Taking French & Phys/Chem @ Princeton

quiddity
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:00:05 +0000

Hello everyone.
I’m currently in high school, and I’m talking about taking classes at Princeton senior year. My school is pretty close to PU, so they give us the option of applying to take classes there.

I know for a fact that I will be taking AP French junior year, and my school doesn’t offer any French course beyond that. I also will probably skip physics over the summer, and will either take AP Chemistry or the highest level of physics junior year, depending on which one I like better. So, senior year, I wanted to take French and Physics/Chemistry at Princeton. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just take AP Bio or something senior year, and get a second elective or class to fill in my missing spot for French. I love French and Chemistry, though, and I don’t want to miss a year of learning.

And Princeton is my dream school, which is also why I’m interested in doing this.

So, Princetonians:
How is the French program at Princeton? (compare it to your high school’s French…ridiculously easy and pointless, or nice and challenging?)
What about Chemistry or Physics?
Is it considered better to take college courses in high school, or to take AP courses in high school? [I know they kind of sound the same…but you know what I mean.]
Do you think that it’s worth it for me to spend my senior year with 2 classes at Princeton? Or do you think I should just double up on APs and whatnot to fill up the empty spaces senior year? (There are other AP subjects that I would actually be interested in taking, like European History and government; I’m not going to do it just for AP scores.)