<p>My school offers virtually anything. All APs I believe and plenty of Regulars and Honors (100+ different kinds of classes). I am taking 5 APs/2 Honors when technically I could take 7 APs.</p>
<p>However, with such a multitude of classes, isn't it understandable I would be interested in a class not offered in AP?</p>
<p>My school is huge by the way.</p>
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<p>Lol I’m in the same situation as you, except my school offers a total of 7 AP’s, and I’ll have taken only 6 of them by the time I graduate. And I could’ve taken the last one too :/</p>
<p>It is OK to take courses that are meaningful for you even if they are not honors or AP.</p>
<p>They are Honors, one of which mean to be a breather.</p>
<p>Kathy, you’re going to get varying advice on this.</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think that when schools say the most rigorous course load, that they mean “Every AP offered”. For example, my D was a senior last year, she had a choice between AP English and a multi-disciplinary course at the honors level (english, history or art and history of music – in western civilization basically). She chose this course (based on interest). </p>
<p>BTW, she only had 4 AP classes (and one Post-AP) out of 16 offered at the school – and got into 3 ‘top 15’ USNWR schools. </p>
<p>Anyway – if you generally have a rigorous schedule, I don’t think taking one (or even 2) courses because they interest you will significantly hurt your chances</p>
<p>You’re fine. 5 AP’s is a lot.</p>
<p>zephyr15: I’m assuming your daughter had perfect/near perfect SATs/Grades. I do not.): Thank you, technically its 4 because AP Physics has an extended period that counts as AP. Last year the extended period was only Honors.</p>
<p>This is irrelevlant, but omg, I want to be in your school. 100+ classes how do you choose lol.</p>
<p>Yea, schools expect you to take the most rigirious course load, but that does not necessarily mean every single AP they offer.</p>
<p>Kathy</p>
<p>Excellent Grades and SATs, but not near perfect. If you’ve posted yours, tell me where and I’ll comment.</p>
<p>I did not take the SATs yet (October). 3.77 UW GPA (bad freshman year). 30 ACT and working on improving it this summer for September (I know what were my week points). So I guess standardized tests won’t really be known for sure until October.</p>
<p>Well, it probably depends on which APs you take or do not take. Some APs like English Literature and Calculus BC are usually seen as more important than others like Statistics, Environmental Science, and Human Geography.</p>
<p>Kathy</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think that a 3.77 with a rising trend is a bad GPA. At some schools, btw it would be excellent, at others, merely VERY Good. The only problem with it is that these grades, while excellent, are not exceptional – for the top 25 or so schools. Similarly, a 30 ACT is really an Excellent Score, though, again, not exceptional for the top 25 schools or so.</p>
<p>It is possible that something in your background, interests, activities, etc. that will come through in your essays or recommendations will make your application stand out. The admissions process is so hard to predict. So, if you have any ‘dream’ schools, you should definitely apply. But based on what you’ve shared, so far, the top 25 would be reaches.</p>
<p>This being said, the next tier of schools is really quite excellent, admittance to these schools should be a cause for pride and excitement.</p>
<p>On your question – the more I think about it, I don’t think that taking a course or two because of interest will hurt your application in any way material way.</p>
<p>Thank you! What if my second time taking the ACT I scored a 32+. The first time I know I didn’t do my best with all the guessing I did. I’m surprised I didn’t end up with a 25.</p>
<p>Well, with the ACT/SAT more is better. </p>
<p>You should check the college guides – if you haven’t gotten one yet, check at your library. A 30 on the ACT more or less corresponds to a 670 per section on the SAT a 32 corresponds to a 710. For the top schools, this is more or less the difference between bottom quarter of the accepted students to middle of the pack. </p>
<p>It certainly makes an application to these schools more realistic (though you still have to apply to many of them because of the low acceptance percentages at each).</p>
<p>I guess I’ll just see what happens on the September ACT and go from there with realistic colleges.(:</p>