I’ve been trying to find a good balance of classes for a while but I’ve been told on other forums that I shouldn’t choose classes based on how it will look in college admissions. I personally believe that I should because there are certain requirements that need to be met to have a good shot at selective colleges.
That being said, here is what I am looking at taking next year. I’ve put in parentheses which credits I am taking that are required in some fashion before graduation.
AP Calc AB (Math Requirement)
AP Calc BC
AP US History (History Requirement)
AP Euro History (Asked for by Harvard)
AP Lang (English Requirement)
AP Music Theory
French III (Foreign Language Requirement)
Drama (Fine Arts Requirement)
Which basically leaves me to drop AP Music Theory for Honors Physics, giving me one less AP course (and an AP I’d enjoy and be strong in, and that I feel I need to take before senior year for a couple of reasons), and AP Calc BC, for which I was planning on taking the AP test for in order to move to a DE math class senior year that I was hoping to take.
I’m not necessarily looking for a college credit, per se. I’m looking at different college classes that I’m able to take that aren’t normally offered at my school (it wouldn’t necessarily be astronomy; that was just one example) because if it’s something I’m more interested in I might do better in the class.
Thanks for your insight.