Course Rigor

Hi everyone. I’m a junior currently. I keep hearing about course rigor on this forum and I was just wondering if my course load would count as rigorous.

Freshman Year
AP Human Geography
AP Calculus BC
English 9 Honors
Spanish II Honors
Chemistry Honors
Biology
Concert Strings

Sophomore Year
Linear Algebra *
Calculus III *
AP Chemistry
AP Physics C
AP US History
English 10 Honors
Spanish III Honors

Junior Year
Intro to Probability and Statistics I & II *
AP Biology
AP US Government
AP Economics (macro and micro)
AP Spanish Language
British Literature Honors

  • Courses taken at the university

At first look, that seems quite a rigorous transcript. Admission offices generally regard course rigor as “did the student challenge him/herself by taking the most challenging course offered by the school”. So the same transcript may be regarded as rigorous or not depending on what’s available to the student.

Given the number if AP classes and the university classes you’ve taken, I’d bet most colleges would give you a thumb’s up for course rigor.

Good luck!

Yes your courseload is rigorous. If possible however, I would recommend taking multivariable calc then ordinary diff eqs right after calc bc. Not to schedule make your more rigourous, but because if you need them for your future major that’s the best time sequentially to take them.

Yes tour coursework is most rigorous.

Sorry for the confusion. Calculus III is MV Calculus. I am also planning to take differential equations senior year.

Oh sorry! I didn’t notice calc 3 on that list.

Wow I can’t put words in proper order! “Not to schedule make your more rigorous??”