<p>NEED SOME ADVICE FOR MY SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR?
How hard would it be to take these classes:
AP Calc BC
AP English
APUSH
AP Physics B
AP Macroeconomics
Spanish 4 (no honors at my school)</p>
<p>I really need some advice on whether I should take 5 APs or just take 4- if that is the case should I drop AP Physics of AP Macro?</p>
<p>God, I really really really hate APs. But since you have no Honors… =/</p>
<p>I say keep Econ and Physics…if you’re taking Calc, Physics B will be easy. And any economics class is always easy.</p>
<p>@josh: Calc BC shouldn’t be too hard if you have a good pre-calculus background (even better if you’ve already had AB, though).
English-do you consider yourself good at English? If so, in what respects? Also, which test are you taking, the language or the literature one? Language is generally said to be easier, but that depends on the person.
APUSH-be prepared for TONS of note-taking and quite a bit of memorization. I’m not in it myself, but I have very close friends who are and they all say it’s a pretty tough class. (It could just be the teacher, though, who has a historic record for making A’s hard to get.)
Physics B-are you a math/science-y person? If so then physics shouldn’t give you too much trouble. Have you had a physics class before?
Macro-people say a lot of different things about this class. Not in it and not planning to be, but anyway, I guess some people just get it and others have to work much harder at it. From what I’ve heard there are TONS of graphs you have to memorize, but then again I’ve also heard that quite a bit of the test can be figured out using common sense. I wouldn’t know, though, so ask people who have taken/are taking it at your school.</p>
<p>How busy are you? Are your EC’s very demanding? If so, I might not try to take 5 AP’s, unless your teachers are really easy…but then that’s not a good scenario for the AP tests…</p>
<p>But anyway, are you more interested in math/physics (or any science…) or economics/business? Have you previously taken classes in those areas and succeeded at a significantly better level than the other area? If so then you already know the answer. But if not then I would talk to the upperclassmen who have taken those classes at your school and ask them about the difficulty of the class, difficulty of the AP test, size of the workload etc.</p>
<p>I’m really good in English (I’ve had like 99 average past two years so far) so I’m definitely taking AP English, and it is Language. </p>
<p>History is all memorization and the teacher is pretty easy (I have her this year too) and there’s no honors offered so I am definitely taking APUSH. </p>
<p>AP Calc BC I’m definitely taking. I have an A in PreCalc Honors now. </p>
<p>AP Physics B- I am really good in science, but it’s not what I plan to do with my life (unless I change my mind). Problem is, there are no honors offered. I’m good in math, so hopefully it won’t be too bad.</p>
<p>AP Macro- I’m interested in economics/business type stuff, so that’s the reason I want to take this. I’m not sure if this class was even offered this year. I know last year I had some senior friends who took it and got B’s and they are (no offense to them) not very bright.</p>
<p>My extracurriculars are pretty demanding, but I’m very good at managing time and getting everything done. I also don’t need a lot of sleep to function, which is good.</p>
<p>@josh: Well, I guess that answers your own question then!! Good luck and have fun :)</p>
<p>Has anyone heard of the Washington Youth Tour? I am applying. Fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Random question but, do any of you have the procrastination bug in you?!</p>
<p>Have you gotten your PSAT scores?</p>
<p>Of course you’ll get HobbitTon!</p>
<p>@HobbitTon I’m sure you’re going to get in and do even more amazing things! Never herd of it, though. :o</p>
<p>@hannah: I’m an IB student. We THRIVE on procrastination. 
And yes, we got our PSAT scores. I managed to weasel the score report out of the counselor before winter break, but if you made an account with CollegeBoard then you should have gotten an email with the access code for your PSAT scores.</p>
<p>@hannah: I have five History projects due by February 1st… (we are allowed to submit anything anytime we want, as long as it is before the semester ends, so I’ve been procrastinating with that).</p>
<p>@Elven that’s a lot more than I swim at the moment! Last year I was doing over 12 hours a week, then I dropped it down to 3 hours for 5 months, and now it’s going up to 7 hours. I’ll probably go up again in a few weeks, but I need to get used to it again! What’s your favourite distance/race? I love 400m fc, and I managed to do a 4.44 last year 
I got to regionals (the whole of the SE) last year, but I’m nowehere near that fit now.</p>
<p>I am so sore. Can barelyuse a pencil. aaaagh</p>
<p>^ How come?</p>
<p>@UKgirl23 We don’t really have must moving between schools for S5 and 6 (sixth form equivalent), so I’ll probably be in the same school.</p>
<p>@j0shk10 I’m no expert on the US curriculum, but based on what I know it probably wouldn’t be /excessively/ hard, depending on what you’re interested in. AP history subjects seem to cover a lot of different events, so I would think about whether you want to take a subject with so much stuff in it. I probably wouldn’t, but you could probably do it. AP English doesn’t look too hard, so I’d say go ahead. Physics B looks fine as well. I don’t think I’m really in a position to say anything about macroeconomics. Spanish 4 is probably worth taking, and I know a lot of people in my school take a language of about that level in addition to other similar level subjects.</p>
<p>Actually, I quite like you’re schedule. It looks like something someone over here might have, so it’s pretty familiar. Have a good time with it I guess?</p>
<p>@Collgate …Unless I’m mistaken, we’re already in sophomore year.</p>
<p>Yeah we are, and your post doesn’t even make sense.</p>
<p>Need ADVICE!</p>
<p>My school doesn’t offer honors or AP classes so I took Calculus 1 as dual enrollment from a regional university, but that is as far a dual credit goes. They offer early college credit where i can take Calculus 2 and Linear Algebra, but you don’t take it is purely college credit, and not high school related at all. So what I’m asking is, due you think colleges will be understand why I’m not taking any math courses junior or senior year at my high school?</p>
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<li>but you don’t take it at high school, it’s…
Sorry using my iPhone.</li>
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<p>@Collgate…da heq?</p>
<p>@fostej15…yeah, they will, since that’s much better than high school classes anyways. Just explain it in the “additional remarks” section or whatever, or have your GC write it in their report.</p>