<p>Obviously they're not everything, but is NOT taking all honors/AP classes a deal-breaker to the most prestigious schools? I have taken mostly honors every year, and now that I am a junior I'm taking AP English as well. The only class I haven't been honors level is math, however, I've taken five different math courses (Alg., Alg. 2, Geo, Pre-Calc, Calc) in high school to date and next year I'll take AP Calc and AP Statistics (among other AP classes in different subjects). But will it be too little too late?</p>
<p>No. Most people CAN’T take all honors courses; most high schools just don’t offer that many. It’s important that you not just take 1 honors class and declare that a rigorous courseload, of course, but that’s clearly not what you’ve done.</p>
<p>Colleges know that kids who go to high schools that offer many, many AP classes can’t take all of them because of scheduling conflicts.</p>
<p>however, if a student has avoided taking a rigorous schedule, that is a negative at top schools.</p>
<p>No its not, what they do like tho is when a student has attempted to challenge him or herself by taking a rigorous workload and by taking full advantage of all the academic opportunities that the student is given (that of course will vary depending on the HS etc). I know to little about the American system to tell you much about the courses you have taken and whether that would be sufficient etc. but I would imagine that you are fine.</p>
<p>lol I wouldn’t go as far as taking ALL ap/honors classes offered. After all, you can’t really expect a student to take 4 ap languages even if you are harvard. But nevertheless, ap/honors level english, math, science, and social science are common among the top school appliers. Then again, as long as your schedule is rigorous compared to those college bound form your high school, you are fine. Dual enrollment at local cc would help too.</p>