<p>I took 10 AP classes and 8 honors classes in high school. For my junior and senior years, I took (or am taking this year) a study hall to counteract the amount of practicing I was/am doing on my trombone (which last year paid off b/c I became on the of the top 3 trombonists in the state). I could have taken two more AP or 2 more honors classes (so 12 AP and 8 Honors or 10 AP and 10 Honors) instead of the 2 study halls. Will this affect my course rigor to the admissions people? If it helps you guys to know my GPA, I have a 4.0 unweighted average <a href="4.533%20weighted%20average">all A's</a>, so would these 2 extra classes have boosted my chances higher than what they are now? Also, one of my honors classes I am taking is a thesis class, where we write a 50-60 page paper throughout the year (I plan on sending Princeton my first 2 chapters [roughly 25 pages of the paper] to show what I'm doing for that thesis). Will that class in itself pretty much counteract the 2 classes I didn't take? Is this something I really shouldn't worry about? Thanks for any replies.</p>
<p>This is something you shouldn't really worry about. Ten APs and 8 honors classes are more than enough. I wouldn't advise sending in 25 pages of a thesis (unless it is to a professor in a department of interest) either. Admissions won't know what to do with it. Instead, just summarize the nature of the paper in the additional info area. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>ok, thanks, i'll do that instead.. i just wanted to include what i'll have done at the time [which is 2 chapters by the end of dec] as proof that i'm doing it and not making it up.. but explaining it would probably work just as good</p>
<p>what if i just sent in one chapter (about 12 pages)? would that be better (still, they probably wouldn't read it, but just as proof? a few years back, a student at my school send her first chapter to UPenn, and they told her that sending it in tremendously helped her chances [which, she got in]).. but i could see how any admissions person would get annoyed with extra-large supplemental materials, especially because of all the applications that have to be read</p>