Which senior course schedule would duke find more appealing?

SBR
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:16:54 +0000

I think online AP courses are OK as long as you took the AP test. Having a standardized test that everyone takes regardless of how they learned the material gives the adcoms an objective way of evaluating how you did and whether that demonstrated your academic ability and potential. Otherwise, if you don’t take the AP test, then it would be hard for the course to be very meaningful from the admissions point of view I would think.

As for Physics B, I’ve never taken it but I do hear that it’s easy. Physics C, however, is no joke. A class is highly recommended along with a competent teacher (or at least one with practice tests going back several decades and mean enough to make you do a few every week) but it doesn’t have to be AP. Any old college intro physics course will do as long as you do it with calculus.