<p>I am going to review my freshman and sophomore year first.</p>
<p>Freshman-
Math Concepts (8th grade)- B
English Grammar-B
World History-A
Biology and Biology lab- A
Etymology- B
New Testament Survey- A</p>
<p>The reason why I was doing some middle school stuff is because I didn't really finish middle school because I kept switching programs and never finished them so I had to catch up.</p>
<p>Sophomore-
Pre-Algebra- A
English 1- A
World Geography- A
Honors music- A
Honors health- A
Speech- A</p>
<p>Junior (current, just finished first semester)-</p>
<p>English 2 and 3- A in first semester
Algebra 1- A
Geometry- A
U.S. History- A
Physical Science- A
Bible- A
French- A</p>
<p>Senior year 1-</p>
<p>Trig. and Algebra II
AP U.S. History
AP Economics
AP U.S. Government and Politics
English IIII</p>
<p>Senior year 2-
Pre Calc. or College Algebra (which one would be better?)
Creative Writing honors
A.P. Comparative Government
A.P. World History
A.P. Literature
U.S. Civics (half a semester)
Economics ( I am assuming I wont have to take this if I take AP Ec.)</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that I'm homeschooled. I want to get into University of Chicago, Stanford, Harvard, or Princeton. Will my first 2 years of high school ruin it for me? Also what would my GPA be so far? I will be working hard on getting all A's. </p>
<p>Does my plan sound good and if not, what should I change?</p>
<p>At the moment I want to study law/politics but as a teenager that will most likely change. Math and science are the hardest subjects for me so what math stuff would I need to study?</p>
Honestly, I think this schedule is going to hurt you. Colleges expect 3-4 years of a foreign language and 4 years of all the core subjects. I only see 3 science courses and they are very basic ones. Ideally, you should take honors or AP versions of chemistry, biology, and physics. I don’t think your first 3 years are rigorous at all. Most students take algebra 1 in middle school or at least in freshman year. For schools like Uchicago or Harvard, you should have taken calc 1 by the time you graduate, at a minimum. Another problem I see which may be too late to fix is that you just decided to go from a very basic schedule to six AP classes your senior year. This isn’t good.
To be honest, your schedule is very weak. You would not even qualify for a regular high school diploma in our state, much less impress a highly selective college. Main issues I see:
You are way behind in math for a student seeking admittance to a top college. As a hs junior, you aren’t really prepared to take the SAT/ACT math sections. Most hs students would at least be in algebra2, and most of your competition for top schools will be more advanced than that.
Top schools like to see 3-4 years of foreign language. A single year of French wouldn’t even get you a diploma from our high school.
Science, again lacking. I think our school requires 3 years for graduation and top schools would expect 3 or 4 years.
Even with the extra year of high school (how will you explain that?) you aren’t taking enough courses to meet minimum expectations for core academics. In many schools, kids are taking 7 or 8 courses. There are schools where kids take only 6 courses, but I think in those programs they have to be very focused on getting their core academic requirements done–that’s math science social studies English foreign language, pretty much every year, and can’t spare much room for electives.
I’m also wondering how you were promoted to 9th grade when you evidently had not completed either 8th grade math or English. That would be an automatic hold-back in our middle school. I don’t think it will impress colleges as far as the rigor of your homeschooling that you started high school doing 8th grade core work (and actually the math looks like what the non-honor 7th graders might take at our school). I also don’t think you can count middle school level courses toward a high school GPA or toward graduation credits.
At this point, I think the best you can do is up the rigor of your remaining time, fill in the holes (you’ve only got 5 classes in your first senior year? why?), and do extremely well on a bunch of standardized tests to provide some external validation for what you’ve accomplished. Unless you have some truly extraordinary extracurricular accomplishment you haven’t mentioned, I think a more realistic goal would be trying to get into your state flagship. There are plenty of kids at our high school with more demanding programs who don’t get in.
Did you decide on your future major?
Try doing some activities or stuff that revolve around those. Just don’t sit at home all day studying you know? xDDD
Summer-
ACT, Trig., AP Psychology and French
Year 1-
AP Macro/Microeconomics
Algebra II/Pre Calc
English IIII
AP U.S. History
AP U.S. Government
AP Human Geography
Chemistry
French
Year 2-
Calculus
AP English Literature/Language
AP World History
AP Comparative Government and Politics
AP Environmental Science
AP French (possibly)
Physics (really don’t want to)
Since you are homeschooled, I recommend making the most of all of the time you have left in high school- you may be able to complete more classes if you commit to working more hours per day, on weekends, and over the summer. I’m not sure how colleges will view a fifth year of high school.
I’m noticing that your four-year plan is very social studies heavy, so it may benefit you to replace some of these courses with science classes (colleges will expect you to have taken biology, chemistry, and physics at the very least).
Your math is what it is at this point. I would choose pre-calc over college algebra if those are your only options, but I don’t think it is necessary to take both trig and pre-calc. I think it is possible for you to complete Calc I during your senior year instead.
Your best bet for gaining admission to the colleges you have mentioned is to start somewhere else (probably either your state flagship or local community college), and then transfer after you have had the chance to build up a high college GPA.
It would probably be better if you took algebra 2 over the summer instead of trig. Trig is typically included in precalc so you should take that in your first senior year.
I agree with @geros9 that your schedule seems social studies heavy, there is no need for you to take 5 social studies courses in one year(especially since many of those are considered AP Lites.)
You would be better served by first planning out the required graduation credits of your state(for public school students) and then customizing the plan with additional courses that you are interested in majoring in or studying in college.