<p>The colleges I'm looking at are MIT, CMU, Princeton. I haven't taken AP English classes because I have a job, tutoring and math team plus all my other classes and AP English at my school is the most time consuming class besides Chem/Physics which is easy for me. Everyone tells me that it's most important to take the most rigorous course load but I just don't think I could do it. Anyways what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Your 11th and 12th grade courses seem quite rigorious, also I think it's a plus that you are still managing to take AP econ.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much about it, a lot of people I know took very few AP classes freshman and sophmore years and still got into top colleges. Just make sure the other parts of your app (ECs, recs, essay) are killer.</p>
<p>To me 4/7 AP's Junior and 6/7 AP's Senior year is definitely tough enough courseload, but you can only decide that by yourself. How do you compare yourself to other students in your class? Colleges are looking to see that you took the hardest courseload in your high school; they're not going to penalize you for not having the option to take harder courses. That being said, I don't thing you'll have a problem anyways with your courses.</p>
<p>Compared to other kids at my school I'm taking it easy with 4 APs junior year. Kids are taking 7 in school (every period), a couple online, and then more at the community college. Rank 1-20 is completely unattainable by me.</p>
<p>To K1N6 O7 SP4D35: See I have the opportunity to take AP English Lit and Lang during my Junior/Senior year and I had the opportunity for AP World History Sophomore year but I didn't take them.</p>
<p>World History and Stat were the only 2 APs our school allows before Junior year and I wasn't eligible for Stat.</p>
<p>At this point, your GPA really plays a big part.
Also, I looked at your chance thread and see that you are a rising junior...so make sure you try your best to get A's in all your classes and 5's on your AP tests. That way, you will be telling the adcoms that although you're taking less AP's, your succeeding in each of them. I think it would be extremely difficult to get all 5's in 7 AP tests. Also, make sure to emphasize your involvement and dedication in other activities and they will probably overlook that you aren't taking the most rigorous courses possible.</p>
<p>Why are you taking a class in qbasic? If you want to learn programming, and decided to start with basic to learn the basics, then thats a bad idea and a waste of time. You would be much better served strating with a modern language and learning oo from the start by starting with c++, java, python, etc. Programing rapidly changes, so while you could learn some of the basics in basic, you would also learn useless outdated crap and can just as easily pick up the basics and a lot more important stuff in a modern language.</p>
<p>Now if you are simply interested in qbasic just read some tutorials, its really not worth taking a class.</p>
<p>To your question your schedule is more than rigerous enough to give you a good shot at those schools.</p>