<p>I'm a sophomore in high school and I need help BADLY.</p>
<p>My high school started 4 years ago and only 250 students attend. We have no AP/Honors courses- <em>however</em>, we take elective college classes in 10th-12th grade. Will this hurt or help my chances?</p>
<p>Also, we have internships twice a week (we only go to school 3 days a week) for all 4 years of high school. Does this count as work experience, volunteer work, extracurricular, or just a class? (It's considered a class credit)</p>
<p>Our HS only has 2 extracurricular clubs- student government and yearbook. We have no class rankings. And we have no awards/honors. Not even FREAKING honor roll! This is really frustrating when I browse through here and see applicants with 4-5 clubs/ECs who are told they have a "decent shot." Do colleges take the amount of opportunities/resources available for their applicants into high consideration?</p>
<p>Wow 3 days a week.. I want to go to your school..</p>
<p>Lol, I know!! It is pretty awesome, but it seems like I end up getting twice as much work to compensate -_-</p>
<p>makes for a great essay,</p>
<p>Most schools will look at you within the context of your school. Because your school doesn't offer many ECs, they won't penalize you for not having them. I would try to get involved in some community service stuff out of school to make up for it.
I'm guessing this is a private school?</p>
<p>Samiamy, could you go into specifics about that?</p>
<p>It's a public school, but for some reason it has to work REALLY hard to get decent funding. Since we don't attend every day, we constantly have to prove we actually do work here to auditors to get basic/minimal support.</p>
<p>Also...can someone please advise me on the college classes/internships? Will this work well in my favor?</p>
<p>Yes they will probably work in your favor and will help make up for the lack of ECs. If admissions officers see that you're already doing college level work, and that you're responsible enough to hold an internship, it will look good. Also if you could get a good rec out of someone fomr the internship it would probably look very good.</p>
<p>Bump :]
Any other opinions? Please help me out!</p>
<p>you could start a few clubs.. ones that meet on the days that you're in school. starting clubs always looks good.</p>
<p>if you're taking college level classes, then take those that coincide with AP courses. Like take calc and world history, governmnet, biology whatever. And then after you've completed these courses, take the AP test. (AP tests are meant to be based on college curriculums so you should be fine in that respect). </p>
<p>You could really turn this around to your advantage because admissions officers will look at you in the context of your school and if they see that you put in all this extra effort to improve and change your school, then you will really have a leg up on most in admissions.</p>
<p>That paired with a 4 year internship! Wow, I'd love to go to your school! Just remember, you can really stand out as a leader if you try.</p>