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<p>Colleges do look at your schedule for senior year and how challenging it is. (Correct me if I’m wrong). </p>
<p>Personally, I cannot say how much weight this has on admissions (although I doubt it would be a major deciding factor), but it’s something to be cognizant of, especially if you’re planning on slacking off senior year by taking all easy classes.</p>
<p>Slacking? No way. I’m just thinking three years ahead since everything’s soooo competitive. After sophomore year ALL my classes will be AP (besides my two major classes). That is, if I don’t go from AP to honors in senior year.</p>
<p>Also, if I did what I’m possibly planning on doing, I’d still have 4 English credits.
English 1 Honors - freshman
English 2 Honors - summer
AP Language/Composition - sophomore
AP Literature/Composition - junior</p>
<p>Or am I required by some law to take an English class EACH year?</p>
<p>@mckyle9423, I’m not trying to impress anyone, that’s stupid. I’m just trying to get APs in. At my school you can go from English II Honors to AP Language/Composition, too.</p>
<p>Next Year I am going to be a sophomore.</p>
<p>Classes</p>
<p>Physics Honors
Chemistry Honors
Pre-Calc Honors
English II Honors
Spanish III Honors
World History Honors
(Elective) Honors</p>
<p>Self - Studies</p>
<p>AP Human Geography
AP Environmental Science
AP Macro/micro economics
Latin</p>
<p>Whether you’re required by law depends on your state. In South Carolina, you have to take an English and a Math every year. Either way, good luck getting into a college worth taking all of those APs for without 4 years of English.</p>
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<p>Some states do require that.</p>
<p>■■■■ we already told you it’s required by law in the US to do english every year so if you do more advanced classes early on you and finish them you will have to do the easier ones later on which is bad on college applications</p>
<p>and ONCE AGAIN
5 million AP classes =/= college of your dreams</p>
<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF, “■■■■ we already told you it’s required by law in the US to do English every year.”</p>
<p>Yeah, you said that. I have been hearing slightly different. Trust but verify.</p>
<p>^Hearing from whom? This is a forum with typed prose.</p>
<p>It’s a national law now to require 4 years of english? o.o I thought it was just NJ and some other states o.o</p>
<p>Sorry, but why WOULDN’T English be required all 4 years? It’s our main national language…</p>
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<p>Cool, so is a “ton” approximately ten? Because that’s how many people got AP scholar as sophomores last year.</p>
<p>Edit: I meant to say AP NATIONAL scholar</p>
<p>^what are you talking about.
there were 772 sophomores who got an ap scholar award of some kind in california alone. over a thousand in the nation.</p>
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Sorry, I meant AP National Scholar…</p>
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<p>What kind of insane world are you living in? </p>
<p>Most people take one or two APs in 10th grade.</p>
<p>Our school offers 25 AP classes, in which you can only take one in 10th grade under normal circumstances.</p>
<p>yeah. 5 & 6 APs are usually in junior & senior year…7 is also already too much btw</p>
<p>oh i want to inform you that the valedictorians at my old school last year, Whitney High the NUMBER ONE SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA & NUMBER THREE IN THE U.S. based on AP SCORES, only did 8 AP classes throughout their ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. They got into MIT, Stanford, Yale, Cornell etc. Btw its the AP exam score that most colleges genuinely care about. They could care less if you got a 150% in the class or even doing it in the first place but get a 3 on the AP exam. The main thing you should be focusing on is **SATs<a href=“or%20ACT”>/b</a>. You can do 15 AP classes or exams and still get into a lowtier college. Why? Because is AP is virtually worthless now. Everyone does it. & the exams are heavily curved. It’s also your GPA, extracurriculars, depth of one or two interests, SAT, etc. Rush all you want with these APs but you’re just getting nowhere.</p>
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Technically, the average highschooler takes 0.2 APs in highschool.</p>
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Well the thing is, if you’re smart enough to get 5’s on 15 AP tests you are definitely getting a 2400/36 on the SAT/ACT. I agree GPA and EC’s are important though.</p>
<p>^ lol yeah fshofsho</p>
<p>sigh simple things please simple people. the school i go to now has people full of academic/college-ignorant people. they think, like the OP, that AP’s and GPAs are solely the determining factors of college admission. they don’t even care about SAT I/II or ACT. <em>sigh</em> last year in the graduating class of my current school, the valedictorian apparently was praised and still is praised as a “god” or “genius” or “beast” or something for doing 13 AP classes and 2 extra exams not offered at the school. everyone thins she is so goddamn smart and a genius just for the AMOUNT she did. what they have all failed to see is the SCORE and the QUALITY she achieved. she got 3’s on most of the AP exams from what i’ve heard. she goes to American University now LOLOLOL. lol yeah beast my asssssss. she also had those mundane extracurriculars and not even 3 years of sports (she quit after 2 years of xc) and she got only a 1800 something on the SAT.
■■■■■ i scored higher than her… she didn’t get national merit either…that says a lot</p>
<p>APs = overrated</p>
<p>/endrant</p>
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Though I don’t like this phrase that much,
EPIC. FAIL.</p>
<p>Truffliepuff, go ahead and make whatever assumption about me thinking AP classes are the only important and determining factor for colleges. I’m not a dumbass. I know what colleges look for.</p>
<p>And 7 AP classes is pretty common in my school, especially with juniors and seniors.</p>
<p>And Truffliepuff, with the whole Whitney High thing. Yeah, they have high AP scores because their students take only 8 AP classes in four years! That school sure as hell isn’t ranked that high in school terms overall. My school is also nationally ranked, except it’s common for students to take anywhere from 5 AP classes to 20. Seniors get accepted into many ivy leagues, too, other astute colleges, arts colleges–like Juliard–, and even colleges in other countries.</p>