<p>will every top university adcom check graduation requirements to make sure you arent just taking a filler class like PE or health? will they really see that you are truly interested in a class rather than taking it because its easy? how much will they investigate and how much do you have to mention on your application? if colleges rank applicants based first on gpa then courseload, will an application be rejected if they see one non-IB (or AP, or any difficult course for that matter) class your senior year, thinking you were being lazy but failing to realize Intro to Econ follows your pathway? </p>
<p>i just dont want to be sold short, but reality might be that every adcom gets lazy every once in a while and who reads your application in what way is just up to luck.</p>
<p>PE is not a filler. It is a state graduation requirement, and is necessary for your mental as well as physical health and well-being. Health is a state graduation requirement too, and frankly, if it is taught reasonably well, you might actually learn some things that will be useful in real life.</p>
<p>Take classes you WANT to take. Do well in those classes. Stop worrying about whether one more AP/IB class is going to make or break your college applications. The adcoms want you to be a real person, not a machine.</p>
<p>My problem is that the transcripts are so hard to read…I’m sure that in the old days they wanted to abbreviate everything to save time. (It is IMPOSSIBLE to tell that Computer Science is Computer Science from the abbreviation they use-what was wrong with CompSci?) But now it seems like they could enter the whole course name once and then click on that every time a student takes it. The AP courses (likewise pre-AP and GT) aren’t even identified as such in the course name-they have a letter behind them and the reader has to find the code at the bottom of the page.</p>
<p>^ My school does full course name ^^</p>
<p>they spend less space on the header and more on the actual numbers/courses - pwnage!</p>