<p>Hi, I'm a first time poster on this site, so forgive me if I posted this on the wrong forum. I am currently a sophomore in high school and am in the process of course selections for my junior year. I already passed my course selection sheet in, but I can go to my guidance counselor and revise it if need be. So I'm pretty much a smart kid, I take all honors/accelerated/AP courses, mostly As last year, this year As and Bs, and I'm interested in getting into a good premed college. These are the classes that I plan on taking next year:
AP English Language, AP Chemistry, AP US History, Honors Sports Medicine 2, Accelerated Pre-Calculus, Honors Spanish 3, AP Workshop</p>
<p>So what do you think? Would good universities like to see these kind of classes for my junior year? I'd be really happy if I got into an Ivy like Brown, but a non-Ivy prestigious school would be pretty good as well.</p>
<p>BTW my GPA is currently a 3.91, it went down a lot last year from being a 4.115.</p>
<p>Looks rigorous enough. Keep up a high GPA and you’ll be ok with the grades portion of the application process.</p>
<p>What classes did you take this year, how did you do, and why did your GPA go down?</p>
<p>What’s your unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>In terms of apparent rigor, yes this is a good schedule. But if you can’t maintain decent grades in these classes, it’s effectively pointless and perhaps detrimental.</p>
<p>ap workshop? didnt know that existed</p>
<p>SeekingUni: I took AP Bio, Accelerated Geometry, Honors in English, Spanish, Early US History, Chemistry and Sports Medicine. In AP Bio I got an 87, 75 (which he said was the wrong grade and is to be changed into an 80), 80, and my last grade I haven’t gotten yet, but I assume that it is in the A range. My AP Bio teacher got into a bad motorcycle accident before school started, so he barely taught us anything as we have had substitutes come in and out, I don’t think I did very well on the AP Exam, hopefully a 3, but Geometry I got 2 90s and an 83 because of one bad test everyone failed. English my teacher was ridiculous at grading and gave us an overwhelming amount of work, I got 2 84s and an 82. Spanish I did good, 92, 87 and 90. My History teacher isn’t very giving and I got an 89, 79 (due to one bad project, everything else was an A), and 89. Chemistry has probably been my best class grade wise with 95, 90, 93. Sports Medicine I also did well in with a 90, 88, and 90. </p>
<p>The main reason my grades went down was due to my AP Bio teacher assigning me to take notes on about 2-3 chapters a night (around a 100 pages in the book) during football season, resulting in me falling asleep at 1 o’clock in the morning for the majority of October and November. Eventually I started not to care and wouldn’t do all of my hw or study when I got home, so my grades went down. Next year I am taking an AP Workshop, which is pretty basically a study period (I haven’t had a study class in high school), so I can get a good portion of work done in school. </p>
<p>BTW I don’t know my unweighted GPA, but I should find it out along with my updated weighted GPA, fourth quarter grades and class rank at the end of this year.</p>
<p>Does your school have trimesters or something? Is that why you post 3 different grades?</p>
<p>No we have quarters, I’m still in school so I don’t have my fourth quarter grade yet.</p>