<p>Every time I see information about college admission I see they want us to be challenged. My school makes it hard to take an AP course or honors classes. Only a select amount who the school chooses, no matter how bad they did in the subject. So kids who do very well In a regular course can't take an honors or AP course. My school has only 4 AP classes. And I'm taking APUS, because I had to fight to get in there. They didn't want me in there no matter how well I did in the previous 2 regular history classes. I applied to AP Lit. for senior year and was denied, they let the same people go again for the class. And this time I'm not even gonna argue for it. Anyway how can I challenge myself if I'm being denied that in my school? I basically only took easy classes in their eyes.</p>
<p>Dual Enrollment/Special enrollment at your local community college.</p>
<p>^my school doesn’t have that.</p>
<p>Thats where you become pro-active and select your own classes and try and get your academic counselor to sign off on special enrollment courses. Basically where your school isn’t billed but you are. If you do not have the money for them, then apply for financial aid, I know pretty sure cc’s offer that. Or self study a class, and put it on your transcript(well get your academic counselor) since you wont take the test til admissions are over.</p>
<p>Get your parents to complain.</p>
<p>Take advantage of what your school offers to the fullest extent. I believe your counselor will report on the school portion of the Common App how many APs your school offers and other important course info like that, so colleges will know you did the very best “challenging yourself” with what you had.</p>
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You get your parents involved. They make an appointment with your counselor to have them be told exactly why you can’t take the honors or AP classes. They insist you get placed into them. That fails, they make it clear they’re talking to the Principal next, and the Board of Education after that.</p>
<p>So you are saying that they are using come criteria other than academic achievement to determine who gets into AP classes?</p>
<p>If so, mikemac is right, and if that doesn’t work, a letter from an attorney might scare them. People have sued over way less than this.</p>