Classes I should take? High school student...?

[winfrid12]

So I'm a sophomore in high school and I know its a little early to be thinking about the classes I want to take senior year but I'm just curious about what I should do. Everybody tells me how crazy I would be to take all AP classes, but I don't know what I should drop.

Next year (Junior Year) I'm going to be taking English Honors, AP US history, Spanish 5-6 Honors, AP Physics (Not sure about that yet), & Pre-cal honors.

Senior year I'm planning on taking AP Literature, AP Government, AP Spanish, AP Environmental Science & AP Cal..
I have a 4.2 right now and I want to be a lawyer, go into law or criminal justice. What do you think I should drop? Or any advice at all...?

I really want to take AP Psychology btw, but that means I would have to drop AP Spanish and I feel like AP Spanish credits would help me out sometime in college..?

I'm trying to get a scholarship to a UC or a private school. Like Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD...

Anyways any advice would be nice! Should I go ahead and take all AP classes senior year or am I putting too much on my plate? & If not which ones do you think are not as necessary to go into law as an undergrad.

Thanks(:

[ludano17]

So I'm a sophomore in high school and I know its a little early to be thinking about the classes I want to take senior year but I'm just curious about what I should do. Everybody tells me how crazy I would be to take all AP classes, but I don't know what I should drop.

Next year (Junior Year) I'm going to be taking English Honors, AP US history, Spanish 5-6 Honors, AP Physics (Not sure about that yet), & Pre-cal honors.

Senior year I'm planning on taking AP Literature, AP Government, AP Spanish, AP Environmental Science & AP Cal..
I have a 4.2 right now and I want to be a lawyer, go into law or criminal justice. What do you think I should drop? Or any advice at all...?

I really want to take AP Psychology btw, but that means I would have to drop AP Spanish and I feel like AP Spanish credits would help me out sometime in college..?

I'm trying to get a scholarship to a UC or a private school. Like Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD...

Anyways any advice would be nice! Should I go ahead and take all AP classes senior year or am I putting too much on my plate? & If not which ones do you think are not as necessary to go into law as an undergrad.

Thanks(:

[adamka]

AP classes always look nice on a transcript, but just keep in mind whether or not you think you can actually handle it, because you wouldn't want a decrease in your GPA over an AP class/courseload you can't handle. However, generally senior year grades aren't really looked at and won't affect your admissions as long as you can maintain your GPA and not fail any classes. So, it's a good idea to take several AP classes since admissions officers would like to see that you're not slacking off your senior year. If you want to lighten your courseload for senior year, I'd say that AP Environmental Science could be an AP class to consider dropping since you plan to be a lawyer (so sciences won't be too important). You could then swap it with AP Psychology, which I've heard is one of the easiest AP classes out there. Doing well on the AP Spanish test will help because that may exempt you from any college foreign language requirement. Doing well in your AP Calculus class may also help because it could get you out of any college math requirement too.

[sherborne16]

i dont think you need physcis to become a lawyer or calculus. only if your thinking of going into the medical field you need all of this but not that im aware of. its good that your thinking a head and im proud of you :D!! let me tell you what some friends did in highschool. all year around they stressed about ap physics and ap calculus at the end the didnt pass the test to get dual credit for the univeristy and highschool. here is my story i just did trigonometry. guess what happen?? we had to do a placement test to get into college in the math portion i went above both of my friends.and i am a semester a head of them in math(the accuplacer test going into college or iniveristy) by the way we leave in arizona. i strongy recommend taking your english classes, of course your spanish for your foregien language. ok dont take physics comon you want to be a lawyer you dont need that. a tip that i want to give you is check what prerequesest you need to have for your degree and then decide from there. take ap classes you dont have nothing to loss,but alot to win