<p>^Doesn’t change the fact that it’s extremely atypical to take mostly honors classes.</p>
<p>If your school makes you take honors, you can hardly call that honors, no? Honors is supposed to DISTINGUISH you. Same goes for AP. AP is meant for kids who want to get AHEAD in their education by taking courses that aren’t meant for high school. It’s a mockery of the AP trademark if most of the kids in your school take the class.</p>
<p>I’m going to a top college (Reed), and I took no honors as a freshman (we weren’t allowed to anyway), non-honors history (9-11, AP psych senior year) and science (9-10, dropped senior year), and more than a few electives, which obviously aren’t offered as honors classes.</p>
<p>^You have to apply to get into my school in the first place. It’d be different if it were a public school.</p>
<p>Most of the kids pass the AP exam… so what makes it a mockery? We have a 100% college acceptance. If all of our students are able to take AP level courses, then why not let them?</p>
<p>But seriously… Honors classes at my school are much harder than most honors level classes at the local public school. The level isn’t dumbed down because more people take it. =/</p>
<p>Anyways. This is all very dependent on your school. For example, if you’re taking a non-honors class at my school, you’re really low on the academic scale of things. At most public schools though, you’d just be average. A schedule is only considered to be challenging in the context of what your school offers.</p>
<p>A lot of people here at CC take AP courses in 9th and 10th grades, while my school doesn’t even allow you to take an AP course until 11th grade. That doesn’t put my at a disadvantage or show me to be taking a less challenging schedule, it just means that I’m taking the most challenging schedule available to me. That’s what you should do in all cases and it really is dependent on the school.</p>