On certain applications (eg. USC) it only asks for AP and IB, there is no box for pre-ap and honors. Do I write honors after the title of the class (eg. English I Honors) or just leave it blanc even though honors classes are way harder that regular ones???
<p>...whats pre-ap? are honors really THAT much harder (that was a serious question)</p>
<p>pre-AP means preparation for Advanced Placement, and yes these classes are much herder than the regular ones which are often a joke</p>
<p>There is a website (sorry -- don't have the link off-hand!) that your school most likely knows of which will provide for you which classes count for honors/AP consideration.</p>
<p>In other words, if the course isn't on that list, it doesn't count as anything other than a regular course with a fancy name.</p>
<p>Edited to add: I misread USC. The site I was referring to was specific to the UC system. However, I would recommend that you find the site and see what the UC system would consider applicable -- chances are if it's there, it'd be good to find a place to add it, and if not, you should consider if it might not be better to just let USC see your transcript, which I assume you have to send, and determine for themselves whether those "maybes" ought to count.</p>
<p>Write English I Honors as the course title. That's the way it was on the UC application, at least.</p>
<p>lol, i'm halfway through changing my Honors classes to pre-AP classes, I was going to write the name exactly as it says it on my transcript which is English I pre-AP with an H for honors in a column for detailing the class, should I leave it like this??? Did anyone else apply to USC and have this problem? By the way all my pre-AP classes are normal things like english, history, french and biology, I don't have any fancy ones like PE pre-AP, that would be stupid!</p>
<p>do any of your schools even have pre-AP classes or is it just at my school district?</p>
<p>I've heard of them, but personally, my district doesn't use them. We're pretty well laid back about the whole AP-Deal. You want in the class, you're in the class. No honors or Pre-AP required.</p>
<p>Yeah, our passing rate isn't that impressive. But ehh... As long as I pass, I care not.</p>
<p>Pre-AP isn't required to be in an AP class it just prepares you more by offering a harder curriculum than the regular class</p>
<p>Ah. That's not how they do it up in FPSD (which is what I made my analysis based on). Of course, up here, AP is frequently less work than the regular classes, so I'd take anything I say with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>How can AP be less work than a regular class? Do people actually pass the AP tests there, or is a regular class just really hard compared to everywhere else?</p>
<p>Well, it's less work in that we have less class work, and less homework. It's a lot of discussion based learning here.</p>
<p>We do have about 50%-75% pass rates, depending on the class. I think our World History test is the highest, while the Statistics test gets the lowest.</p>
<p>The regular classes, I wouldn't know in comparison to everywhere else. They give a lot more homework, and do more in class, but spend very little time discussing things.</p>
<p>A trade off, I suppose.</p>