CourseLoad

Here is my projected course load from all the way from Freshman year to senior year:

Freshman Year- All Regular Courses
Sophomore Year-All Regular Courses and Music Honors
Junior year- APLANG, APUSH, Music Honors Part 2
Senior Year- APLit, Pre Calc Honors, APMusic, Economic/government Honors, AP Psychology, AP Spanish, Anatomy and Physiology.

Total:
AP- 6
Honors-4
So 10 advanced classes in total.

My school makes it really hard to get into AP and honors courses. Do you think colleges will not like the fact that I wasn’t able to take a lot of honors in freshman and soph year?

Can you take English Honors freshman/sophomore year?
Or any other class Honors fr/soph?
Junior and Senior year are super rigorous, whereas fr/soph are not.
What are the rules at your school?
What colleges are you aiming for?

My school has rules that you need above a 95 in a class to get into honors classes for the following years.

I’m looking at schools like BU, NYU, Emerson, Quinnipiac, Syracuse, Fordham.

I’m hoping they see that I took advantage of a rigorous course load for senior and junior year. In fresh/soph year, I wanted to take honors, but I wasn’t allowed, I had 94’s and 93’s in the classes and like I said you need a 95 or above in a class to get into honors for the following years.

Can you ask your teachers what you need to do to increase your mastery so that you are at 95%, not 93? Explain it in terms of course mastery not “I want a higher grade”, as the latter is unlikely to endear you to your teacher. :slight_smile:

I don’t think it would hurt when looking at freshman/sophomore year. My school does much the same, we can’t take IB classes (we don’t have AP or honors) freshman year, and are limited sophomore year. However, I did still take 2 IB classes as a sophomore, 7 as a junior and 7 as a senior to make up for that. I think it won’t reflect poorly unless you could have taken more the past two years but opted not to.

IB classes cannot be taken freshman or sophomore years if they’re real IB classes, since IB follows MYP 5 (10th grade) and covers 11-12th.