Hi everyone, junior-parent college conferences are around the corner for me. One thing we will do during the meeting is create our senior year class schedule…Listed below is the schedule I plan on taking for my senior year. I’ll list the schools I’m most liking going to apply to below as well, and based off of those schools it’d mean a lot if someone could tell me if they think my prospective schedule is a good fit for these schools or not. Thank you for your time.
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Prospective Senior Year Schedule
- AP Human Geography
- AP US Gov & Politics (might take, might not...)
- AP Environmental Science
- AP Macroeconomics
- French IV H
- English CPE
- Pre-Calculus/Calculus CPE (depends if my school allows me to take a college pre-calc course this summer in place of my schools pre-calc course).
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Prospective Schools
- Northeastern University (1st choice; a reach for me currently, but I will apply).
- Fordham University (very likely to apply)
- University of Delaware (very likely to apply)
- University of Vermont (very likely to apply)
- George Washington University (may apply)
- American University (may apply)
- Boston University (may apply)
- Boston College (may apply)
Thanks again for reading!
Don’t kill yourself with AP if you can’t handle it. If you can go for it, but you will still be a strong candidate without all the AP courses. It’s strong course list for prospective schools but your GPA and test scores matter more.
Thanks for the reply. I feel my GPA may be a bit low for the harder schools, and I haven’t taken any tests yet, so I thought seeing a challenging schedule would make up a bit for that.
Schools will want to see the best GPA with a rigorous schedule. One thing that may help would be to look up your list of schools and see what they rank as most important (google name of school then common data set). For example Northeastern notes on their common data set that GPA, test scores, and rigor are all very important while class rank is only “considered”. You can also see ranges of tests scores and GPA’s. These will give you an idea where you would fall. That’s easier to do after junior year grades, but could give you something to strive for the second half of the year. For ACT or SAT test, be sure to take a few practice tests as it gives you a better idea of timed tests and where you can improve before the actual test. Good luck!
@jcmom716 Thank you for responding! I will lookup each school and what they rank as most important. I also have been doing a lot of test prep so hopefully it will pay off.
Your schedule is good - I assume you’re planning to major in social sciences or humanities.
Run the NPC on each of your “likely” schools and present the results to your parents: can they afford the net price?
What’s your GPA and test scores?
@MYOS1634 thanks for the reply. I’m overall undecided as of now, but may try business as well. I have a 3.59 weighted gpa and haven’t taken any tests yet. I know the gpa is low but I am doing very good this year and plan for it to rise to around a 3.75…Even though a 3.75 is still low for Northeastern and some other schools listed, I’ve looked a my high school’s admissions scattergrams an according to them about half of the students coming out of my high school have been admitted to Northeastern with gpa’s between 3.6-4 and a 1400+ SAT score (which is what I am aiming for). I’m just using that as an example because it’s my top school.
Typically, northeastern would expect 3.6-4.0 unweighted, not weighted.
Have you discussed costs with your parents?
Your list should be made of affordable schools. Start running the NPC 's and bring them the results.
@MYOS1634 Yes, I am aware the 3.6-4.0 is expected to be unweighted but the scattergram I viewed shows weighted gpa’s because the scale goes up to a 5 so I’m not sure if they’re more lenient to my high school or what the deal is. I have a not discussed costs throughly with my parents, but plan to do so after my college junior-parent conference later this week. I will definitely use the NPC’s for my more likely schools as well.