<p>this is the mom of a texas dual enrollment college prep high school junior. As the junior year is narrowing down to an end, his senior 1st semester schedule will be discussed and chosen within the next week or two so I wanted some recommendations because I was scared of something. To start with, my son's high school does not offer any AP courses. Instead, it is meant to be a rigourous program where in junior and senior year, the students take full on course loads at a nearby junior college. So far he has already taken 10 college courses by the end of junior year. ( I do not know the specific college course numbers just the common name)This semester he took College Bio 2, College Calc 1, Freshman College English, College Sociology. As you can see, this is pretty heavy courseload. The dilemma here is deciding on a senior 1st semester course load where colleges still see him taking most hardest course selections possible. He is planning on taking College Statistics, Sophmore College English (heavy duty writing course required of all seniors), College Economics, College World History. Will this be considered a good/equivalent courseload to his schedule now. Do you think colleges will look at this courseload negatively? (He is planning on 3 EActions, 1 EDecision, and the rest Regular Decision). He could replace any of the courses with College Calculas 2 (he does not want to take it, but he can probably handle it) or College Geology?</p>
<p>PLEASE any suggestions/tips is fine!! (if you are not familiar with these college corusees, consider AP equivalencies and then judge them?)</p>
<p>The college courses in statistics, economics, and world history are probably not the most difficult of college courses, but they are more fast paced than typical high school AP versions, which take a whole year to cover what is ordinarily a semester of college course. Unless the geology course has physics and/or chemistry prerequisites, it is probably an introductory course that is not likely to be one of the more difficult college courses.</p>
<p>What majors in college is he considering? Also, if he is considering pre-med and pre-law, he should note that college courses taken during high school will have their grades counted for medical and law school application GPA (they may be good if he is pre-loaded with A grades, but not so good if the grades are significantly lower).</p>
<p>^agree with above, but overall, I feel as though this “problem” is overall insignificant… your son has already proven that he can handle a college courseload, taking ONE easiER class in senior year will not make any difference in the admissions decision…</p>
<p>My post was a specific comment on math as requested by the OP. Nowhere do I state/infer/imply that taking advanced math over stats would in itself affect admissions decisions.</p>
<p>^ED, What the HS GC marks for rigor AND the actual class will both be looked at by adcoms.</p>
<p>As I pointed out, the OP was asking for suggestions, that’s what I gave, I did NOT imply that that one class would change admissions decisions as was intimated by a later member.</p>
<p>I have a more basic question because the information is not given: has he taken all the kinds of courses colleges expect him to have either through the high school courses he took in freshman and sophomore year or the college courses he has taken since then? If not, the thing he should be discussing with a counselor is making sure that he meets the basic course requirements colleges expect him to finish. It would appear the needed courses and levels have been reached in math and English but colleges, particularly higher ranked colleges also usually expect you to have: at least three high school years of social studies (which he might have), at least three lab sciences (listed is only biology and unless that Geology course has a lab it likely won’t qualify even if he takes it, and they usually expect to see chemistry and physics in addition to biology), and three to four years of foreign language (none is listed and he apparently did not take language this semester of his junior year and there does not seem to be any plan to take it next year).</p>