Hello. I have a question about my high school schedules from freshman and sophomore year. There is a downtrend in the level of difficulty of my classes between 9th and 10th grade. I am afraid that this may look bad to college admissions officers as I am hoping to go to Princeton. freshman year i took 7 honors classes, however, for sophomore year i switched schools. In my new school during sophomore year i took 6 classes. Already that’s one less class (is this bad?). In my new school you only really need 6 classes because the 7th class is some random class that’s not really important like music appreciation or something. Also my new school has less honors classes, but i took as many honors classes that was offered to me. I had 3 honors classes ( does this look bad because during my freshman year i had 7 honors). Also for one of my classes sophomore year I chose regular instead of AP. Therefore, my 10th grade schedule is easier than my 9th grade one because I had less honors classes, 1 less class and no AP classes. However for Junior and senior year i will be taking so many AP classes and all of my classes will be on the highest level possible. will my sophomore year schedule hurt my chances at top schools (especially ivy league schools). Will it significantly hurt my chances? My freshman, junior and senior yr schedules will be most demanding, its just my sophomore yr schedules that’s not most demanding. Sorry the grammar in this is bad, and sorry it’s long. Please reply as it would highly be appreciated.
Colleges usually will only degrade the difficulty of your classes, if you didn’t take the most rigirous schelcule offered to you. So if you take one less honors/AP class because this school does not allow you to take another it will not matter. If you take one less honors/ AP class because you believed it would be too hard/take up too much time/etc. they might look down upon it.
Why didn’t you take the AP?
my dad did not allow me to take the one AP class offered to me as a sophomore because he thought that it would be too stressful for me.
Thanks for the responses
so therefore, i didnt take one class on the highest level so i guess its not a big deal right? b/c its only one class
courseload is totally relative to your school, so less honors doesn’t matter as long as you take the max honors/most difficult courseload your school offers. 1 AP doesn’t matter too much if it’s something you are not interested in (Ex: you are science type and the only AP is Art History or Music Theory), and probably doesn’t really matter. But 1 AP soph year won’t be too stressful…only 1 AP haha it would prepare you for junior and senior stress!
So don’t worry about it, just work on doing well in those classes.