Is this manageable?

[asd.987]

HL
Maths
Biology
Chemistry
(Economics) since I have to start with 4, they expect us to drop maths lol

SL
Spanish B
English Lang Lit

or should I stick with this:

HL
Maths
Biology
Economics
(Spanish) since I have to start with 4

SL
Chemistry
English Lang Lit

Suggestions and advice are much appreciated.

[Gaby]

It'd help to know what you want to do in the future. I might advise you to drop Chem, but if you want to apply to medicine, that's not exactly sound advice, is it? I'd say it's not impossible if you do eventually drop one HL. 4 HLs with two sciences and maths would be hard to handle. But yeah, it is possible to do, people have done it before. Might be quite a lot of work, but with enough effort, sure, why not. 

[asd.987]

16 hours ago, Gaby said:

It'd help to know what you want to do in the future. I might advise you to drop Chem, but if you want to apply to medicine, that's not exactly sound advice, is it? I'd say it's not impossible if you do eventually drop one HL. 4 HLs with two sciences and maths would be hard to handle. But yeah, it is possible to do, people have done it before. Might be quite a lot of work, but with enough effort, sure, why not. 

Well, I'm most probably going to end up dropping one of those higher levels anyway, but the difference being Spanish for the second choice (or maths which would be disastrous), or economics for the first choice. I simply don't want to be left with an irrelevant higher level, which would be spanish, so I replaced it with chemistry. I am currently thinking about doing computer science, but that might not work out; so, since I'm taking bio, I was considering taking chem too so I'd be open to medicine. I quite enjoy science related topics so medicine is a great backup. So I feel that If I went with the first group of subjects, I would have two definite paths whereas if I went with the second one, everything is all jumbled up. Besides, I'm not a big fan of economics (at this point) so dropping it wouldn't hurt. However, of course, with both chem hl and maths hl, I am extremely worried about the workload. I mean I know I'm hardworking, but I'm horrendously disorganised and my time management sucks. What do you think? Should I take maths, chem and bio hl and drop econ, or is that a bad choice? thanks

Edited March 26, 2016 by asd.987

[Gaby]

5 hours ago, asd.987 said:

Well, I'm most probably going to end up dropping one of those higher levels anyway, but the difference being Spanish for the second choice (or maths which would be disastrous), or economics for the first choice. I simply don't want to be left with an irrelevant higher level, which would be spanish, so I replaced it with chemistry. I am currently thinking about doing computer science, but that might not work out; so, since I'm taking bio, I was considering taking chem too so I'd be open to medicine. I quite enjoy science related topics so medicine is a great backup. So I feel that If I went with the first group of subjects, I would have two definite paths whereas if I went with the second one, everything is all jumbled up. Besides, I'm not a big fan of economics (at this point) so dropping it wouldn't hurt. However, of course, with both chem hl and maths hl, I am extremely worried about the workload. I mean I know I'm hardworking, but I'm horrendously disorganised and my time management sucks. What do you think? Should I take maths, chem and bio hl and drop econ, or is that a bad choice? thanks

I think, given what you want to do in life, keeping chem+bio+maths at HL is your best option. You might want to work on your time management skills cause they're rather necessary in life in general, not just in academia. Also, the sad truth is, if you can't handle those subjects in the IB, you won't be able to handle them at uni.