Junior Scheduling

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Hello I have to turn in my Junior year course selection on Thursday and am feeling really conflicted, I was recommended for 5 APs but do not want to kill myself as I am president of the filmmaking club, in marching band and in theatre. I am considering going into a career in science - possibly pediatrics, neurology, biochem or aerospace engineering with a minor in music or theatre.

Here are two of the schedules I was considering:
1:
AP Bio (double period)
AP world history
AP Calc AB
AP English Language
Hon Symph Band
Junior Humanities seminar/ Stage Design

2:
AP Psych
AP English Language
AP Calc AB
Mol bio (or anatomy)
Honors Symph band
Hon (or AP) World History
Junior Humanities Seminar/ Stage Design

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The second one is definitely much easier, but many of the possible majors you listed were in biology, so I’d suggest taking the first one. Is there any way you can take Hon. World History in the first one so you don’t kill yourself? It really depends on the difficulty of your school, though. At my school, it’s murder to take more than three hard APs. At others, people take seven.

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Its usual at my school to take 2-4 APs its one of the top ten schools in the country so pretty rigorous… If i didn’t take AP bio Junior year I would be taking it senior year after Mol Bio or Anatomy junior year. Or I could do both Anatomy and Mol Bio Junior year and not take AP Psych.