<p>Okay...so, I don't go to a competitive high school or have access to even APs, and, with the most rigorous schedule possible, I've for the most part maxed out the curriculum. I'm a junior, but I need to figure out how many college classes to count on taking each semester as a senior now so that if my junior schedule needs any last-minute changes I can do it. Senior year I plan on taking (at my high school):</p>
<p>Calculus I & II (dual enrollment)
Concert band (full year)
Honors English 4 (full year)
Spanish 4 (full year)
Government (semester)</p>
<p>The question is whether I should take one class at a community college/state college branch and fill my schedule with more electives, or whether I should take multiple classes there. And, if I do take multiple classes, should I drop Spanish? (I've already taken French 4.) I'd like to have a little more intense schedule, but I'm afraid to risk my GPA too much.</p>
<p>To clarify, you want to know if one class at the college w/ many electives at high school is more or less rigorous than multiple classes at a college?</p>
<p>Obviously less electives and more serious classes would be more rigorous. I want to know how much to take on, having had a full schedule but hardly a tough one by CC standards in the past and having a job, extracurriculars, and college apps taking up time. I don’t want to ruin my GPA.</p>
<p>Calculus courses are useful to take (make sure that they are for math/physics/engineering majors, not the lesser ones for business majors, unless you know for sure that you won’t be majoring in anything requiring the calculus for math/physics/engineering majors).</p>
<p>Whether to take other college courses depends on which ones, and what your possible majors are. Be sure that they are reasonably transferable (see if your state universities have articulation lists indicating what community college courses are transferable as equivalent to which state university courses). Without knowing any other information, freshman English writing is probably the most generically useful, regardless of major.</p>