<p>I am currently a high school sophomore and am extremely interested in Stern. I don't really want to post all my stats up, but I have a question. How important is the course difficulty when choosing students to admit for stern? Freshman year, I had a 3.9 GPA unweighted with 1 honors class, and this year, I have a 3.6 GPA with Algebra 2 Honors and Bio honors. Next year, I will we taking pre-calc honors and Mandarin 3 honors. (I am NOT asking for a chance, so don't judge me based on my grades. I haven't posted SAT's or EC's up.) So, does stern particularly look hard at the rigor of the courses you take? Will it look bad if I am not taking all honors/AP classes?</p>
<p>you don’t need to take all AP classes. I had 2 junior year and 5 this year…but NYU didn’t even see the 3 I had in the fall semester in senior year (they don’t require a mid-year report). I was able to get in RD no trouble.</p>
<p>I would recommend upping your honors and AP courseload (to maybe 4 or 5 combined honors and AP per year for the next two years), getting high SATs, and EXTRACURRICULARS…It sounds obvious, but I cannot tell you how nervous I was about the thought of my application being subpar for Stern RD before I got my acceptance</p>
<p>^^ I agree with the above poster. You should take AT LEAST 4-5 honors and AP courses, though you’d probably want to take more, especially for Stern. The average for Stern seems to be like 5 APs total plus a lot of honors. </p>
<p>With only a 3.6 in only 2 honors classes so far, you might not want to push yourself as far as to take that many honors/APs. It would seemingly kill your GPA to the point of no return. Your choice though as you know your capabilities the best!</p>
<p>It’s pretty early for you. you still have half of sophomore year and all of junior year to pull your gpa up. I just got into BPE today so I’m pretty excited. All the classes I took in high school were honors courses with a few APs tossed in starting junior year. Senior year, all AP courses. Definitely take them but be prepared to spend hte time and keep your grades up.</p>