<p>My advice: Ask her what she likes better. If you’re an extremely conceptual and math oriented person and the workload is reasonable, AP Chem is a good choice.</p>
<p>If your daughter likes biology more, let her stick with that. If she ends up taking both at some point in her HS career, I doubt adcoms will care. </p>
<p>The SAT2 Chem curve is nicer than SAT2 Bio, but TBH, if she knows the material well, she will do well. </p>
<p>Another point is that since she’s already taking AnaPhys now (1 essentially Biology class), she might want to even it out and take AP Chem instead. Alternatively, if the curriculum overlaps, she could take AP Bio because it might help her understand the big picture better. I’m not too familiar with the new bio curriculum, but I’ve found that taking knowledge and applying it to something tangible is often helpful when I’m learning new ideas.</p>
<p>One thing she might want to keep in mind though if she is doing research/taking a research class is that no matter what she works on, AP Bio is not going to be sufficient. To do any sort of real research (and by research I mean actually learning and understanding stuff, not just following orders) you need a graduate level understanding of the subject matter. The gaps in her knowledge can easily be filled by reading reviews/textbooks, so that shouldn’t influence your decision too much.</p>
<p>AP Chem is also known as a more rigorous class and if she manages to do well on that, that would look good, but it’s all dependent on the workload at her school. I know a girl who did a similarly rigorous schedule with AP Bio in junior year and AP Chem in her senior year and she was accepted to the University of Rochester Early Medical Scholars Program, along with UPenn.</p>
<p>That being said, I don’t think it’s extremely important what she picks as long as she chooses something that is manageable for her! Gl!</p>
<p>heyyyyyyyy guys, i know i’m about a year late in joining your thread, but the more the merrier, right? this year is obviously extremely important for all of us in terms of academics and i figured that getting inspiration from a couple of overachieving kids on cc wouldn’t be such a bad idea ;)</p>
<p>this year i’m taking:
marine biology (1/2 year)
investments (1/2 year)
pre calc honors
ap us history
ap biology
ap psychology
pe
english 11 honors
& french 4 honors</p>
<p>I feel like my schedule is relatively weak.
AP Chem
Honors Pre-calc
AP English
Spanish 4
Honors Physics
Honors Government and Politics and Economics (They might be AP but I’m not sure)</p>
<p>I just feel like 2 AP’s my Junior year is weak.</p>
<ol>
<li>Intro Team Sports</li>
<li>AP U.S. History</li>
<li>AP Chemistry</li>
<li>AP American Literature</li>
<li>Math III</li>
<li>Psychology</li>
<li>Latin IV</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m planning to get rid of Team Sports as quickly as possible and try to change Psychology to AP Psychology or something else because you don’t need Psych as a prereq to AP Psych, so it is a waste of time in my eyes.</p>
<p>School already?! I thought my school start date was early (the 16th). Though I’m usually apprehensive about posting my schedule, I guess it’s alright since we’re all starting junior year - </p>
<p>Early Bird Weight Training (to appease our ridiculous gym requirements)
PreCalc H
French III H
AP Gov
AP Micro
AP Lang
AP Psych
AP Biology</p>
<p>You all have great schedules, there’s no need to nitpick over it (weak is definitely the last word I’d use to describe them). Junior year is an integral time for us, so good luck to us all!</p>
<p>Looks like there’s gonna be a lot of competition next year with college admits, etc… </p>
<p>Finally received my schedule:
AP Biology
AP Calc BC
AP US History
AP Lang&Comp
Physics
Spanish 4 Honors
Aerobics (school requires four years of P.E…-.-)
Chamber Orchestra
Research Program</p>
<p>I’m sort of dreading APUSH…can’t wait to learn US History…again. </p>
<p>What do you guys think of taking AP Physics B instead of regular Physics with AP Bio? Would the work be too much?</p>
<p>I believe that will be too much if you change Physics to AP Physics, in my opinion. Luckily for me, I got my AP Comparative Politics and AP U.S. Government from last year as my AP U.S. History teacher this year, so I’m not to worried.</p>
<p>I haven’t actually done as much as I was hoping which really sucks, but I did go to a pre-college program at George Washington University and I did do a lot of volunteering around my community which was fun (and I really wish I would have done some SAT prep, but I guess there is always next summer and weekends).</p>
<p>I coached golf at the beginning of the summer, then went to Israel and next week am doing a glass-blowing intensive. Somewhere in between I have been doing AP summer work and ACT prep. I am jealous of you guys taking a ton of AP’s (sadly not really an option at my school). I am taking
Honors/AP English 3
Honors/AP US History
Honors Pre-Calc
Honors Physics
Hebrew 4/5 (no honors option)
Yearbook
Gym/Health 2 (worst thing ever).
Oh and then I am self studying AP Art History and AP Studio Art</p>
<p>I did a 1-month internship during July at this lab at Harvard. Coolest thing ever! Then I started my summer reading. Just came back from a week-long vacation in Maine. Now I have to get crack-a-lackin with summer reading because school for me starts August 22nd. This year I’m taking
IB HL English
IB HL Math
IB HL Biology
IB SL History
IB HL Spanish
IB SL Latin
IB TOK
Physed
IB Diploma FTW!
I think I might take Calculus I at a community college, though I’m not sure because there was an…issue last semester that was never fully solved out, haha…
I also kind of want to learn a random language just for the heck of it. That’d be fun!</p>
<p>I have been in school since Wednesday. Here’s my schedule for this year:</p>
<p>AP Biology
AP European History
AP English Lang.
AP Psychology
Honors Advanced Math (equivilent of Pre Calc with some AB)
Honors US History - mandatory… blah</p>
<p>I’m pretty excited about Biology and Psychology. My Bio teacher plans on making the class extremely difficult, to the point where he is using the 10-point scale and curving every test. I hate English, so we will see how that goes… </p>
<p>i finished a precollege course at columbia last week, it went better than expected.
other than that i’ve just been neglecting my summer assignments and summer reading like i do every summer.</p>
<p>I finished the Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics program on the 4th. I loved it and would recommend it to everyone wishing to pursue a career in science and math. Being a science geek, I was very fortunate to take the “Topics in Biology” class. We did everything from bacteria transformation to genetics in drosophlia. The after class activities were superb as well, being in Charlotte there was tons to do.</p>
<p>The only thing I didn’t like about it was there was no time to complete my summer reading. Forcing me to read 3 books in 4 days once I got home, for AP English.</p>
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