Senior year scheduling conflicts.. HELP please

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<p>To start off, I am heading into my senior year and just last semester (of my junior year), and I realized the importance of my high-school career, education, etc. Lucky enough I have a more than enough sufficient gpa and SAT/ACT scores to get into the college i want to attend (IU Bloomington). For the past few years i had NO idea what my future would hold and I never even thought about a career, let alone college. I took honors and AP for the last three years and managed a 3.8 gpa with no studying outside of school and slept in class, didnt care, skipped school, the whole nine yards basically. Recently over the summer i have been shadowing physicians (I was basically forced to by my uncle, but I actually enjoyed it) including a gen. practitioner, ortho surgeons, and a psychiatrist.
Basically long story short: I want to be a physician, specifically a psychiatrist. I am now taking school seriously, and am pushing myself to the fullest extent after realizing the connection between now and my future… (I even purchased a desk, ha) Realizing the rigor of classes i will take in my undergraduate years, i knew that I had to push myself my senior year, because i hadnt at all in previous years. I am aware of the classes I will have to take in college, the application process and difficulty of getting into even one med school, the MCAT- what a good score is, what med schools look for, residency- this was not suddenly thought upon (the psychiatry thing). I am VERY interested in science and psychology, and its comes to me pretty naturally (for what i have taken). Watching what a psychiatrist does inspired me and after a few days of observation I knew that it’s what I want to be in life. Now to the point… I have been rambling</p>

<p>The biggest problem with my education is me being in pre-cal as a senior. Yes I know, despicable, however- realize this does not demonstrate my intelligence, but it demonstrates my lack-of-care when I switched schools and did not correct the mistake on my schedule. So basically i have always been a B+, student until last semester when i earned straight As including classes in AP Eng. Lit, APUSH, Physics and Alg 2 H. IMO, I am capable of rigor, as my at least average intelligence will be accommodated with my undeniable dedication to whatever objective I pursue. So when creating my Senior schedule and reviewing what i would take while taking pre-med courses and a major in Psych, I formulated this schedule. Also please be aware that because of my past mistakes I am behind in mathematics, but I do not struggle in the subject. </p>

<p>AP Physics C
AP chemistry
AP stats
pre-cal H
AP Psychology 1/2
English Composition through a local Community College at my High-school (college credit)
econ/govt</p>

<p>Now the biggest problem is AP physics C, simply due to the fact that I have taken NO calculus and our school doesn’t offer physics B. I wanted to take the physics course of the equivalent to one I will take in pre-med, but will I struggle in it due to mathematical concepts that I have yet to learn? And what about Bio? Would I be ok having no previous knowledge of biology in pre-med, other than that of an honor bio course my freshman year(which is next to nothing)? I know I couldnt handle all 3 AP sciences without having no life- it would kill me. Any advice would be helpful or any similar experiences. </p>

<p>BTW, i know my physics teacher very well and i was in his H class. He is the most kind-hearted teacher I have ever met and isnt overly serious. Hes basically easy to get along with/ learn from… he teachers very well (idk if its because hes asian or what… ha). However he doesnt inflate grades, which is good or bad- so im not worried about teacher difficulty, just the subject. He actually thinks i will do fine in the class but im not so sure because i know calculus is in it. I got a 95% in H without much studying, but AP is another jungle. Then I have Bio to worry about. Help please… I know this website is the most capable of helping me out due to the large amount of students with way more scholastic experiences and knowledge than that I currently have. I am just trying to prepare myself the best I can before I go off to my undergraduate years, and I have failed to do that in previous years- all I have left is my senior year.</p>

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<p>if you think you’ll have a problem because you’re behind in math, you’re right.
if you’re dedicated enough, you could talk to your counselor and take pre-calc online over the summer. a friend of mine had the same issue with the math thing, but it was during the school year and he pushed himself through pre-calc and alg 2 at the same time.
if you had a 95 in physics with a teacher who doesn’t inflate grades then you probably have the conceptual part of physics down so you’ll be fine.
bio is pretty easy, just DO NOT SLEEP in the class, seriously. everything you learn in there and other prior knowledge will help you out. the fact that college board thinks that you can learn all of bio in just a year is absurd because you can’t. there’s some stuff that our class had to leave out because we couldn’t cover everything thoroughly. some of the stuff we didn’t cover managed to be on the ap test. =/ overall bio isn’t all that hard.
i keep repeating this over and over with ap chem, but it’s the truth, that class is death. it just reeks of it. -.- </p>

<p>and with economic and gov: i don’t know if your school/teacher does this but if we take ap econ/gov we don’t have to cover the entire book, we only cover half, but we do it thoroughly. it seems easier, at least to me, and you don’t have to put as much of it into your head. as a plus, it helps boost your unweighted gpa too. just sayin’.</p>