What was your Senior year like?

What do I take senior year?

• Im currently going into my senior year and honestly have no clue what classes are best for me to take. Here are my classes for this year English Honors, AP History, Algebra II, Anatomy Honors, Theology ( have to), and Spanish 3. I'm currently at a 3.2 GPA ( should be higher, one bad math grade dropped it) and Want to raise my GPA as much as possible next year and have an impressive resume for senior year. Thus far, these are my confirmed classes. AP History (2 year course), Theology, and Writers Workshop The rest is a confusion to me. For my English class, I was recommended for AP and for Honors. Junior year was a tough teacher but the senior year is just as tough and requires a ton of reading, which I hate to do. But I'm a fantastic writer. The honors class I know I can get an easy A in. AP...I have no idea and am afraid of that class. As for my math class I have the choice of College Prep Math, which looks terrible on the resume or Trigonometry, which is incredibly difficult for me. I got a 68 in geometry sophomore year, great in algebra. I don't really wanna take either but I'm not comfortable dropping math, even though it's my weakest subject. I want to swap it with Law, but I feel it'll look bad. Lastly, I want to be in AP Psych, but there's going to be one class and a ton of kids are trying to get in. I doubt I'll get in so I have a choice between ANOTHER year in Spanish except it will be an honors class or possibly physics honors, which I'm afraid of and really don't wanna take. Spanish 4 is incredibly difficult too, so I don't know which would look better. Any thought on physics and it's difficulty? I'm an algebra guy, nothing more. Overall thoughts?

• Answer:

  I would take AP english. I have taken the course. If you are a good (and speedy) writer, you will do fine. If you have no desire to do anything science related AT ALL during college, I don't think it would be the end of the world if you dropped math your last year. I have plenty of friends who did that and got into college with no problem. But math definitely boosts your resume. If you can tolerate it, take the trig course. Try to get into AP psych. If you don't, take whichever fits your interests bests- this is what colleges like to see. Again, if you don't plan on doing any kind of science or math... I would go for spanish. However, I believe (i could be wrong) that psych in college does require math courses? Calculus perhaps. So if that is a path you are thinking of taking...keep going with math-based subjects. Physics in high school is mostly algebra.