I have been visiting a few college campuses, and many of the counselors and admissions people said that they would like to see very rigorous courses on my transcript. If any of you would be so kind, could you look through my course load and see if my classes are rigorous or not. Keep in mind I am not trying to flex or anything, after asking my friends I so far gotten mix responses. I am just trying to get more people’s opinions and see whether my course load will be a plus or minus in my chances for university.
I will also apologize for the very long thread post.
® - regular, (h) - honors, (a) - AP, i - (IB), d - (dual-credit at a community college, weighted as honors in my high school)
8th grade: Algebra 1 (h), Spanish 1 (h)
9th grade: World History (a), PE ®, English 1 (h), Fundamentals of Computer Science ®, Biology 1 (h), Spanish 2 (h), Geometry (h)
Summer: Art history (d)
10th grade: English 2 (h), Biology (a), Algebra 2 (h), Human Geography (a), Chemistry (h), Computer Science (a), Physics 1 (a)
Summer: Algebra (d), Trigonometry (d), Intermediate Spanish (d), Computer Science 1 (d)
After this year, my school implemented a block schedule with 8 classes
11: Theory of Knowledge 0 hour (i), Spanish 4 (i), English 3 (i), Economics (i), Chemistry (i), Statistics (a), Physics 2 (a), History of Americans (i), Math) (i)
12: Theory of Knowledge 0 hour (i), History of Americans (i), English 4 (i), Spanish 5 (i), Math (i), Calculus BC (a), Economics (i), Computer Science Principles (a), Chemistry (i)
Just to let you know, all of my IB classes and my AP classes are weighted the same.