Didn't take many honors classes during high school?

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Hello, I’m currently a junior in high school in NJ. Throughout my 3 years at high school, I have only taken 6 honors/AP classes and all the rest are normal level classes. However, senior year, I plan on taking 3 more honors/AP classes (Stat AP, Spanish 5AP, Human Anatomy H). As of now, I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA and a 6.38 unweighted (out of 7). Despite my lack of honors classes, I am in the top 10% of my class and have been inducted into my high school’s Cum Laude Society. The school that I go to is pretty competitive and is one of the top 100 high schools in the nation. (which might show you how difficult even our normal level classes are) Do you think my chances to getting accepted into a good university are small due to my lack of honors classes in high school? I would greatly appreciate any feedback you could give me!

Some additional stats:

  • 2070 SAT score
  • Good extracurriculars
    (Volunteer at hospital, weekly middle school tutor, VP of cultural society, bible school teacher and volunteer, keyboardist of Praise and Worship team, Spanish Honor Society member etc.)
  • plan on majoring in Nursing
  • some schools I’m looking into:
    Rutgers NB
    UPitt
    U of Scranton
    UDel
    Liberty U
    TCNJ
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I know some people that didn’t take “enough” honors courses in earlier years. So this is where you need to take the maximum amount of honors/ap you can handle your senior year. Likewise, try to raise that sat to a 2200. Additionally, do some subject tests. And make sure to focus deeply when doing the supplements and main essay. If you are able to do this you’ll be fine. Trust me.
I have had friends who take 1 honors freshman and gradually move to all senior and have gotten in to top 20 schools. However, they did what I suggested above to “keep up” and be competitive with ppl who have all honors. The essays can make a big difference.

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@chegirl - I would be shocked if you didn’t get into UPITT and UD with those stats. My son is senior going to UD and he had 1770 SAT and 3.45 GPA weighted and got into UD but not Pitt. He had 7 honors/2 AP courses. We are from PA so that might have helped with UD - although the schools don’t say it - is seems OOS sometimes helps

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thank you so much for the feedback!