<p>so this is my junior schedule:
*Dance
*SAT Prep
*Trig
*US History II Honors
*Anatomy & Physiology
*American Literature 11 Honors
*Spanish 4 Honors
*Genetics
*Developmental Biology
*Honors Chemistry</p>
<p>and this is what I am considering for senior year:
*AP Biology
*AP Spanish Language
*Calculus
*Honors Physics
*British Literature 12 Honors
*Introduction to Sociology and Psychology</p>
<p>I am not looking to go to an ivy league school, but I would like to go to a respectable school
I get solid B+s and I am hoping to improve my grades in the coming years.
do these schedules seem ok?</p>
<p>You have a chance at a good school, but with the B's in non AP and honors classes will look bad. SAT Prep is not the best choice, colleges will not see it as a true academic class.</p>
<p>I agree with the above posters about the SAT Prep class. Colleges won't take your scores as seriously if they see that you've been spoon-fed the test. Plus, it isn't a very academic class. It doesn't reflect any of your interests or intellectual curiosity; it just reflects, "I wanna get into a good college." </p>
<p>I respect your judgment on the AP US History and AP English. However, like swim2daend said, you'll be taking US History and English anyway, and AP won't necessarily be harder than honors--of course, that depends on your school. If you dislike the teachers who teach those AP classes, or if you've heard horror stories about those classes, then you're almost perfectly justified in not taking them. Likewise if it just simply sounds like you'd enjoy the honors classes more than the AP classes--like, if being taught "to the test" (if that's how the teachers do it) just sounds like an awful bore to you--then go ahead; honors is still pretty good, even if it's not the most impressive option. However, if you're like, "Well, I'm just not a history/English buff, so I'll take honors instead of AP," then you might be cheating yourself out of having your counselor check that ever-so-important "Most demanding schedule" box on your application. </p>
<p>And yes, B+ is better in AP than in honors. And if those "coming years" that you mention--in which you will improve your grades--just means senior year... well, that won't help you get into a good college. Junior is the year when you should be getting the best grades possible. So, do whatever you can do to get the best grades you can get next year. </p>
<p>B+ is a good thing if you're used to getting grades of C, B-, and B. Thank god not everyone on here has a 4.0 or aspires to be a val and get into Harvard. :p But try for an A- or two, too, why don't you? Shoot high. :)</p>
<p>What is with everyone taking SAT prep? All you need for that is a few days a week with some spare time to take some practice tests or go through a review book. To everyone out there who feels like listening, don't waste your time in a class for SAT Prep. That doesn't prepare you for college at all.</p>
<p>I took an SAT prep class for one semester, but I actually got credit as, "Research and Critical Thinking," would that be considered an academic class?</p>
<p>"Research and Critical Thinking" doesn't give anyone any idea of WHAT you're doing--it can't be classified as "science" or "humanities" or "arts" or anything. So I'm not sure what colleges would consider it, besides perhaps a souped-up study hall. </p>
<p>Of course, college counselors are paid to tell colleges about the high schools they work for, and I'm sure it's part of their job to explain crypically-named courses like that one.</p>
<p>Mind you, it wasn't some souped-up study hall. But I do agree that colleges would not know what I was doing, and now that I remember, it was elective credit.</p>
<p>Well, I wasn't saying it was a souped-up study hall; but with a name like that, it sounds like something they'd call a class to hide its true nature as a slacker class. I was just kind of being cynical, though. :)</p>