<p>Warning: Long, but please read!! My guidance counselor is insanely unhelpful 
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<p>Please, please please give me your two cents worth of advice! I will give you digital cookies!</p>
<p>Junior year:
APS: bio, english, math, art
Also: (some sort of ss), band</p>
<p>Senior year:
APS: math, art, (some sort of ss)
also: honors physics, honors english, band</p>
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<li><p>Math issue. Should I take AP calc BC then AP stat or vice versa? I plan on taking only one math course each year. </p></li>
<li><p>SS issue. Our HS is changing the graduation requirements so incoming freshman only need three SS credits to graduate: one us history, one world history, and one ss elective. As a rising junior I am required to take two us history, one world history, and one ss elective to graduate. If I had my way I would take AP psych and then AP micro, but instead I have to take Honors Us II as a junior and eliminate one of those AP courses.
-which AP course would be more valuable to me? I will probably go into industrial design/architecture/something art related.
-should I make a fuss and see if I can skip Honors US II? My grades in Honors US I and ap euro are great. </p></li>
<li><p>Elective issue. Our HS changed the reqs for architecture electives, so I need two years of reqs before I can take architecture, none of which I can or would attempt to skip. Since this means I can’t take architecture while in HS, I now have a free elective period. </p></li>
<li><p>Should I make a fuss and go for architecture? </p></li>
<li><p>Should I take some cool electives, like Piano, 2D design, Java/HTML, etc? </p></li>
<li><p>Should I take a year long study hall? </p></li>
<li><p>Should I take another academic class? If so, what class? </p></li>
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<p>If you actually took the time to read all this, thank you thank you thank you! I really am confused.</p>
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<li>Are you currently taking AP Calc AB? If yes, I suggest you take BC junior year, and stats senior year. Otherwise you might forget your AB stuff by senior year. If no, I guess your school is different from mine and letting you skip AB and take BC (my cousin’s school allows this skipping thing, she lives in Nebraska). I still think you should take calculus junior year, and stats senior year. Everything you’ve learned beforehand, like in trig or pre-calc or whatever, will tie into calculus and is a good introduction to calculus. (I have not taken AP Calc, I took Calc I at our local community college over the summer.) Stats is a different kind of math. It’s not even all math! There’s entire chapters about designing experiments and randomization and placebo effects and types of bias (a.k.a. writing, not calculating). However, I love stats, and it is SOOOO useful!</li>
<li>If your guidance counselor is “insanely unhelpful”, I doubt making a fuss would work. You could try. If that doesn’t work… well I haven’t taken AP Psych or AP Micro (since they weren’t offered by my school), but I’m guessing if you’re doing something like architecture, you’ll probably have to deal more with money (because buildings require money to be built) more than psychoanalyzing your construction workers.</li>
<li>From what I’ve heard from some architecture-minded friends of mine, architecture is difficult, so I don’t know if making a fuss, skipping prereqs, and going straight to architecture would be a good idea. I don’t know what class you should take, but since you do have a free slot, could this solve problem #2 about choosing a SS class?
Hope this helps!</li>
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<p>Thank you for the response! </p>
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<li><p>I’m in honors trig, which is our precalc course … The first semester is precalc and the second semester is more introductory stat. It’s really weird. We don’t require AB before BC at our school, so I’ll probably take BC as a junior then. </p></li>
<li><p>She has 400 other kids to deal with, so its not her fault that she doesn’t know me very well. 
LMAO, “psychoanalyzing your construction workers.” </p></li>
<li><p>That makes a lot of sense. Use this to solve problem #2 … wow, how did I not see that? Time to catch up on sleep I guess. </p></li>
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<p>Thank you again for the advice.</p>