<p>Just to give you an idea: (lowest grade A-)</p>
<p>Pre-High School (8th grade but on transcript)
Spanish II
Earth Science
Algebra I</p>
<p>Freshman Year
Honors English
Honors Global Studies
Honors Biology
Honors Geometry
Spanish II
Film I</p>
<p>Sophomore Year
Honors Chemistry
Honors English
AP European History
Honors Algebra II
Spanish III
Science Research Program</p>
<p>My school does offer full IB diploma, but due to scheduling conflicts and the restrictive nature of the program in my school, I might not do it. Would it hurt me? This would be my schedule:</p>
<p>Junior Year
IB Physics
IB English
IB History of the Americas
IB Math SL
IB Spanish I
Science Research</p>
<p>Senior Year
IB Chemistry or Biolgoy
IB English
IB History of the World
AP Calculus BC
IB Spanish II
Science Research</p>
<p>I hope to also do another science, maybe 2 in senior year</p>
<p>It looks fine. Don’t stress about it too much. You should choose a schedule that will adequately challenge you, not drive you to the brink of insanity in terms of its workload. In other words, don’t bite off more than you can chew. Good luck in the college admissions process! :)</p>
<p>If you feel you can handle your schedule then go for it, I dont suggest taking challenging classes you feel you may have trouble in just because they will look good for college because a college would MUCH rather see a A in a less challenging course versus a B/C in a more challenging course. From the looks of your schedule though, it looks like you are on the right track! Keep up the good work, all A’s and the courses you have taken are all very impressive, dont forget though while grades and scores are hugely important, make sure you show your colleges your applying to that your much more then grades and scores, show them you do stuff outside of school ( i have no idea if you do or dont, but since this thread was titled ivy hopeful, im just throwing in some suggestions)Best of luck!</p>
<p>^ Not true. In fact, it’s actually the other way around. The Ivies want to admit people who have challenged themselves; they want to know that the freshmen they admit will be able to handle college level work and thus will not flunk/drop out.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this affects anything, but in my only college-level class, AP Euro, I got an A- (exam grades from 78 - 94, average 85), and this quarter am getting an A+. I got a 740 on the SAT II Bio M.</p>
<p>For a shot an an ivy, the idea is to take the hardest course load your school offers. You are first compared to your classmates at highly selective colleges.Rank is key whether your school officially ranks or not.</p>
<p>The person who said colleges would rather see a high grade in a less challenging class is 100% incorrect.</p>
<p>I guess there is no correct answer to that, honestly it depends how you look at it. I was wrong to not explain what I mean. I was talking about this person in specific, he/she has already taken MANY challenging courses, if he/she was concerned about just one class then I’d say give yourself a break and get the A, in either case, if this person were to take the “less challenging” course at his/her school it would still be considered a challenging course seeing the high level of courses he/she has already taken, basically he/she would still be in a higher class then the average senior student.
I didnt mean to generalize that, but then again there is no right or wrong to that because if your taking all AP’s and getting C’s in the class that is not good, if you take the less challenging course you could be getting all A’s. That is simply what I meant when i said that.</p>