<p>Freshman year:
Biology
Trignometry
English
Debate 1
Health
World History
French 2
Full year Study Hall</p>
<p>Sophmore year:
AP Statistics
AP US History
IB MAth SL 1
French 4 (took french 3 over the summer)
English
Accelerated Chemistry
Debate 2
semster study hall</p>
<p>Junior Year:
AP Biology
AP Physcology
AP Economics
IB Americas HL
AP English Composition
IB Math SL 2
Personal Finance
semester studyhall</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP Physics C
AP Calculus BC
AP Government
IB Enviroments
IB Americas HL 2
AP Literature
Full Year Study Hall</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor whether your schedule would be rated as most demanding on the Secondary School Report. It looks OK to me, but it’s the GC opinion that matters.</p>
<p>Rigor in schedule is but one part of what top schools are looking for in potential applicants. Grades, test scores, ECs, essays, and recommendations are also taken into account. Good luck.</p>
<p>If your school offers the IB diploma, you don’t appear to have chosen the diploma, thus you haven’t taken the most rigorous courses available. While that might no be seen as a big deal, it may be something you see on your school report. 3 full years of study hall could have been an academic subject plus(Is this a private school?) Personal finance could have been an online or summer school? Again, no big deal for normal humans. And no third science? ? What would be your major? </p>
<p>Personally, it looks quite rigorous to me. However, colleges will compare the AP classes you’ve taken to how many your school offers, so I’m not sure how you compare in that regard.</p>
<p>“Most rigorous course available” is within reason - not taking the IB diploma but taking 10 Ap’s PLUS IB classes would qualify as “most rigorous”. (A GC counselor who wouldn’t think this “most rigorous” would thus be “read in that context” by adcoms. Colleges don’t think 10 APs+ IB classes are less good than 15 APs. Essentially , once you have core classes and 8 Aps or equivalent, it tapers off.)
OP has 5 sciences, Foreign Language up to Level4 (up to AP or 5 would be better/expected), Math up to BC, English and Social Studies every year. There’s nothing wrong with that schedule as per the most selective schools. The only thing you could change is take a “fun” class (cooking, choir, ceramics/pottery…) instead of study hall and make sure to have one art class (at least for half a semester).
Of course, the most selective schools would also expect you to do well in all these classes. Don’t take so many AP/IB classes if you can’t get at least a B in them.</p>
<p>10 APs and 5 IB courses seriously people??? Your schedule is definitely rigorous enough for pretty much any college. I wouldn’t worry too much about study hall or “personal finance”, as they are academic courses just like the rest of your schedule. </p>
<p>It’s rigorous enough for anywhere, the thing is, purely academic admits are few and far between at Ivies - that’s where leadership and ECs and legacy and URM status and athletics all come into play.</p>
<p>What is “IB Enviroments”? There are not 5 IBs, I think there are 2, history HL , math SL. SL math can be a 1 yr course, HLs are often taught side by side with APs so kids who sit the IBs also sit the APs in the crossover subjects (history, Eng, sciences, math. Depends on your school). The kids with the full IBD often come out with 10 APs without studying them all separately. </p>
<p>@Alfonsia sorry, but not true. Most IB programs do not combine with AP- they are separate programs completely. And why are you questioning OPs classes being IB or not? If they say that the classes are IB- they are! Also, at a given high school, taking the IB diploma may not be the most rigorous option.</p>
<p>^OP: I wasn’t talking “art to fulfill a HS requirement”, I was talking “art because some colleges will require an art class or will appreciate an art class”. Pretty much all colleges in California (and definitely the UCs) require an art class, for instance.</p>