I’m a current sophomore at a private Catholic west Michigan high school. With hopes of attending ivy or any higher ranked school (Johns-Hopkins, UMich…) I’m trying to schedule my classes for junior and senior year with the highest chances of admission to these schools as I can get. For the next two years, I MUST and will take the following classes to fulfil graduation requirements
-AP Physics, AP Bio, Honors Pre-Calc, AP Calc, some form of gov, some form of Econ, Theology III, Theology IV, AP Lang, AP Lit
I’ve already taken or am currently in the following courses
-Honors Bio, AP Chem, Chinese I (8th gr), Chinese II, Honors Chinse III, AP World History (5) AP US History, Theology I, Theology II, Honors Classic Lit, Honors American Lit, web page design, and journalism I
My dilemma is that my school has just last year introduced they will be only one of two schools in the state to start the AP Capstone program, a two year program composed of seminar and research. I really would like to take this class, but then I have to sacrifice taking Honors Chinese 4, journalism, or AP Gov (and opt for the only one semester regular Gov).
I’d really like to take Journalism for the next two years, as I’m in the running for editor in chief for junior and senior year and I’d really like to take AP capstone for two years as I’m really interested and think it would make me a competitive applicant. I plan on dropping Chinese, I dislike the class and teacher, but my counselor is concerned that only 3 language credits isn’t ideal on an ivy application.
Any thoughts on what I should do? I suppose my real options are drop Chinese IV, drop Capstone, or only take regular gov for one semester and AP macroecon for one semester, as opposed to a full year of AP gov, and AP Macro senior year.