I see. I had thought that if AP Micro and DE Govt were on my schedule then it would be looked as the same as most seniors who take AP Gov/AP Macro
College applications will specifically ask about your senior year class schedule.
If AP Micro is from junior year and DE Gov was over the summer, you wonāt have social science on your senior class schedule.
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Sucks our school only has a 6-period block. I guess I should then replace A&P with AP Govt/AP Macro. I will keep everything else the same, I guess A&P will have to wait for college. Thanks everyone.
That does limit the amount of schedule space for electives like A&P once you fill your schedule with the expected college-prep core courses and high school graduation requirements.
High school level A&P may not be all that useful compared to courses on the subject taken in college (after college general biology and often general and organic chemistry). The same can be said for AP statistics for those who will take calculus-based statistics in college. In high school, these might best be thought of as electives that can help the student determine interest in the subjects, but should not displace college-prep core courses or high school graduation requirements.
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It is entirely normal for a high school student to not know what they want to do with their careers. For those high school students who do know, it is very, very common for them to change their mind. One daughter I think when she was a junior in high school came to me and was concerned that she did not know what she wanted to do for a career, whereas her friends did know. I pointed out that yes her friends did know what they want to do, but in six months they will have a different plan, and in the end they will probably settle on yet another different career path. This is normal.
There is quite a few careers that are possible with a degree in mathematics. It turns out that a lot of what we take for granted in our day to day life only works because someone did the math. As a math major, the other students who I knew who graduated with a bachelorās degree in math ended up in a wide range of careers. One or two went to law school. One got a masterās degree in acoustics. It turns out that there is a lot of math required to design a concert hall where every seat has good sound quality. One got a first job working at a cyclotron helping to do the math required to keep the beam of high speed protons focused and aligned. Some got various software engineering jobs, in most cases jobs where there was a lot of math needed to solve problems and the amount of data was large enough that computers were needed to do the computations (but a human needed to make sure that the math was right). A few went into artificial intelligence or machine learning (although this tends to be more recent, mostly). Some math majors go into accounting or quantitative stock investing. There are lots and lots of possibilities, and as a high school student you are not going to be aware of most of them. At the point that I graduated university with a bachelorās degree in mathematics I still had no idea what I would end up doing, and then I ended up in a field that did not even exist when I graduated university (but that needed math).
Similarly there are lots of options in the various sciences. You can get to university, take some science classes in several different areas, and figure out what you like best, take a bit more of that, and see how it goes. Generally we each figure this out over time.
In terms of medical school, this is a path that requires a huge commitment of time and effort and hard work and college funds over an extended period of time. The people I know who succeeded on this path were very strongly driven to do it. If you are not strongly drawn to it there are lots and lots of other options.
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You are 17. Itās nice to have an idea to work toward but your life will likely be very different in 3 and 10 years from what you expect it to be.
Explore. No need to rush. If exploring includes medical shadowing, great. Deciding on the next 50 years today ā¦nope.
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Thank you for the detailed response:) Though with the unknown it can make it difficult to plan out things accordingly when you have almost no idea on how to even start. I just hope things will work out eventually.