<p>In my senior year I plan to apply to Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Stanford, Penn and possibly Yale among other less selective schools. I understand many different factors determine one's admission into any school. However, I am concerned about my secondary school record. I moved schools my freshman year so I was unable to take some of the more challenging electives offered. My school also does not offer as many AP classes as I would like, but I am taking as many as I possibly can and take college prep (CP) classes. Based on the classes I have taken/will take, is this an acceptable record for an Ivy League applicant? Thanks for any advice..</p>
<p>Freshman year:
CP World History
CP Geometry
CP English 1
CP Physical Science
Introduction to art
Health
Physical Education </p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
AP U.S History
CP Algebra 2
CP English 2
CP Biology
French 1
Film and Literature
Physical Education</p>
<p>Junior Year:
CP Chemistry
Anatomy and Physiology
Pre Calculus
Honors English 3
ACT/SAT College Essentials
Modern Literature
French 2
AP Art History</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP U.S Government
Physics
AP Biology
AP Calculus
AP Literature and Composition
French 3
Psychology
Sociology</p>
<p>You should have taken a foreign language class your freshman year, but it’s too late for that now.</p>
<p>The rest of the schedule looks competitive so long as it’s rigorous in comparison to what other students are taking at your high school–if you’re taking more APs than your classmates (or at least as many as those at the top), you’re fine in terms of rigor. It’s all about looking at what you’re taking in comparison to what’s offered and what other students take.</p>
<p>It is relative to you classmates really. If your school offers a lot of honors/AP classes you should be taking them, if they don’t, then Ivy’s understand that.</p>
<p>My school offers 17 weighted classes. I would have completed 10 of them. The 7 of those I am not taking are
AP Statistics
AP French
AP Spanish
AP German
AP Studio Art
AP Chemistry and
AP Physics</p>
<p>I chose AP Cal over statistics and AP Bio over AP chem. Obviously I was unable to take an advanced language due to the inablity to start a year earlier. AP Studio Art would be a miserable failure as well. </p>
<p>My only question is, should I replace CP physics with AP Physics? I am nervous about it as math is not my strong suit, but would it look better on my app? or should I stay with college prep phyics and most likely get a better grade?</p>
<p>Why not go for AP Physics? At least from what I’ve heard around in my school, it’s actually not that much harder than regular physics.</p>
<p>Looks like a rigorous schedule to me, and that’s definitely something colleges want to see. I wish I could take 8 classes (school is so bloody poor you can only take 6 classes max despite having 8 periods -_-).</p>
<p>And there’s seriously an in school ACT/SAT College Essentials class? I think that’s kind of unnecessary, given that you should ideally finish the standardized testing in October of your Junior year (unless you’re senior already).</p>
<p>That was what I was thinking, but thet reccomend it to all students at our school. I agree, it would be irrelevant considering I’m taking a prep course outside of school…i could possibly drop that and take psych/soc junior year. Also would three AP sciences be too far of a stretch senior year? Would I just be setting myself up for disaster?</p>