I’m a high school junior and a aspiring Cornelian and I’m unable to take honors or ap classes because I can’t handle the work. I tried world history honors but I couldn’t handle it. But I want to major in history if I get into Cornell. So I was wondering if I could get into Cornell even if I didn’t take honors or ap classes
How will you handle Cornell if you can’t handle honors classes?
Then how would you expect the workload at Cornell?
edited: crossposted with @bodangles. 
I don’t know I tried my best in honors world history and I still couldn’t do it my sister did 3 aps last year and she got all a’s I wish I could be like her but sadly I’m not so you don’t understand how hard honor classes are for me.
College classes – at a very selective school, no less – are not going to be easier than honors classes at your high school. If honors classes are so hard, why do you want to go somewhere harder?
No
My daughter’s high school did not offer AP classes (although she took a few AP exams and college courses) and she got accepted. So, technically, one could get accepted without taking AP classes. But if your school offers them and you don’t take them, it’s very unlikely. AND, you will drown in the workload at Cornell if you can’t handle high school AP classes.
Are you for real or trolling?
@Renomamma - I was just about to ask the same question 
Is T R O L L a bad word on CC? It comes out with asterisks.
@Renomamma yup! See: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1690355-new-prohibition-of-the-word-t-r-o-l-l.html#latest
Thanks@hs2015mom! Now I know what the Flag option is for. I didn’t mean to be offensive by using the T word. Wow.
So i cant get into Cornell without honors or ap classes
The entirety of the previous replies has repeated the same answer. And the answer is the same for Columbia, Northwestern and Brown too. They are academic institutions first and foremost and seek students who have shown tremendous academic ability and potential. I’m not saying you have none, but their applicant pools are bursting with them. They are kids who have taken their schools’ most rigorous classes and generally, aced them. You’re not seemingly prospering in a non-AP course track. In the context of extremely competitive colleges, you have zero chance.
If this is the case, your next step is this: Where do you live? You should make an appt. w/your guid counselor and ask him/her for suggestions of target colleges for previous students of similar academics. Your searching out of top-50 schools simply isn’t realistic whatsoever.
Why is it on CC that seemingly 50% of the posters “scored” in the top 1%?
And now we have those ask if a transcript with no rigor can make the Ivy League.
Serenity now
So I have no chance to get into Cornell
You basically have no chance. I have never seen or met anyone who got into a school like Cornell (also according to your other posts, brown and northwestern) and did not take at least 3 honors/AP classes and most of those people had to try even harder at cornell… I’d recommend lower reach schools
@ClarinetDad16 That’s because the ivy league is basically the top 1%. Unless you have some large circumstance, it makes no sense for someone who could not handle his or her high school’s honors and ap classes to handle the work at a top 1% school.
Ok thank you all for being honest with me
Any recommendations for lower reach schools
Any suggestions