<p>Last year, my junior year, I took 5/6 classes:</p>
<p>AP english comp
AP spanish comp
AP ush
honors physics
honors alg 2/trig
health (1 semester)</p>
<p>this year i'm taking:</p>
<p>AP english lit
AP spanish lit
AP gov
AP calc bc
AP chem</p>
<p>i've always thought that colleges would care more about the fact that all my classes are AP/honors than the fact that i'm not taking like 7 or 8 classes. Am i totally mistaken? Should I in fact load up on more classes, albeit non-aps?</p>
<p>You will be compared to your classmates, your counselor will have to check a box as to whether you took the most rigorous schedule available to you. That will take into account both rigor and course load.</p>
<p>You were definitely incorrect in telling the posted on another thread that colleges don’t care about the number of classes. If 6 is what the top kids at his school takes and he’s taking 5, he will not be a good candidate at highly competitive colleges.</p>
<p>you’re right, thanks. if most kids at my school take five or six (six is the max, and it’s always an elective), though, and very few take more than three ap’s in one year, i should be fine right? fine as in “most rigorous”?</p>
<p>Ask your counselor what box he/she will check. If other kids take as many rigorous classes as you do plus an elective, your schedule is not the most rigorous. It’s all in the context of your school. My kids went to schools where every class was AP level. Yet to get the top box checked you had to take one more class than required every term because that was the standard for the schools’ top students.</p>