Deciding on Senior HS schedule

Razzor7
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:51:31 +0000

Next year I will be a senior and I plan on applying to MIT in the fall. Right now my schedule is looking like AP Calc, European History, English Literature, AP Chem, Introduction to Engineering, and Acting Production (highest level drama class at our school). The Euro history and English lit classes are “AICE” classes (it’s a program run by Cambridge University, and it’s not all that widespread in the US as far as I know. It’s basically very similar to AP) so would this be considered a rigorous senior schedule?

I’ve been thinking about maybe axing Drama to take AP Statistics, but do colleges look favorably upon the arts? I don’t really want to do this because drama is something that I really enjoy. Also, Intro to engineering is somewhat of an academic elective and (as far as I know) isn’t all that rigorous. I planned on taking it to get a taste of engineering, but now I’m not so sure. On the other hand, Embry Riddle accepts the class for credit, so I would think that based on that it must be at least remotely challenging.

Any advice?