<p>Is dropping out of an honors science my junior year very bad because right now i have all 5 ap courses i can take but the science class makes it just to much to handle. Would it have been better if i simply never moved up and had 4 aps, do they accept kids with slightly less of a course load is what i’m trying to ask.
Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Yes, they do, but it’s preferable to have the toughest workload possible based on your school’s offerings. If your guidance counselor would still call your courseload among the hardest in the school, then you’re more than fine. If it puts you in category in which it makes you more “typical,” then that’s probably not a positive development. However, I doubt a single course would make that big of a difference. It’s obviously better to do really well in the classes you do took than to overwhelm yourself and have your grades suffer as a result of it. But Duke just wants it both ways - push yourself as much as possible and do very well. 
Are you not taking science at all? Or you’re simply taking an easier level? If it’s too overwhelming, then don’t do it, no matter how much or little you think it will affect your Duke chances. If you do much worse by overexerting yourself, then that hurts you at a lot more places…</p>
<p>Im not dropping science all together, i just simply want to move down to the avg course because i get b-s and it would allow me to put more time into other courses as well. I think i will still have a very rigourous courseload, i would have 4 aps instead of the core 5 of the main subjects including foreign language but my school allows me to take other aps as electives, for example ap gov or ap pyschology. Do you think i’ll still be fine?</p>
<p>Well, it will probably not look so good if that dropped class gets reflected in your transcript… (either explicitly or implicitly)</p>