am I taking too many/enough ap classes?Answered
okay so freshman year i took ap human geo and got a 5. sophmore year i took ap precalc and apush and def got a 4 or 5 on both. i got mostly A/A-/B+s in all 3 of those classes.
this is the last week i can edit my schedule before i start the class junior year, and rn i have AP Calc AB, AP Macro, AP US Gov, AP Physics C:Mech and a AP Bio.
I'm more nervous that the 3 APs I've already taken are 'baby' APs if that makes sense? Like AP Human Geo was obviously WAY easier than AP Physics or something.
ALSO- I have swam very competitively since I was 5, almost made the Olympic trials (.19 seconds off!!), but I tore my ACL last month and won't be swimming most of next year, which took up 4-6 hours a schoolday and 8ish/day weekends
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having 5 APs in one year is a bit of an overload, you already took 3 with high scores. personally, i wouldn’t go past 5 total, or maybe even just stick with the 3 because you have high achievements in other things. but if you definitely wanna take on that many then do like 2 or 3 this year and push the others to senior year. it’d definitely be better to have a few with 4s or 5s and high grades over a lot with low grades because you put too much on yourself in one year. it also relieves stress and frees time for other extracurriculars, college planning (SATs, applications, etc.), events (sports games, senior activities, etc.), or jobs if you have one or are planning to get one.
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