I am planning my classes for next year. I have always been a humanities person–in math I have always been a year behind other advanced students in my class because of poor scheduling coming into freshman year (I had really bad ADD but resisted diagnosis until coming in–when I registered in middle school [before diagnosis] my counselors saw my Cs in math and decided to put me on the non-honors track). I am taking a level of math over the summer in order to jump ahead, but am thinking of not taking AP Calc AB next year, because I will have too large of a workload; I may instead take Intro to Calc. First, my (initial) planned schedule:
AP Gov
AP Eng Lit
AP Spanish
Intro to Calc.
AP Chemistry
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_________ (open slot–AP Stats?)
Should I do any of the following? The first two are independent of the last two; within each pair, the two letters are mutually exclusive to each other.
1a. Take AP Stats to prove my ability in math and that I am trying hard to raise my knowledge of it.
-OR-
2a. Take Accounting and Advanced Photography.
2a. Take AP Calc AB and drop AP Chem (in which case I’d take regular chemistry … I am taking AP Bio this year so my science educated so this could be sufficient to fulfill the science “requirement” for colleges)
-OR-
2b. Leave the schedule as it is, and take AP Chem, and Intro to Calc.
Keep in mind that a) it is senior year for which I am planning, b) I dedicate at least 20 hrs. a week to LD debate, which makes AP Chem AND AP Calc AB mutually exclusive.
I am looking at UChicago, Stanford, NYU (Stern), UPenn (College), et cetera.