Can I drop history?

phaseshift
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 06:26:42 +0000

I’m currently a junior in high school. I moved schools at the beginning of the year, and my old school had a different sequence of history, where I took Gov/Econ and Honors US History my freshman and sophomore years. The problem is that my new school has an integrated English/history class, and juniors are supposed to take US history, so I was originally told that I had to just do US History all over again. This also meant that I had to take World History online to fulfill the credit, as that is a sophomore class at my new school. I took both semesters of World History at once last semester (1st semester junior year).

It appears that they have become more lax on the integrated English/history, and I might be able to just take English now (no US history). I really don’t want to take US History anymore. I’m planning on majoring in STEM, and US History just doesn’t interest me that much, especially when I’m taking it for the second time. It’s taking time away from other classes, and I already have a lot of responsibilities. It’s even lowering my GPA because it’s not a weighted course.

Overall, my main question is: if I drop US History for 2nd semester junior year, will that look bad to colleges? If it does, I don’t suuuuper mind sticking with it, but I would much prefer to drop it.

Thank you!!!