<p>I go to community college and am hoping to transfer into a top 50 college. A lot of their websites say that they want students who have taken a rigorous course load so far. This is mine with grades:</p>
<p>English 101-A
English 102-A
United States History-A
Public Speaking-B
Statistics-B
Psychology-B
Abnormal Psychology-A
Politics of States and Cities-A
American political system-A
World Affairs(politics)-A
World Mythology-A
Philosophy-A
World History-A
Anthropology-A
Spanish 101-A
Spanish 102-A</p>
<p>As you can see I've only taken 3 political science classes because my community college only offers 3. Since i'm not in the "science/math" field I decided to take classes that require deep amounts of writing and analyzing similar to those of political science classes to maybe show them I'm able to get good grades in those kinds of subjects. Would you consider this a "rigorous" or at least decent schedule so far?</p>
<p>When I think Rigorous I think STEM or /Econ/Acct. How many units did you take a semester. If it was 20 I’d consider it kinda rigorous. Else it’s not bad by any means.</p>
<p>@bomerr thanks for the input, I thought the same since it’s kind of hard to have a rigorous social science degree schedule unless you take mediocre classes like 10 various art history classes. And as for the credits per semesters they are kind of odd. 9 the first semester, 9 the second, 15 over summer, and currently taking 20. </p>
<p>@bigred17 I’m not trying to go to Harvard or Yale. I’m looking mainly at USC, GWU, and others in that caliber. I didn’t think they required that type of intensive background for their applicants… :/</p>
<p>They don’t require that bs. They do like to see honors classes or selected/special study classes if your school offers them. Else I’m not sure what else you could take to look more rigorous. Just keep your gpa 3.7+ and you’ll get in somewhere decent.</p>