<p>Because my high school doesn’t offer any AP classes as a 0 period (extra period, most people take 1-6 periods typically), I have to drop a class and only have 6 classes b/c none of my other classes have a 0 period.</p>
<p>I’m taking
AP US History
AP Env. Science
AP Comp./Lang
AP Stat
Latin IIl
Leadership</p>
<p>I’m going into my junior year and I’ve taken leadership and choir II all years until now, will it look bad to colleges if I drop choir? Like I’m uncommitted? </p>
<p>If I don’t drop choir, I have to drop an AP class. I can’t drop Leadership because I have an officer position.</p>
<p>Please advise!!! I could also take another class during 0 period, but the only thing that would be offered in that time would be a teacher’s assistant (t.a.) position. Should I take it? Or should I just go to the library and study during 0 period???</p>
<p>Drop Choir. Almost everyone at my school drops their music once they hit 11th grade so that they can take more AP classes.</p>
<p>Honestly the only thing you will need to worry about if you drop Choir is making sure that you can keep up with the workload of that many AP classes.</p>
<p>First of all, there are many things wrong with that TED Talk - the kid completely forgets about the 3 AP Studio Arts, the AP Art History and the AP Music Theory. and other stuff like that.</p>
<p>Second of all, the kid forgets that as society improves, the students must improve with it. That one MIT professor can think whatever he wants. You know why? Because his thoughts have no effect on the Admissions Officers who will be accepting students with that ONE OTHER AP CLASS.</p>
<p>AP classes are growth. Unless you want to be a singer, Choir will not help you. Unless you want to be an artist, art will not help you.
The video says that the number of 5’s will not make you happy, your ACT/SAT score, your GPA, none of those things will bring you happiness. I disagree. In the long run, all of those factors will bring you to a better future (and how can that not be happy).</p>
<p>Remember, it is all up to you. If you truly value Choir over an AP class, then colleges might be fine with you skipping that AP class. However, if you don’t see yourself as a singer in the future, or you see the AP course being more beneficial, then take the AP course if you can handle it.</p>
<p>@UMTYMP2015 im sorry what you say makes me really sick. The arts have way more value than just helping those who are going into the arts. Colleges prefer the kid who took music all 4 years over the one that took it 1 year and dropped it for another AP.</p>
<p>Regardless of what Admissions Officers say, you should take the classes YOU want to take. It makes sense that this type of I-must-please-colleges-at-all-costs mindset is found among CC-ers, but I think it can be damaging. Let’s be honest. Most of the people on CC will get into good schools and be happy (whether it’s MIT or Ivy League or not). I think you could drop Chorus if you don’t value it as much, but if you really enjoy it and are not getting super excited about each AP class, just think about what matters more. It’s your choice, and we can’t really make it for you.</p>
<p>It makes you well rounded and helps keep you sane when you are drowning in AP work, and gives you social ties!
Take one of the AP classes at a college online program during the year.
For example, here are the FALL classes at OSU for high school students online. The ones you are interested in might be full, but there is a spring session in almost all of these, just check back once in a while to see the schedule! These are like AP classes because you take them with other college students, but are condensed down to 5,8,10, or 11 weeks!</p>
<p>It’s really six of one, half dozen of the other. All things being equal, take what you want to take. Don’t base your decision on what a hypothetical admissions officer is looking for.</p>
<p>thanks guys, i think I’m going to drop choir b/c i really do not like it and I’m performing in music groups outside of school and working with melodies for charities.</p>
<p>also, i need as many ap’s as possible, b/c my freshman year I got mostly b’s and I want to raise my weighted gpa, and show colleges I have matured and my grades have improved immensely</p>
<p>@emma45 if you wish to drop choir because you don’t like it, thats perfectly acceptable. Colleges just don’t like it if you drop it just because of academics. </p>
<p>thx @guineagirl96, also at my high school, there seems to be a stigma of “the more APs you take, the smarter you are” - but then kids who take like 5 ap’s get Cs in all of their classes. I’m going into the APs I’m taking knowing I’m going to do whatever it takes to get A’s (I need to get A’s to get into the colleges I want to go to). I’m not just trying to look like an overachiever or whatnot.</p>
<p>I see what you mean though, I think it’s crazy to drop electives you actually love and enjoy for one AP class. </p>
<p>@Spiral7 mentioned online AP classes during the school year, how exactly do those work?
Do you get hs credit for them? Or you just take the AP test and get college credit?
also, how/where would you include that in a college application?</p>
<p>They are usually 5,8,10, or 11 weeks, One teacher with about 20 high school and college students (its small because its a lot of work in a short amount of time and difficult for a teacher to grade much more)
You get college credits, not high school credit. (Sometimes these courses can let you skip other courses to get to your major faster) (its just taking them earlier, this in theory will save you money for college)</p>
<p>There is no AP testing involved. Ask your guidance counselor where to include it on your application.</p>
<p>@skieurope, I want to get A’s in my classes to improve BOTH my unweighted and weighted gpa. Many kids at my hs simply get Bs and Cs in AP classes, thinking they are the same as getting A’s, so getting A’s in AP classes at my school is extremely uncommon</p>