<p>I took my first non-honors/non-ap class this year (junior year) other than Spanish. A lot of my other peers took the honors class, I didn't because I chickened out and I regret it so much because I don't feel like I am challenged in my class even if the class is math, which is my worst subject being that I'm more of a history/english person lol sorry for rambling</p>
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<p>BUMP PLEASE IM DESPERATE </p>
<p>Competitive college admissions are holistic. If you’re an all star student, volunteer to feed the homeless, have completed research and been published, and are captain of a varsity sport, no not really.</p>
<p>Typically though, the people who are going to take the easier class aren’t also the ones who are extremely driven and accomplishing all of these other feats that will get them into school X.</p>
<p>You’re not defined by a single class you take (or don’t take), it probably won’t break your application to any school you apply to.</p>
<p>Not really. I took a bunch of non-honors/AP classes in subjects that I was almost certainly not going to major in (e.g. biology, US/world history, art, even though my school offered AP versions), and took several advanced math/science classes such as AP calculus AB/BC, multi-variable calculus, AP Physics C, AP Chem.</p>
<p>Competitive colleges expect you to have challenged yourself, but this doesn’t necessarily mean taking topology if you’re not going to major in theoretical math, or quantum physics if you’re not going to major in physics.</p>
<p>You’re probably overthinking this… Colleges do want to see that you’re challenging yourself—and taking a slew AP/IB/Honors courses is one way to do it—but that doesn’t necessarily imply you have to be overwhelming yourself, taking just as many advanced classes as your school would allow. For most colleges, taking the most demanding courses in your strongest areas would be sufficient—when you get to the tippy tops (e.g. the ivies), well nobody really knows what exactly what they’re looking for. In any case, it’s perfectly fine to take a couple regular classes! AFAIK, even HYP, as unpredictable as they are, would never definitively reject an applicant on account of something as trivial as this.</p>
<p>Don’t stress, as long as your other stuff is in line, you’re fine!</p>
<p>Contrary to what many on this site will lead you to believe, you do not need to cure cancer, taking every single honors and AP course offered at your school, or eliminate poverty from a third world country in order to get into the very best schools in the country. </p>
<p>There are plenty of students that have only taken a handful of honors courses, and have never cured cancer, that have gotten into any top school you could name. </p>
<p>You’ll be fine. </p>