I'm going to be finalizing my senior schedule in two weeks or so and I was hoping for some opinions.
(BTW my current school works on a block A/B schedule meaning that most people have 3 everyday classes that last a semester and then two every other day classes that are year round. So almost everyone ends up with 5 classes per semester- 2 or 3 year-longs and 3 semester classes).
Here's the schedule I'm thinking of:
First semester:
AP Government (year-long and every other day)
AP Lit (year-long every other day)
AP Euro (online class every day and year-long)
AP Calc AB (semester-long and every day)
Teacher assistant period
Second semester:
AP Gov
AP Lit
AP Euro
Anatomy and Physiology or AP Calc BC
Into to Tech design (required class)
So what do you guys think? I'm pretty okay with how the first semester is going to look, but I'm a bit more worried about the second semester. I move around the country pretty frequently, so it's kind of messed up my prospective schedules and my requirements to graduate. Junior year, I had to take two required courses (Personal Finance and Chem). This year, things are better requirements-wise but I still have to take a graduation pre-rec (Into to Tech).
The main dilemma is with whether to take Anatomy or to take AP Calc BC. With AP Calc AB I'll have 6 years of advanced math classes, but I'll only have 3 years of advanced science classes. I know many colleges would like their students to have 4 years of science so I'm leaning that way right now, but my friends are saying Calc BC looks better so I should just take that instead. I can't take AP Bio or Chem because there's no way it could fit into my schedule and more than 4 AP courses sounds really unwise.
A few months ago I was diagnosed with a chronic pain disease. Thankfully, it's totally manageable,but I do have to be careful that I don't push myself to the point where I might go over the edge. Especially since I'll be pretty busy with college apps, ECs, a possible part time job and picking up some increased family duties near November. Therefore, I don't want to over stretch myself to the point where my grades might suffer because 1st semester senior year is really important because I'm applying RD almost everywhere.
So my main questions:
How does the schedule look, and are there any changes that you guys recommend?
Is my requirements issue going to be a potential problem for adcoms when they see my prospective 2nd semester schedule?
Should I choose Anatomy or AP Calc BC?
With my illness in mind will having a TA period be seen as slacking off?
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