A fork in the road...Sons dilemma..

<p>Hey CC,</p>

<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>Your son’s school will have to send in a report as a standard part of his application. From this, colleges will be able to discern whether or not he has taken the most rigorous courses available to him. Colleges will judge him based on the classes his school DOES offer, and not penalize him for the classes that aren’t offered, AP’s in this case. Again, as long as these are the most rigorous available to him, he is perfectly fine. All of these classes’ AP equivalents seem to be on par with what top colleges are looking for.</p>