My school has both Calc AB and BC, and AP Physics/Bio/Chem/Comp Sci A, but the math classes are taught completely differently. As I’ve mentioned in a separate comment, BC is incredibly hard to take- 3+ hours studying a night every weekend for just the sophomore class (you need to do accl. math courses every year), so it ends up being 10-12 students by senior year. These are kids who only want to do math, and literally do very few other things because this program is a huge time commitment. We are told to not take it unless we want to study math in college or become a physicist. I did the accelerated class until junior year, at which point we can take calc AB. But as I’ve said above, the teachers do not teach, and it was an unnecessary use of my free time. I can’t take AP Calc AB as a junior by school policy, and so community college was my only option aside from dropping down into a 40 kid class where they ran out of chairs to use so kids sat on the extra desks with clipboards. Science/Comp Sci A is just not my forte and I’ve never done it beyond filling the prerequisites like basic Chem and Bio which are very simple- there’s a huge gap between them and the APs… I thought that taking classes which were aligned with my intended major would make the most sense. According to my counselor, all the APs at my school are considered equally rigorous, and the AP ES teacher is a strict grader and has no tolerance for late work, and my schedule would be “most rigorous” with no free periods and CC classes, which few students take. If my counselor says my schedule is one of the most rigorous ones possible and notes that I sought out CC classes, would that matter for anything? Or should I still do AP Bio or Chem next year?