Please rate my junior year schedule

Muufeen
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 02:43:08 +0000

That’s honestly ridiculous. You should be able to drop APUSH if you want to. A counselor should advise you to be competitive, not force you to be competitive. Plus, AP World History is very different from APUSH, so you shouldn’t be required to take APUSH simply because 1. your GPA was high and 2. you took APWH.

I would honestly be outraged, considering that you will be stuck with APUSH for the whole year. If you hate the essays, you will seriously hate APUSH, and dropping it would definitely lower your stress. Can you bring your parents into this? It is your transcript, not your counselor’s, and although the counselor is obviously trying to help you in college admissions, forcing you to take a class isn’t the right way to do this.

Plus, if you already have a high GPA, why would you be forced to take APUSH? Your GPA is fine; you don’t need a GPA boost.

In terms of your schedule, it’s rigorous, even without APUSH. AP Stats is a light AP course, so dropping it for an elective probably won’t do much to lower your stress. Physics 1, Calculus AB, and Language are pretty difficult courses, but I think you could do it, given that they are standard junior classes (although physics is taken by both juniors and seniors).

If you can take AP Biology senior year, I wouldn’t take Power 3. I’m assuming you already took Biology and Chemistry in freshman/sophomore year, so you already have experience in all three sciences.