Senior year schedule?

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This is my senior year schedule and I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or had helpful tips about the classes regarding amount of homework, etc.

-AP Literature (I’m taking Lang this year)
-AP Biology
-Precalc
-Honors philosophy (fourth year history course- I chose ap bio over apwh)
-community service
-yearbook
-half a year of forensics/half a year of contemporary issues

Thank you!!

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Where is your foreign language? Have you already completed a foreign language to level 4.
You are going to be taking only 4 core classes as a senior which isn’t good for selective colleges.
If you’re aiming for a STEM major I would suggest that you take precalculus over the summer and take calculus during senior year.

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@IAmNotCreativ‌ not many people have the opportunity to take classes over the summer. Usually having at least precalc is alright for STEM majors unless you’re looking for a really selective college.

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@IAmNotCreativ‌ I’m taking Spanish 4 this year so yes I’ve made it up to level four, but I don’t wish to pursue it. I’m not very good at math so I don’t think taking precalc over the summer and calc during the year would be a good fit and I don’t think there’s an opportunity for that either. I think precalc will be hard enough for me because math is not a strength of mine.

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What colleges are you aiming for?
What’s your current GPA?

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I have a 4.15 weighted gpa/ just above a 3.8 unweighted and I want to go to BC with a few others thrown in there such as UNH, Emmanuel, Syracuse, Providence College, or Quinnipiac

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Wow, that’s a wide variety of colleges.
Are you in-state for UNH?
BC will be a reach without an extra “core” class. Does your school offer another AP you could take?
3 electives may be a bit much for BC, but for the other colleges it’d be fine.
Honors Philosophy is good.
Emmanuel and UNH are safeties, I suppose, but run the Net Price Calculator because they do NOT meet need (meaning that they may admit you, but how to manage to pay is your problem).
I suppose you’ll apply to Fairfield, Villanova, St Michael’s, in addition to Providence? You’d be fine with that GPA and schedule for all of them.

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Thank you, I hadn’t thought about doing the net price calculator, I’ll definitely look into it. I hadn’t thought of Villanova, so maybe I’ll look into that college too. Holy cross is another one on my list as well.