<p>I'm in 8th Grade and we started getting recommended for honors or college prep classes. Now we are picking classes for next year. This year I was in 2 honors classes, Spanish 2 Honors and Algebra 1 Honors. How hard is my schedule?</p>
<p>Spanish 3 Honors
Biology Honors
World History Honors
American Literature College Prep
Geometry Honors
Studio Art 1
P-E</p>
<p>PS: I want to get into a top tier college</p>
<p>Colleges usually disregard freshman year fyi.</p>
<p>No… It looks about normal for a Freshman. Besides, it depends on what resources are available for you to take at your school, so it is difficult for any of us to tell you besides a general overview.</p>
<p>@Ecko, the only school I know of which discounts Freshman year is Princeton… Though most don’t give it too much weight, they most certainly do look at it rather closely.</p>
<p>Well, just don’t fail out of your classes freshman year and you should do fine.</p>
<p>I know that UCs don’t factor in freshman year whatsoever. The only weight it has is on your class rank.</p>
<p>Looks good</p>
<p>Well it depends on what your school is like. I know at my school really all freshman can do is take honors classes. My schedule was “hard” by my school’s standards, and it pretty much looked like yours but with an honors English class. I’m applying to top tier schools. Don’t freak out about it though. In the end one or two class choices freshman year won’t matter that much.</p>
<p>If those are the most challenging courses available to you, then you’re good. Make sure you follow your language through high school, or at least to the highest level possible.</p>
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Stanford, too.</p>
<p>As a freshman, you shouldn’t have very many options. Freshman year is about taking the highest level available of a standardized set of courses. English, History, Math, Science, Foreign Language, an elective, and a PE sound about right.</p>
<p>My question is about that one college prep class… Is that below Honors? If so, why not honors? English is the one class where you actually have to actively think and it’s not just a formula or memorization. Take Honors if its available.</p>
<p>if you aren’t taking AP Physics, AP Chem, AP World, AP US, AP Gym and AP Lunch freshman year than you aren’t working hard enough</p>
<p>This looks normal. Where is your english honors?</p>
<p>Where is your AP Calculus? AP Physics C?
Pssshhh, that schedule is a breeze. :D</p>
<p>Spanish 3 and Geo look good.
The rest look like the reg. frosh classes.</p>
<p>^Isn’t Geo typical for ninth grade? That or Algebra II depending on your school’s math pattern.</p>
<p>Bio would look really good if you were in my state, because no one takes that until 10th grade, because of the state’s requirement for Physical Science. =/</p>
<p>no, my school does Algebra I, Geo, ALgebra II then Calc or online courses or business math.</p>
<p>That is what my state requires of students.</p>
<p>^Yeah. Exactly. A lot of people take Algebra I in 8th grade.</p>
<p>Each school is different… but this kid’s schedule is pretty normal. It’s really hard to say if it’s competitive or not, because we don’t know what their school allows.</p>
<p>That’s a really average schedule. Good for a freshman, but not great. You need to work in some AP’s as a sophomore, though.</p>
<p>freshmen tell me that honors is much harder than college prep and has much more homework. I didn’t get recommended for honors English, so I can’t take it.</p>
<p>^ Nah there’s no real difference between honors and regular, honors just looks better. </p>
<p>And I think most schools let you take honors whether you’re recommended or not, if you get parent’s permission or something.</p>
<p>Do you guys listen to yourselves? Having mostly honors classes is hardly “typical” when you consider what that really means. Typical means normal, or what most kids do. Most kids do not take honors classes; they take average level classes. (Hell, less than 50% of the country has a bachelor’s, so one could argue that going to college isn’t typical).</p>
<p>That being said, it looks like a good schedule, although I do recommend an honors English class; mine changed my life. Don’t worry about taking all APs or honors; do what you love, and the right college will accept you!</p>
<p>^It depends on what school you go to.</p>
<p>You can’t take a non-Honors English course at my school. As a senior, only six students are in Honors English, the rest of us are in AP English, so it’s more typical to take AP Engilsh than Honors. Same with US History. Only six people took Honors US History last year, while the rest of us took AP US.</p>
<p>And if you’re interested in going to a top college, then taking a non-honors course is hardly typical. I have friends at the local public school who don’t take regular level classes and all they want to do is go to a state school.</p>
<p>Your schedule really depends on your school. If you can’t take Honors English at your school, then work to where you can the next year.</p>