</p>

<p>Colleges-dude, I got no idea. All those are really prestigious schools so I would be thinking that they need rigorous schedule.</p>

<p>Just one of my opinion.</p>

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<p>Of course. :slight_smile: I’m involved in a few commitment-heavy EC’s - which I didn’t mention because this is solely about my schedule.</p>

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<p>It is at my school, too, which is why I might take Spanish V. We’ll see…it might not be worth the effort to go AP.</p>

<p>I would just be taking AP Stats and AP Chem, no Calc (thank god). :P</p>

<p>Thanks for your opinion. :)</p>