<p>Hi everyone (plz move thread if wrong section)</p>
<p>Im a Junior and making my schedule for Senior Year</p>
<p>Im considering taking a class Senior Year that is hard and has a moderate possibility that I will get a B in the class, but it is a G/T AP class (Spanish 5 AP)and GT obviously looks better than a regular. The other option is to take another class called Advanced Special Topics, which is basically Spanish 5 Reg., and Im pretty sure I will get an A in that.
I am taking Spanish 4 REGULAR now and it is highly recommended to take Spanish 4 Honors before taking Sp. 5 AP.</p>
<p>Help!</p>
<p>It's anybody's guess. Do you get added GPA weight for the harder class? </p>
<p>In Texas, the top 10% of the class is automatically admitted to the state schools , even the highly desirable University of Texas. You are in whether you made the top 10% by taking all AP classes, or by getting 100s in the easiest classes in the school. Doesn't matter to them.</p>
<p>My son's HS gives extra weight to AP classes...he's taken a lot and has gotten mostly Bs in them. Here is what we found out about the use of weighted averages:
School A: only considers the weighted average
School B: only considers the unweighted average
School C: considers the weighted average for admission and the unweighted for merit aid.
These are all comparable schools within a 5 hour radius of each other.</p>
<p>Two schools that admitted Son commented positively that they were impressed that he had challenged himself with a rigourous courseload.</p>
<p>So....my suggestion is to take the class you want to take and that you will enjoy the most.</p>
<p>Senior year grades do not count as much as you think they do, so either grade would suffice as a senior course. However, often difficulty of senior year courses is looked at above the grade you actually achieve.
When schools look at your mid-year report senior year, it is to see if you are slacking. Colleges cannot assume because you are getting a B halfway through the year, that is the grade you will receive.</p>
<p>how low does your GPA have to drop for colleges to cancel an already accepted admission?</p>