<p>I have a small question for all of you in this forum...</p>
<p>My school is fairly small and new (i'm the third graduating class for next year) so it naturally does not have many AP courses although all classes are honors and the school is a "specialized science school" of NYC. We students aren't allowed to take any AP courses in Sophomore year either...oh yeah, and we can't take any college courses either. But this year as a junior, i'm able to take AP courses and college courses. I decided to take two out of three (i'm not good at science so I didn't want to jeapordize my average for an AP Chem or Bio). Most juniors are taking two APs. I'm also taking a college Sociology course and will probably take a College Psychology course next term. It's kind of frustrating how my school doesn't offer some things to younger kids and if they do, there isn't variety. But next year, i'm planning to take AP Literature (which only seniors can take), College English (again, for seniors only), perhaps AP Bio (cross my fingers), and that's all I could do for AP (knocking out AP Chem). </p>
<p>I'm sorry for this long rambly post, but how detrimental will this be to my evaluation of a "challenging course load"? Will my all honors curriculum play a benifit? I hope it doesn't because i'd really like to attend Wellesley.</p>
<p>I didn't take any AP courses my sophomore year. Nor any college level courses besides the APs I took. They also weren't offered. However, one girl from my HS who got in the year before me didn't take as many APs I did anyway.
Nowadays you can't get Wellesley credit for more than four APs (and now only with a 5), so why worry?
I'm not sure how Wellesley will treat your school, so the best advice I can give is to do as well as you can.</p>
<p>"Challenging course loads" are relative to the school's offerings. My high school offered no APs (I went to a high school in the next town over to get AP Lit as a senior) and only offered two college-credit courses for seniors (in composition and calculus). There were no honors courses. This didn't appear to negatively affect my application.</p>
<p>Take what you can and what you enjoy. You're far better off, as a person, if you like what you're doing.</p>
<p>PurpoisePal, I don't go to Millenium. I go to the Queens HS for the Sciences @ York. It's a new Specialized science high school like Stuy and Bronx Science. ringer05, thanks for your advice. I think i'm doing okay now that i'm looking at the courses i'm taking versus the ones my school has. Thanks you all!! Does anyone else have anything to say?</p>
<p>actually i heard colleges look at the challenging courseload from what your shcool offers.. believe it or not collegs somehow know hwo many AP's your shcool ofers and they look at how many you've taken from what you were given.. and how hard your courseload is is determined by the guidance conseolr.. i looked at a friend's college thingy filled out by you know who..</p>
<p>lol. Ian! You nearly made me jump out of my chair when I saw your post. You're so odd..."he who must not be named". I'm so nervous about college, you know!!! My latest grades (French and Math) haven't been so promising. I just hope the admissions people on the Wellesley board won't whine over them.</p>
<p>that scres me over. my hs offers just about every a.p but what sucks is we actually actually have to compete to get into a.p's if that makes a diff. about 230 people applied to a.p euro and only 70-100 got in.</p>