AP Bio, AP Physics C and AP Calc BC at the same time??? Please help with schedule
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DS did AP Bio, AP Calc BC, and 6 more APs by 11th grade. Scored 5s in all. Did all the AP Physics in 12th grade, got 4s (senioritis). Did also 2 more APs in 12th.
So 12 APs taken in this order in HS - 1, 3, 4, 4. Did the APs in 5 core subject areas by 11th grade. |
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| Has your daughter approached teachers or counselors? They would know your daughter's aptitude and whether or not the schedule would be doable. Better than an anonymous chat board advice! Best of luck. đź‘Ť |
Anonymous
Actually I'd save AP Physics for senior year---that way you have the calculus background in place for the course. |
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+1 |
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| I would make sure she is taking classes in all five core areas every year. |
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I think she's speaking relatively. There are certainly far more girls taking AP Bio than AP Physics C. OP, let's say she takes all three and does fine. What would her options for senior year be? Let's say she take honors bio instead. What would her senior year options be then? If she wants to b a physics major, then it would be good to have some exposure to the Fnet=ma exam. If you're right about her performance, she could do well with some study, and it would be good not just for college admissions, but also her physics career. (She can of course take in 12th grade as well) https://knzhou.github.io/writing/Advice.pdf |
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| Also, Calculus is a corequisite for physics C, not a prerequisite. All she really needs is the very basics of differentiation and integration (like, what the power rule is, derivative tells you the slope of a function, integral tells you the cumulative area, they're inverses, the derivative of displacement is velocity, the derivative of velocity is acceleration, so on a speed-time graph acceleration is slope and displacement is area) which can be learned in a week over the summer, especially since most of the latter are covered in non-calculus physics |
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| Note that the above comment of mine assumes Physics C is just Physics C: Mechanics as it is in most schools and not both Mech and E&M in one year as is the case in some schools. In that case, I would leave C until after calculus unless she's willing to self-study calculus over the summer |
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| My kid took AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, and AP Stat during his junior year. He took AP Bio, AP Chem, and multivariable calc his senior year. He had no issues. |
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| NP. For those who have kids like this, curious what colleges they applied to and went to… |
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If she were, I wouldn't have had a problem with it, but she said, " the most rare commodity," which is superlative, not relative. So, that triggered a "Mm. I don't know about that." from me. I |
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| I agree with waiting to take Physics C till senior year. Many colleges will require you to repeat calculus based physics if you are a physics major. VA tech does, for example. And also, do check to see if Physics C is both electricity & magnetism and mechanical. Some schools offer it only in a double block, ours is one block. My DS took AP BC Calc and AP Physics 1 as a junior, 5s on both. And this year is taking Physics C (both E/M and Mechanical). It was a lot of homework, especially in the beginning. If he would have had them all at the same time, he would have struggled to keep up with the workload. Good luck! 🍀 |
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DS in a NOVA private did AP Physics C, Multi and AP stats as a senior. He said Physics C is much easier after getting BC out of the way. He was a math and physics kid so he never got below a 95 on any tests. However, he was not a bio kid although he aced the honors bio. He didn’t want to take AP bio due to the memorization required.
For you student, is it possible for her to do AP bio, AP Chem and BC cal in junior year? I would suggest waiting to take Physic C as a senior with post AP math. |
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If she’s at ncs, I don’t understand how she will take two sciences and a math and still take the required foreign language. She should be able to skip a foreign language senior year, but not junior year, no?
The thing about ncs is, there are t any easy English and history classes. So when you take three hard science and math classes, you are also taking hard history, English, government, etc. Two ap sciences and one ap math only leaves room for two academic classes. English is required. That’s one class. Is t history required junior year? And foreign language? How is she going to do this? |
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Typo There aren’t any easy |