Is my high school schedule good enough?

Question

My parents say that I am not challenging myself enough and that I should take more AP classes... What do you guys think? Any positive feedback would be immeasurably appreciated.

Junior Schedule:

Spanish 3 Honors

Trigonometry

Honors Chemistry

English 3AP

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Pre-calculus Honors

Biology AP

Digital Photography

US History

Senior Schedule:

AP Calculus AB

Physics

Chemistry AP

Keyboarding

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Statistics AP

English 4AP

Anatomy and Physiology AP

American Gov't/Econ Honors

They would like me to take AP Calculus BC, US History AP, Amer. Gov't./Econ AP, AP Physics B, and to switch Keyboarding to Adv. Biology and Chemistry. But the thing about Adv. Bio/Chem is that it is taught at another school, so I would have to leave everyday after lessons! Also, I currently type between 44-67 wpm, so I have good days and bad days. I want to improve that. My sophomore GPA was a 4.25. but I was told by them that it wasn't good enough to be accepted by UC Berkeley, which is one of the schools that my mother graduated from. I'm starting to think that universities won't give me the time of day.

Answer 1

i think that your sched is busy enough. and yes your parents may want you tot take more ap classes but look i the future as to how much more work that will be and tougher it will be for you. what you have now seems to me like its challenging enough for you and u don't want to over do it. if you want you could always try a couple more ap classes and see how it works for you, what's the worse that can happen u can just take a honors class instead. remember its better to succeed in a honors class then to struggle and be boggled down in an ap class.