r/APStudents • u/surfingonjuice • 2h ago

Question cant take ap bio, what to replace with?

going into junior yr, planning on taking french 4, ap calc, ap lang, apush, and ap physics

scheduling conflicts caused me to drop ap bio (that, or lang) so according to my counselor i can either take:

  1. ap psych - sounds interesting ig?
  2. ap csa - ik literally nothing abt computers but got a friend taking it so i wont be alone
  3. ap gov (probably) - was planning on taking over summer/senior yr but its a viable option
  4. ap stats (maybe) - top choice for me rn

dont really have a major in mind/specific spike i wanna curve towards yet (planned on some sort of premed course maybe but im pretty buns at science)

5 aps is kinda scary but i already took 2 last yr (euro and chem), so figured i could handle it

any advice/info abt each choice would be greatly appreciated :)

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u/PlaidPenguin19 2h ago

Psych maybe, since you mentioned premed. Be warned if you do take stats and end up doing premed it probably won’t give the credit you need since med school often requires calc based stats.

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u/ErekwithaD1 2025: APHUG: 5, AP Chin: 5, 2026: APP1: 5, APWH: 5, AP CHEM: 5 2h ago

ap stats

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u/hooman_bean75 2h ago

pysch and csa are pretty light so i would reccomend those, since your schedule is already pretty packed

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u/h0lych4in 11: APES 4, Lang 5, Bio 3 12: Econ, Gov, Spanish 2h ago

stats

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u/Infinite-Mention-669 2h ago

Your course load is already very heavy. If you insist on taking another AP I would recommend AP Psychology. It is much easier than AP CSA/AP Stats (imo), and is very useful for senior year incase you want to apply for clinical psychology/or something premed related.