<p>I’m taking pre-calc now.</p>
<p>@loltired I planned out my entire high school schedule second semester of freshman year. It’s kind of fun planning out your classes.</p>
<p>I’m not sure yet, but I think my school should probably start talking about course selections next week. My desired schedule is:</p>
<p>Band
French 3
IB Math HL Yr. 1
IB Physics SL
IB History of the Americas
IB English HL Yr. 1</p>
<p>My preferred schedule for next year</p>
<p>AP English, APUSH, AP Physics, Multi, Chinese V, Music…and maybe self study another AP. </p>
<p>My goal for the spring is intense, I need to take various olympiads, get a 5 on Bio(anybody take this last year? I heard they changed it) and Euro, and self study AP CompSci(SHouldn’t be too bad) as well as take some SAT II’s…should be fun(not)</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity</p>
<p>If you are good math do whatever you can to take BC…AB is pretty slow…it covers half a semester of BC in total. Just study up some calc over the summer and you should be good to take BC. I think taking both AB and BC is kind of wasting a year if you are good at math. </p>
<p>Plus you get an AB subscore in the BC exam so you would essentially be taking it anyways</p>
<p>Ap chem isn’t bad…I got a 5 but they changed the exam this year(lucky me)</p>
<p>Don’t take Bio…that is all lol</p>
<p>AP Micro and enviro I have heard aren’t bad</p>
<p>Considering I get 5s in AP Bio, Chem, and Cal BC, next year looks to be calculus III, organic chemistry, intro to biochemistry, AP Statistics, human anatomy/physiology, waves/mechanics, and some other stuff.</p>
<p>For Junior Year: </p>
<p>Spanish 3</p>
<p>Pre-Calculus (should I take it? Math was my lowest grade and I don’t like math. Should I take normal?) </p>
<p>AP English Language</p>
<p>Choice of Science APs (Chem or APES-which one?)</p>
<p>AP United States History</p>
<p>^^^^^^^
Oh and AP Economics</p>
<p>Unless the AP chem teachers are good, take APES. I suffered even while managing an A- in AP chem.</p>
<p>Junior year:</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB (going to try to go through my school’s strange way of skipping precalculus)</p>
<p>APUSH</p>
<p>AP Japanese</p>
<p>AP English</p>
<p>AP Physics 1 or Chemistry</p>
<p>Team Badminton</p>
<p>Piano 7-8</p>
<p>This year I really learned to hate honors classes, so I’m just gonna take as much AP’s possible since I’m not allowed to take that many regular classes.</p>
<p>Junior Year:</p>
<p>Pre-Calculus (school doesn’t allowed to take online classes over the summer, and I don’t think that I could self study it) </p>
<p>Physics (H) (They don’t offer AP) </p>
<p>AP English/US History (We’re forced to take them together on a A/B schedule) </p>
<p>Marching Band (H) </p>
<p>AP Statistics </p>
<p>French III (H) </p>
<p>APES</p>
<p>@Cornball - Is pre-calc relatively difficult to previous math classes you’ve taken? I was looking at a practice test and it didn’t seem too bad; I was able to answer most of the questions (but the test may not have been an accurate assessment). Do you think it’s something I could cram in a month or two?</p>
<p>@schakrab - I’ve never taken pre-calc before so I don’t think I’d be able to skip directly to BC, despite having a 100 streak in math since middle school lol…also, I’ve already satisfied all the math classes in my school besides AB, BC, and pre-calc, so I’m planning on taking AB next year and BC senior year if all goes as planned. Otherwise I wouldn’t be taking a math class senior year, and that’s the period I always look forward to haha. :P</p>
<p>Why not bio? I’m definitely more of a physics/math person, but I heard that bio was all memorization so I figured I could just cram my way through, if that’s possible (?).</p>
<p>@Team - AP Stats will be a joke after you take the BC exam.</p>
<p>Ahh right now I’m ultimately trying to decide between AP Bio and Chem.</p>
<p>@Catchinginfinity, don’t take AB. If you can dedicate about 6-8 hours per week studying calculus from August-May, you can self study BC. I highly recommend self studying BC, especially if you’re a math person. BC is probably one of the most fun things I’ve done, and I think having a teacher would severely limit the amount of fun.</p>
<p>Just my $0.02</p>
<p>As for bio being memorization, the 2013 reform changed that. Biology is now about making connections between five “big ideas.” Evolution, genetics, and general problem solving/data interpretation ability are emphasized over rote memorization. Chemistry is undergoing the same changes this year.</p>
<p>Oh and the AP Chem teacher hates me.</p>
<p>I need to change my schedule so I’m taking AP Stats instead of Spanish 4 next semester. I talked to my counselor earlier in the year about it, and she said to have my parents call her, but then she was really busy and my mom called before winter break and she said no changing classes. Poop. :(</p>
<p>Next year, if I end up going to boarding school, I want to take AP CS, AP Physics C, Photography… some kind of math class but it looks so confusing in the course catalog. I’m pretty sure I can take up to 15 different classes since it operates on a trimester schedule, but some classes are multiple trimesters so it’s confusing.</p>
<p>THEY HAVE A WHOLE MATH CLASS DEDICATED TO MATH OLYMPIADS AND SOLVING PROBLEMS and it’s weighted as an AP lo l.</p>
<p>@Team - I really would self-study, but then I wouldn’t have any math classes in my schedule junior and senior year…</p>
<p>Since you’re self-studying both subjects (chem and bio) right now, which do you recommend? It’s likely that I’ll be doing a lot of self-studying anyway because the teachers for both classes are pretty horrendous, so which one is generally easier to learn (or just pro/cons for both)?</p>
<p>@loltired - Wow, I wish my school had that math class. /:</p>
<p>Where does loltired go to school?</p>
<p>It’s a state science & math boarding school.</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity So far the class has been really easy, so you could probably do it. Though, since I’ve seen that curriculums vary widely, maybe you should share your school’s just so were on the same page. For example, we learned conic sections last year, but apparently that’s a pre-calc thing.</p>