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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sophomore is choosing his classes for junior year and he wants to take honors physics and AP chem and drop or postpone taking language until senior year. He said this is common for kids trying to major in science in college. I personally think he should take honors physics and keep his language (Spanish) and then take two AP science classes senior year.

Is it normal to take two science classes per grade?

I didn’t major in science. DH did major in science but he just took one science per grade in high school.[/quote]

DS did this. We had the same dilemma. He ended up dropping Spanish, which is hard for him and he didn't like. Instead he's taking Physics and AP Chem. AP Chem is 2 periods so there wasn't room for that plus Spanish.

We ran this by his college counselor who blessed it, but only because with lang classes from MS, he does have 4 years of Spanish already. We'll see how colleges view it. [/quote]

This is exactly what my Sophokore is planning.  He really hates Spanish and I have no belief he will ever be proficient in it, given how little he speaks after taking it for four years.  It seems dumb to make him forego a class that might be beneficial for him so that he can continue to pretend to learn Spanish.

My oldest is a likely science major in at top 10 college and actually only took 3 years of HS science (but seven years pf foreign language!) with only one AP science.  She took stats instead of a science her senior year.   She applied undeclared but had decided she wanted to do something like biochemistry by the time she started college.  Not having four years of science didn’t seem to affect her but she had a lot of rigor in other areas.  I think at the end of the day colleges just want to see kids that are taking hard classes and that seem to have a passion for something.  [/quote]

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