<p>A local 4 year college has a program where I can take classes there during my senior year. I would be taking organic chemistry and calculus there instead of my hs due to scheduling issues. Because of this, My class rank would drop because I would be missing 2 periods thus not recieving the points for them. This will probably kick me out of the top 10% in my class, but Im not sure if class rank is calculated in mid year reports. I have a strong passion for chemistry/science and my transcript will show this. Should I take these classes or not, like will it look good on my college app</p>
<p>i will be doing the same thing in my senior year. it will probably look better than your normal classes/periods because taking the courses will be at college level and will be taken at the college with other college students- am i right?</p>
<p>you should take, for the experience and because it will look good, no matter what course you take. i will be taking psychology and into to expository writing. two classes which are not required by my high school, but that i will be taking because i was thinking about being a journalism or psychology major. so colleges will like that.</p>
<p>you also should get high school AND college credit, which is nice.
well that’s how my program works anyway</p>
<p>hope it works out! :)</p>
<p>well, no, I dont get high school credit, and those points dont go to my class rank, thats what im worried about, but it is a soph level class in college and I got all my reqs in, any advice??</p>
<p>take those courses…class rank wudn’t matter after say what one or two years wud it? that experience might matter far more than two yrs…</p>
<p>Can you appeal to change this policy? (perhaps school principal first, then school district staff, then school board members) Some college scholarships have the requirement of being in the top 10% so it would be worth trying to change your school’s policy. If that doesn’t work I still think it would help you to take the college classes. When my D and I toured northeast schools last month there were quite a few questions from students about credit from college classes so I got the impression that many high school students (i.e. your competition) were taking college classes. My D’s school encourages seniors to take college classes at a nearby university. They say it helps with the transition to college as you can get accustomed to the way university classes are administered.</p>
<p>If you can’t change the policy, I would suggest opting not to take the college courses. It is better to prove you were in the top 10% of your class vs. being able to tout college courses. And, enjoy high school. You’ll be in college soon enough. You’ll never have the chance to go back to high school.</p>
<p>I strongly recommend that college freshmen not take organic chemistry, let alone high school seniors.</p>
<p>why is that so GoldShadow? I heard that gen Chem classes themselves brings down the GPA really bad and that no one really learns much from those classes (correct me please if I’m wrong). If you take Organic Chem in HS (AFTER u’ve taken AP CHem I believe) and then u repeat the Organic chem again as a freshman, would it be advisable?</p>
<p>thats what I was thinking, plus i have a bunch of teachers at my school that love me and would be able to help if im having trouble, and I dont mean to brag or anything but i do have a natural knack for chemistry/science, and as far as course difficulty goes for college admission, I think ochem is as hard as it gets. Has any one else done something similar and do you think it helped with admissions, or hurt, or neither?</p>
<p>Edit I have no emotional attachtment to my high school and I wont care about “missing out” on part of my senior year</p>
<p>Are you sure it will affect your GPA that much? Check with your school how the GPA and class rank are calculated. At most schools the GPA is calculated on the number of classes you actually do - not ones that are available. So there are say 6 class periods but you are doing only 3 (because of the college classes) then your GPA for the semester will be based on the grades for those classes. So say you have all As in the 3 classes it will be (3 x 4)/3 giving a GPA of 4. The GPA would not be calculated based on classes you *could *take as in (3 x 4)/6.</p>
<p>yea, the class rank system at are school ranks on total points, not average and includes weight. (weights A=5, B=5, C=3 ect in Honors or AP classes). Thus Because I will be missing 2 classes next year, I will be missing out on 10 potential points that would enhance my class rank.</p>