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epik_fail1 posted...

I am a bit confused. Aside from Calculus(which is college only) and US world history(since I don't like in the US) I was able to take most of those as options when I was 15/16. I wonder if I had to pressure put on me too young

If it isn't clear - the system is very, very location-dependent. Different states have very different standards. There's also often a lot of choice in how you arrange your classes in American high school. Many classes that some students take senior year might also have been available to take junior or sophomore year. And AP classes are quirky because they're effectively college-level material so a student could even be in an AP class for a subject that they had already taken earlier but at highscool-level expectations. AP classes could be available even earlier than senior year but more likely senior year is where more students would be ready to take them.

Generally I'd say you can guess a senior-year student would have a schedule including:

• A foreign language, likely at an intermediate level by this point because it's likely the student had studied the language for at least one or more years earlier (maybe even all 4 years of highschool)
• A math course - but the specific math course is heavily dependent on the students' math ability to this point. Generally Calculus or Statistics at best.
• Very high chance of still taking an English course, which usually encompass both literature and essay-writing

And then the rest I think can kind of be all over the place and probably depends on the student.