I have a question about my schedule, ( I’m a freshman in high school.)
English Pre AP (this is what my school calls honors)
Geometry Pre AP
World Geo Pre AP
Bio Pre AP
AP Human Geo
Health&Drivers Ed.
PE
Spanish (not an honors class)
Ok, so I’m concerned that because of me taking Drivers Ed. in school as opposed to parent taught, and because I am didn’t enroll in time for a Spanish honors class, that this will be viewed as not rigorous enough. I need a merit scholarship to get out of state, and lots of the descriptions say that course rigor is an important element of scholar selection. Is one standard class throughout high school a really bad thing in terms of striving for a merit scholarship?
P.S. The reason I’m not taking honors spanish is because I was under the illusion that I WAS in an honors class for a few days before I opened my eyes and asked the teacher, who said that it was a Spanish G class, which apparently means level. I didn’t know this, because I had just moved in.
Thoughts? lol
Looks pretty good for a Freshman to me.
One honors class freshman year will not count you out of anything. Just do extremely well in it now, and see if you can move up now or at semester. If not, make sure you do whatever needed to get enrolled in an honors spanish II next year. Good luck, and try not to stress about stuff like this now. Wait a year (but maybe not two).
I think I’ll try and talk to my teacher about getting moved up, because I can’t remember the last time I scored below a 95 in that class, ( or anybody scoring below that, I mean this class is not even remotely challenging for anyone lol) stress stress stress
For Texas public universities, class rank is highly important. Assuming you complete the required college-prep course work, top 10% = automatic admission to all except Austin, which currently requires top 7%. The other schools have additional automatic admission criteria that can be fulfilled as well.
For big merit scholarships and low cost schools, take a look in http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1678964-links-to-popular-threads-on-scholarships-and-lower-cost-colleges.html for ideas as well as targets (GPA and PSAT, SAT, ACT test scores) to shoot for.