<p>Even If I don't have amazing grades how will my classes affect my admission, since I have stayed with and selected the most challenging course loads for myself?:</p>
<p>English-4 years
Social Studies-4 years
Math-5 years
Science-5 years
Language-5 years</p>
<p>^ that doesn't actually indicate rigor. you should list all the honor and AP classes you've taken.</p>
<p>Spanish 3 + 4 honors, and AP SPANISH; however I'm just saying that don't I have a slight advantage over somebody who lets say dropped a language or math their senior year?</p>
<p>A part of the counselor form usually asks about course rigor. For example, the common application uses Most Demanding, Very Demanding, Demanding, Average, Less than Demanding.</p>
<p>Someone with your courses, and someone missing one year of math or language would probably both fall into the same category (either very demanding, or demanding depending on your counselor's interpretation and what your school offers) and the difference would be insignificant and ultimately not very important.</p>
<p>What's important is that you took the most rigorous courses available to you, not how many courses you took. You could have taken 5 easy courses of English, and that wouldn't indicate that your course was hard at all.
I agree with the above post in that it matters how the counselor classifies your coursework; there's not much other opinion on your transcript than what the counselor says.</p>
<p>"Most demanding" at a crappy public school could be actually less rigorous than "demanding" at an elite prep school. But the point is that it's the most demanding available to you.</p>