Rigorous schedule?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
1

I just started senior year and am wondering if my schedule counts as rigorous enough.

AP Calc AB
AP Bio
English lit&comp
AP Psychology
AP Gov*

*I’m considering dropping this one, and doing an Independent Study instead. Would this still be impressive enough if I did this?

Thanks in advance.

2

I would stick with AP Gov, is English Lit and Comp offered in AP at your school?

3

It’s offered but I was not recommended for it so I can’t take it.

4

Oh, thats okay. Your schedule is very rigorous, and if you get good scores, keep your grades up, and show your passion towards clubs, you will have an array of colleges that you could get accepted into! :slight_smile:

5

Do you think if I dropped AP Gov for an independent study, would my schedule still be rigorous enough for schools like UW Madison engineering with a 30 ACT and 3.74?

6

Absolutely!!! I think you seem like a perfect match!!! :slight_smile:

7

@writer80 no m8y don’t chance ppl

8

@writer80 yeah I’d advise against chancing the OP based on the minimal knowledge you have of them… Probably not a great move.

@sevy1817 If you’re planning on taking the AP gov exam even if you drop the class, you should stay in the class. Colleges will not be impressed by you taking the exam without taking the class, especially since you have a perfect opportunity to take the class. It won’t seem any more impressive to do it self study, in fact I think it would look much better to have the course on your transcript alongside the exam. You’re schedule looks perfectly rigorous and balanced—good luck.

9

In order to provide context foebour schedule :
Does our high school only have five periods per day? If not, what do you do with the other one (s)?
Have you reached level 4 in a foreign language? Taken one year each of biology, chemistry, physics (even if at regular level)?

On order to estimate whether this would be okay for uwi Madison :
what major are you applying for?
Are you instate for Wisconsin?
What are our other choices (reaches, safeties…)?
Have you run the NPC on each college and shown the results to our parents?

I strongly advise against taking an independent study period unless

  1. you take another social science
    AND
  2. the independent study period results in something (long research paper, presentation…)
    AND
  3. the project is a pet project of yours, something you’ve clearly been passionate about, and which will have a clear syllabus, progress markers, etc, which the teacher supervising you will be able to write about.