<p>What do colleges prefer? Having a higher GPA or harder classes?
I currently have a 96 GPA which isn't near enough to get me into top 20, but I also know that I'm taking the hardest classes that are offered to my grade. Would colleges be able to compromise, or would they with one over the other?
My top choice is Cornell Dyson as of now</p>
<p>Top colleges want to see both. They want to see you taking AP and Honor’s courses and excelling in them, as the curriculum at Harvard, Yale, Cornell etc. tends to be more difficult than the curriculum at Kansas, Marshall, or South Dakota State. A 96 GPA isn’t bad, just try to get all As, knock your SATs out of the park and who knows what’ll happen.</p>
<p>Thanks! I’ll be taking my sat in a couple of weeks, and I’ll be ending off junior year with 10 APs in total. </p>
<p>10 APs by end of junior year is very unusual. About 5000 students annually complete Hugh school with that many APs, I have no idea how many finish 10 by junior year but obviously you are certainly showing “rigor”</p>