Senior Class Schedule Options (Need Opinions, Please)

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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Hello!

A little background information: I’m currently in my junior year of high school, and I have completely changed careers and majors. My original intent when going into high school was to major in biochemistry and eventually work my up to become a forensic pathologist. But after taking three science courses and struggling a bit with math, along with realizing I don’t want to be in school for 14-18 years, I decided to switch career paths and become a criminal profiler or criminologist. I have decided to double major in psychology and criminal justice when I get to college.

The problem is that I don’t know what classes I should take next year.

As of right now, I have these classes planned out for next year:
-AP Literature
-AP Statistics
-AP Chemistry
-AP Psychology
-AP US History
-Programming
-Sociology and Human Relations

The problem is that I also want to take criminal justice courses which are three hours everyday at the community college in my area. If I decide to do the criminal justice courses, I would have to get rid of three classes (AP Psychology, AP US History, and sociology/human relations). However, the criminal justice courses are needed for my criminal justice major (which include: Intro to Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement I and II, and Criminal Law and Society).
However, if I decide not to go with the criminal justice courses, I could get more knowledge in both majors since I’m majoring in psychology (AP Psych) and criminal justice (AP US History and sociology).

If I get accepted for the criminal justice courses, they are free of charge and I could get 12 credit hours completed once I finish my senior year.

My main concern is if taking the criminal justice course will be worth it in the end?

Note: I’m not really concerned with the workload since I’m currently taking four AP classes and maintain above an A in all of them.

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Those four AP credits could equate to 12 college credits or even more, depending on the school. Remember you also have to make sure you have enough credits to satisfy your high school requirements. If the courses at your community college do satisfy, then it’s your decision if you want to stay in your high school class room or not for your senior year. Neither would set you backwards, because you would take crim justice courses at your university.

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if you don’t mind me asking, what classes do you currently take?

4

@neophite I am currently taking AP Physics, AP Government and Politics, Pre-AP Algebra II, Pre-AP Chemistry, AP Art History, Debate II, and AP Language.

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Don’t you need to USH credit to graduate HS? Regardless, I would just take the courses you want at your HS and save taking any criminal justice classes until you are actually in college. However, I don’t think that either scenario will make a big difference in the long run.

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As far as I know, AP Psych and Stat are lite courses, but APUSH, Litt, and Chem are quite heavy. Seeing that you are taking Physics (harder than chem) and AP Art History (memorizing intensive) this is a good schedule. Think anout trying to get Precalc in the summer to take AP Calc instead of Stat, as Calc is more important for basically anything.