Class Schedules and History Fair

anxiousgoldfish
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:40:53 +0000

I´m trying to decide what classes I should take in sophomore year in order to strengthen my transcript. As of right now, as an IB freshman, I´m taking AP World History, Algebra 2 Honors, AP Human Geography, Pre-IB Biology, French 1, Spanish 2, Pre-IB English Honors

Next year, I´m planning on taking AP Physics 1, Pre-cal BC, Spanish 3, APUSH, AP English Lang and Comp, and Chemistry. But I don´t know if I want to take AP Psychology or APES. Which one would look better on a transcript? I don´t know what my major or college is going to be yet, but I just want to be prepared.

Also, I´ve done history fair for several years now and only managed to get to state once, and I´ve noticed that the judges seem slightly biased towards local topics in Pensacola, which is relatively small. I´m not being biased when I say that local topics in a small town usually don´t make it past State History Fair. For example, the first place county winner did her topic on Pensacola Lunch Counter Sit-ins, which, according to many other people I´ve talked to, is interesting but won´t win.

The problem is that I want to keep doing History Fair, but I don´t want to compete if there´s no way that I´ll succeed. I know that no matter what I try to do, I will always be slightly biased in my decisions, so what do you think? Should I do it again or should I just drop it?