<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012/2012SchoolReport_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012/2012SchoolReport_download.pdf</a></p>
<p>Rather than ask for opinions on CC, you should speak with your guidance counselor, who must fill out a Secondary School Report (SSR) on your behalf. Specifically, your GC is asked to rate the rigor of your course load, as compared to other college bound students at your high school. See page 2, top right hand corner of the above pdf.</p>
<p>All selective colleges – including MIT/Caltech – are looking for students who take the MOST DEMANDING course load at their high school. If other students at your school are taking AP History courses and AP Foreign Language courses, while you are not, how will your GC rate the rigor of your couse load? Would they rate you as having the most demanding course load if you took more science and math courses instead? That’s really the question here – and your GC is the only one who can answer it!</p>