Seeking input on senior year course selection

carbmom
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 04:55:34 +0000

@ucbalumnus She never doubled up on English classes. She took a HS English class in 8th grade (her HS also has 7&8th grades when students can take classes that counts as HS credits. Funny thing is she took honors bio in 8th grade, the teacher was so crazy that it “ruined biology for me” (daughter’s own words). So she ruled out premed at the end of 8th grade!

@jcmom716 she does have room in her schedule for AP stats but she doesn’t think it’d be worth the time given the mediocre teacher. It’d be like taking AP just to look good on the transcript. She plans to major in STEM so Stats is definitely useful, but she’ll likely find the class higher quality in college.

@skieurope thanks so much for mentioning the fact that many students don’t take both both AP Lang & Lit even for the most elite schools. This really is my main concern, that she is not taking the hardest English class in senior year. But since she’ll go for STEM, she has taken the hardest math and science classes, so hopefully it’d be OK.