<p>Spanish 3
Fun/trig (Pre calc)
Ap us history
Ap english
Ap psychology*
Creative writing 2
Physics*</p>
<p>Alternatives for ap psych
Ap stats
Ap euro*</p>
<p>I'm going to be a junior btw. I could possibly do ap physics but I feel like I would struggle. I was planning on taking ap bio but we had a huge schedule mess up at my school and now all the juniors we're kicked out of ap bio.</p>
<p>I think I’m going to take ap euro instead of psych because I really like history and I think that would show that thats what I’m passionate about.</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor as they must fill out the common app secondary school report (SSR) and check off boxes about the rigor of your course schedule as compared to all other students in your class. It doesn’t matter what anyone here says, as colleges look to your GC for those kind of details.</p>
<p>As gibby says, your guidance counselor may be a good resource, especially if he or she is a good counselor, and has the time and resources to counsel folks as needed.</p>
<p>I know my son’s school has a guidance counselor dedicated to helping students figure out stuff related to college. But it’s a private school not large in comparison to local public schools. We have friends whose kids went to a large public school in a very highly-regarded school district. Frankly, the guidance counselor was pretty useless with college-related issues.</p>
<p>But you, the student, should have a good handle on the circumstances of your school. You know the curriculum. You know the typical progression of students in your school. You’re doing pre-calc this year. That’s often the top track for kids in many schools, followed either by AP Calculus AB or BC in the senior year. That’s how it’s done in my son’s high school. If that’s how your school does things, then you’re in the thick of things.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there are a number of schools in our region that make it possible for juniors to take calculus, leading to an additional year of more advanced math in senior year. If your school allows for that, then you’re not quite at the top of the ladder in that area. That will have some impact with a school like Harvard.</p>
<p>You know (or should endeavor to find out) how grades look, especially in the top-track courses. At my son’s high school, almost no one gets higher than a B in AP Calc BC or AP Physics C. But well over each class scores a 5 on the AP exam. Top schools that are familiar with a given high school know this - you should know it or learn it, too.</p>
<p>In terms of the secondary school report, a lot of that data is available through Naviance. I don’t know whether your school uses Naviance, or whether you have access to it, but if you do, it’s a great tool for figuring out, on your own, how your school measures up.</p>
<p>Through my son’s account, I learned how many kids each year typically apply at the Ivies, and how many are accepted. I saw the median SAT of those who applied and those who were accepted, along with median GPAs, along with overall SAT and GPA data of the entire senior class. Very, very cool tool.</p>
<p>Knowing this information, I can tell with two pieces of data whether the application from a student from my son’s school is competitive at the Ivies. Tell me SAT score and approximate class percentile (or GPA), and I can tell you whether the student is probably competitive or whether the student maybe might want to apply elsewhere. </p>
<p>Naviance told me how individual schools look at students from my son’s school. It gave me a very good idea of the objective measurement standards of my son’s school for which specific universities and colleges are looking from students at my son’s school.</p>
<p>If this data is available to you, and you have a mind for analyzing data sets, this stuff is priceless, especially if you go to a high school where the level of college counseling isn’t high.</p>
<p>Even at my son’s school, his college guidance counselor was helpful and available, but deals much more with students applying to schools that are not in the very top tiers of higher education. By the end of our two-year journey with our son, we were more expert than the counselor in the ways of Ivies and other top tier schools than the counselor.</p>
<p>Seek advice from any reasonable source, but try to develop your own data sets and try your best to analyze and learn from them.</p>
<p>Hello People!</p>
<p>My schedule this year as a junior is:</p>
<p>AP Art History
IB Philosophy
IB Biology 2
IB Math Higher Level 2
IB English 3
IB French 4
IB History of the Americas
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>My Schedule as a Sophomore:</p>
<p>AP Computer Science A
AP Environmental Science
AP Psychology
IB Math Higher Level 1
PLTW Principles of Engineering
IBMYP English 2
IBMYP Physics 1
IBMYP Chemistry 1
Honors Medical Sciences 1
IBMYP Civics and Economics
Honors US History</p>
<p>My schedule as a Freshman:</p>
<p>IMBYP English 1
IBMYP Algebra 2/Trig
Honors World History
IBMYP Biology 1
Freshman Seminar (required)
Honors SAT Prep
IBMYP Gym/Health
IBMYP French 2
Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors French 3
Honors Calculus</p>
<p>High School Courses I took in Middle School:</p>
<p>Honors Algebra 1
Honors Geometry
Honors French 1
Honors French 1, part 2</p>
<p>I honestly want to get into Harvard and I take everything seriously please suggest some other stuff I could do.</p>
<p>EC’s:</p>
<p>HOSA States 3rd place
National Academic League Championship
12 tournament…
many other tournaments
(no joke)</p>
<p>I have mostly A’s but I have picked up some B’s due to extremely hard teachers(that are most of the time racist…no offense to teachers)</p>