I’m going into my Junior year but I thought I would post the other classes I’ve taken so far. I’m looking at NYU, UMich, UC Berkeley, and George Washington University.
Freshman:
Spanish 2
Honors Geometry
AP World History
Principles of Biomedical Sciences
English 9
Honors Biology
10th Grade:
Spanish 3
Honors Algebra 2
APUSH
Human Body Systems
English 10
AP Biology
Summer 2016:
Chemistry Online
Spanish 4 online
Junior:
AP Government (1 sem)
Medical Career Foundations (1sem)
Honors Precalculus
AP Economics
Medical Interventions
AP English Lit
AP Spanish (online)
AP Chemistry
Summer 2017:
Art
Senior:
AP Calculus BC
AP Lang
AP Physics 1
Biomedical Innovations
Health Occupations (2 hour block)
Taking BC while skipping AB is a terrible idea. The idea behind College Board splitting Calculus into two different courses was so that the curriculum wouldn’t be as dense. Both courses use the same textbook, but BC covers the second half of the textbook while AB covers the first half. Unless you’re willing to teach yourself a year’s worth of Calculus over the summer, you’d be shooting yourself in the foot your senior year. If however, you are so firmly dedicated to taking BC your senior year, I would skip taking Honors Precalc, and go straight to AB. Personally, this is what I did, after taking Honors Alg 2 my freshman year, I went straight to AB in 10th grade. All the juniors in my AB class, who had taken Honors Precalc, repeatedly told me that nothing they learned in that class after December was useful in AB. They also said that everything they learned through December was simply a review of Honors Alg 2.
In addition, if I were you, I would replace medical interventions with physics. Here’s why. When I entered AP Physics as a junior this year, there were four other juniors in my class, three of which had previously taken no physics courses. However, all three that hadn’t taken physics dropped out, as AP Physics covered the entire previous year’s worth of physics in the months of September and October alone. The 3 juniors that dropped out couldn’t even begin to comprehend what we were learning in AP. On the other hand, you could always take physics instead of AP Physics your senior year.
I don’t know what @mohchan360 is talking about. Calculus BC covers both CALCULUS 1 AND 2. Calculus AB only cover Calculus 1. Going from honor precalc in junior year to AP Calc BC in senior year is a normal track.
Doing AP Physics I as your first physics class is normal as well. I’m assuming mohchan360 are talking about AP Physics C Mechanics or E&M.
@mohchan360 the way my school does it you either take AB or BC, you can’t get credit for both classes. Some schools make AB a prerequisite for BC but my school makes you pick between the two. And AP Physics 1 is a joke at my school tbh.
Ok, see how it works at my school is that AB is a prereq for BC @bvo112. My other suggestion to you @nyuhopeful44 is talk with your guidance counselor as to what your class dropping policy is without showing up on your school record. It may be useful just in case senioritis sets in.