Hi everyone!
I schedule my classes for Junior year tomorrow, and I was hoping you guys could give me some insight on what top colleges like to see. I have heard that junior year is the most important for college admissions and I don’t want to mess it up. This has been my sophomore year schedule:
Honors French 5
Honors Spanish 4
Honors Chemistry 1
AP US History
Precalc
Research
English 2 (no honors English offered at my school)
As of now, this is my plan for next year:
AP French
AP English
AP Calc AB
AP Chemistry
AP Macro
AP Micro
Research
AP World History
Do you guys have any suggestions that will make my schedule more attractive? For those of you that have taken the courses that I plan to take next year, would this be too great of a workload? Btw, I currently have a 3.9 unweighted GPA, so im handling my classes pretty well this year.
Thanks in advance!
Idealistically, to make this schedule look EVEN better, I advise you to switch out Research and take another AP course. But realistically as a rising junior, you will have a hard time adjusting to 8 APs, so I think the 7 should be plenty.
Good Luck!
Also I hope AP Macro and AP Micro are combined into one AP Econ class otherwise your workload will be pretty high with 7 AP classes. Do you have any arts? You don’t need PE? Your school is insane.
Penngirlpending, I may have left out that I am taking PE, it’s in the same period as labs for science class. Do you think that not having an art will look bad? I’ve been really worried about it because I dropped out of art class earlier this year to take Spanish. It is was after the “dropping deadline” so it will show up on my transcript. Also, I thought the research class would help my chances. It is a class where I find a mentor and work on my own individual project in their lab. It is a three year course to study a personal area of interest. Is this class not a good idea, especially since it lasts for 3 years? I believe next year it will count as an honors course, if that makes a difference. Thanks so much for your response!
I think the research class would help way more than an additional AP.
@Ianam99 In my school, in order to graduate, we need at least 3 credits in arts or three full years. I’m not sure how it is at your school. You should check your program of studies or your counselor. It doesn’t look bad, but you mentioned dropping an art to take Spanish–does that mean this is your first year of Spanish? It is recommended to have 3 years of foreign language in high school (or more).
The research class is not bad to take. Considering you are already taking AP French, you don’t need to take the Spanish class after all. I think you should take an art because I think most high schools require arts to graduate.