Half my junior year has already gone by, and it’s that time
to choose my classes for next year. I thought I had it all figured out such a
long time ago, but last week, during all of the Ap meetings, I started to
rethink my decisions. Before I thought that I wouldn’t take over three because
this year I’m taking three, so I know the relative work load. But now I’m
struggling to decide between classes that I want to take and those that I
should.
I can’t seem to narrow down my Ap list to four, which is the
most I will take now. I have five currently on my list: Chemistry, Physics,
Statistics, Literature, and Government. Taking five isn’t an option because I
still have to apply to colleges, worry about my SAT scores, and try to get as
much financial aid as I can. All of which I know will take up whatever free
time I can manage to squeeze out of my schedule.
For biomedical engineering it is recommended to have
Chemistry, Biology, English, Computer Science, Physics, Calculus, and
Statistics (all of which are Ap of course) done before college. By the end of
this year I will have finished half of these requirements. But the plans I
originally made would unfortunately not meet all of the last four, instead I
would only have Statistics and Physics.
So then I was thinking about taking Stats, Physics, Chem,
and Gov, but then I went to the Ap Lit meeting and almost fell in love with the
class. I thought it sounded like so much fun and right then and there Lit
managed to make it on to my list.
Now my decision is between Gov. and Lit, and the choice is
causing me so much stress. Both seem like fun classes that I would enjoy, but
my main reason for wanting to take Gov is to get college credits (plus of
course there is the part of me that would love to learn about all the inner
workings of the government), which is a main issue for me. My unfortunate and seemingly
unreachable goals for college are currently to try to get out of it in three
years versus four. Gov. would help make that more possible. And colleges only
take off so many credits for an Ap English class. For the credits, Gov. would
seem to be the right choice.
However, I’m not sure I want to risk taking a class that I
may not enjoy just for some college credit. For now I don’t know what is going
to happen, and I’m hoping that the problem hopefully just ends up solving
itself.
I've heard from several people that AP Gov is an excellent class and not unenjoyable at all, unless of course you're COMPLETELY not interested in government/politics. I'm taking AP Gov and I'm not interested in gov just because it sounds like a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about Lit except that it's hard and unenjoyable. I know at least one person who dropped AP Lit because it was not fun at all.
I suggest taking whichever sounds most interesting to you, though, even if it doesn't fulfill your biomedical engineering recommendations. Also, you have to remember that those are recommendations, not requirements.