<p>I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but:</p>
<p>If you are an Ivy Leaguer, please post your Freshman to Senior High School schedules, or what classes you took from Freshman to Senior year.</p>
<p>Why? You can bet most ivy league students will have their schedules filled with AP classes and pre AP, honor level classes.</p>
<p>That doesn’t help. I’m looking to model my classes after those of another student, so just saying they have lots of AP classes is like asking what to study for the SAT and replying “math, grammar, and english.”</p>
<p>I’m not going to copy the exact same schedule…</p>
<p>Freshmen:
AP Biology
AP Euro
PreCalc Honors
English Honors
AP Environmental Science
Spanish 3 Honors
AP Music Theory</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP Chem
AP US
AP Calc AB
AP English
AP Art History
Spanish 4 Honors
AP Studio Art</p>
<p>Junior:
AP Physics B
AP US (two year class)
AP Stats
AP English
AP Micro/Macroeconomics
AP Spanish 5
AP Calc BC</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Government and Politics
AP Physics C
Multivariable Calculus
English Seminar (weighted as AP)
AP World History
AP Spanish 6 (independent study)
AP Human Geography</p>
<p>^ the above poster is not an ivy leaguer</p>
<p>why this thread is pointless
- you’re school may not offer the AP classes another students schedule contains
- it doesn’t matter how many AP classes you take, as long as you take the most rigorous courseload and your Guidance Counselor checks that off on the secondary school report
- this will not get you into an ivy league or any similarly ranked school</p>
<p>(this being the most important reason)
4. Simply by asking for info like this shows that you’re not a candidate that will be heavily considered in the selective admissions process to Ivy League schools. Why? Because you are doing everything to GET IN to one of these prestigious institutions, when adcoms are looking for what you will accomplish when you’re at that school, if you are lucky enough for selection.</p>
<p>you’re going about this the wrong way and you will end up with unsatisfactory results if you continue on this path, I suggest pursing your interest to the fullest by taking the highest level courses in subjects you enjoy as well as following your interests through extracurriculars.</p>
<p>These colleges look for passion, not a litany of AP classes on a high school transcript.</p>
<p>I was kidding. I thought this thread was ridiculous, so I decided to have some fun with it.</p>
<p>If that was actually my schedule I would probably die. Is it even possible to do 22 AP’s? I doubt it.</p>
<p>tomatox: Hopefully you’re understanding the tone of the prior posts. If you can’t discern what is “the most rigorous schedule” within the context of your own HS without asking for a template from internet strangers, then people are saying you have no business applying to top schools.</p>
<p>If you think successful applicants have a pattern that you can discern besides “excellence”, then you have no business applying to top schools.</p>
<p>If you think every HS has the same offerings, then you have no business applying to top schools.</p>
<p>You want a definitive answer? Go to your guidance counselor’s office today. Period.</p>
<p>Oh! I thought the thread title referred to Ivy Leaguers’ “post-high school” schedules! I didn’t understand what that meant. Maybe something to do with the summer before leaving for college, or taking a gap year, or something.</p>
<p>And now that I understand the OP’s request, I think it made more sense my way. </p>
<p>Seriously, tomato, students who go to Ivies and similarly selective colleges excel in the most demanding curriculum their high school can offer. It’s utterly pointless to ask for more detail than that.</p>
<p>I’m applying to a few Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>Freshman:
Algebra 2 H (H = honors)
Biology H
English H
World History H
Japanese 1 (H doesn’t exist for first 2 years)
Study Hall (required)</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Geometry H
Chemistry H
English H
American History H
Japanese 2
Drivers’ Ed
Health (last two both required)</p>
<p>Junior:
Pre-Calc H
Physics H
AP English Lang
AP Psych
Japanese 3 H
Drawing
Graphic Design</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP English Lit
AP Gov
Japanese 4 H
AP Comp Sci
Acting</p>
<p>I also took typing and a couple of art classes over the summers.</p>
<p>Is this the most intimidating schedule they’ll see? No. Is this the most rigorous schedule offered at my school? Not quite; I could’ve fit a couple more APs in there somewhere if I’d cared to. But my four years are almost done and I’m not going to stress about my schedule any more. I maintained class rigor while still not going out of my way to take a bunch of classes I wouldn’t want, I have good grades and standardized test scores to back them up, and I have deep and unique extracurriculars. Is there anything more they could ask for? Maybe, but if they don’t want me, they don’t want me, and I won’t lose much sleep over it.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re wrong or ignorant for asking, but you seem overly focused on being the best in terms of schedule. That’s not going to happen. There will always be people with schedules like the ■■■■■ one posted earlier. You may have to stand out in other ways. The Ivies look at more than schedule. Take hard classes that you can stomach, and do well in them. At the end of the day, though, it’s about a lot more than classes.</p>
<p>OP, you’ve gotten some good information, particularly in posts #8, 12 & 13.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the nature your question is a magnet for junk/joke or OT (applying is not the same as attending) posts, so closing this thread.</p>