<p>Will course rigor be evaluated based on senior year schedule just as much from previous grades? For example, if you took 4 APs and 4 honors (combined 9-11) before senior year and 5 APs senior year, will taking those 5 APs be as good as taking total of 13 weighted classes more evenly distributed through high school?</p>
<p>In other words, is it the total number of honors/AP/IB that really matters?</p>
<p>Yup, I can’t see why that wouldn’t be the case.</p>
<p>How would colleges knows if you TRIED to take harder classes, but they didn’t fit with your schedule. That has happened to me and I’m worried that colleges will think that I didn’t “try” to challenge myself, when I did.</p>
<p>Damon1570: Talk to your guidance counselor about mentioning that in her/his reccomendation letter. I asked mine to mention why I was unable to take AP Biology so as to alleviate any concerns among adcoms that I was “slacking off” in AP enviro.</p>
<p>Ok, for example:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>one student took 2 APs sophomore year, 5 APs junior year, and 4 APs senior year</p></li>
<li><p>another student took 1 AP sophomore year, 3 APs junior year, and 7 APs senior year. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Does one student have an advantage over the other?</p>
<p>I worry about this too. As of this year, my school now offers six AP’s. Last year they offered three (two for juniors, one for seniors). I’m going to be a senior and I’m taking DE Gov (which is 6th and 7th period), and the three new AP’s are online classes (offered only 4th-7th period), and since AP Lit is only 4th period, it’s impossible for me to take all six. I can only take one online AP. </p>
<p>I guess I should get my GC to mention this, huh?</p>
<p>Your counselor will have to check a box that ranks your rigor vs. what was available. Talk to them directly if you have issues.</p>
<p>Yes, in the context of schools like the top 10, the counselor designation must be quite important. </p>
<p>But what about for top public places? I talked to an admissions officer from UM, and he told me that they really don’t care about what the counselor actually says, but they use the recommendation more to “read you profile so they don’t have to have your transcript there all the time” and that they go more by their own predelictions.</p>
<p>So how will schools that use their own judgement to evaluate course rigor view the situations?</p>