Hi, Which senior year schedule seems better in regards to course rigour and in general handling it with college apps and planning to take SAT again. Aiming for good top schools. I am a business/economics major. I have done Spanish for all years of high school and junior year done Spanish 4 honors, but Ap Spanish is offered in my school but the teachers isn’t good and very hard. Also overall Spanish i have never been the greatest at, still got A’s.
Here are the Ap courses and others I have done in the past:
AP Computer Science Principles
AP language and compostion
AP Bio
AP Calc AB
AP Psychology
AP Human Geography
Chem 1A at CC
Business Law at CC
Possible Schedule 1:
AP gov
AP stats
AP Physics C Mechanics and Engineering
Normal Literature
Pe( mandatory )
Financial Accounting- through Community college ( on high school transcript)
AP macroeconomics - through an outside platform (online) (secondary transcript)
Possible schedule 2:
AP gov
AP stats
AP Physics C Mechanics and Engineering
AP Lit
Pe( mandatory )
Financial Accounting- through Community college ( on high school transcript)
Possible Schedule 3:
AP gov
AP stats
AP Physics C Mechanics and Engineering
Normal Lit
Ceramics level 3
Pe
Financial Accounting- through Community college ( on high school transcript)
Possible Schedule 4:
AP gov
AP stats
AP Physics C Mechanics and Engineering
Normal Lit
Pe(mandatory)
Financial Accounting- through Community college ( on high school transcript)
AP Spanish- outside online course ( I do receive secondary transcript)
AP macroeconomics- outside online course ( I do receive secondary transcript)
Possible Schedule 5:
AP gov
AP stats
AP Physics C Mechanics and Engineering
Normal Lit
Pe(mandatory)
Accounting ( given by high school not CC )
AP Spanish- outside online course ( I do receive secondary transcript)
Possible Schedule 6:
AP gov
AP stats
AP Physics C Mechanics and Engineering
Normal Lit
Pe(mandatory)
Accounting ( given by high school not CC )
AP macroeconomics- outside online course ( I do receive secondary transcript)
Honestly, I just want a decently rigorous schedule that will allow me to have time and that my high school transcript specifically shows some amount of drive and not only my secondary transcript.
What’s normal at your school? Both of my kids always had 8 classes every year, so 6 or 7 would seem light. But this may be school dependent.
If the accounting courses are both intro classes, I don’t think being at a local CC would be meaningfully different to be worth the (assumed) extra administration/cost/logistics.
AP Lit is obviously more rigorous than regular, but that doesn’t mean you need to take it. If English is an area of strength, that you enjoy, and can do well, than it’s good to take. (My D will have 12 APs, but Lit is one she’s passing on for Senior year.)
Same for Macro and Spanish. They are obviously the more rigorous, but that doesn’t mean you need to take all of them, especially if you go with Lit. You already have an AP SS/History topic, so passing on Macro might be fine.
Is AP econ not offered at all?
What you need is make SURE (ie., write it out in your brag sheet) your GC indicates this is the most rigorous schedule you could take because, despite your requesting it, your school wasnt able to offer AP Econ and didnt have enough space for all students who wanted to take AP Lit, including you.
The problem is that your senior schedule is a bit light… what else could you take among academic courses or courses useful for an econ major?
(AP Physics C and AP stats establish your quantitative skills)?