<p>Alright, so my school doesn't offer APs, but they are available online. I'm opting to complete the 44 hour general education core, which exempts me from pretty much all general education courses instate. I'm afraid my lack of AP courses will hurt me. I'm planning to apply via questbridge to some top colleges, but I would be very happy instate. I guess I would take the equivalent AP exams to prove the college classes have merit.</p>
<p>(Officially, summer term does not exist, so I'll list my courses the way colleges would see them. I'm really taking 3 of these courses during summer.)</p>
<p>What colleges will see:</p>
<p>Junior Year</p>
<p>Civics and Economics Honors
Earth/Environmental Science Honors
English III Honors
AP Microeconomics
CHM 151: General Chemistry I
ENG 111: Expository Writing
ENG 112: Argument-Based Research
MAT 273: Calculus III
PHI 240: Introduction to Ethics
AP Macroeconomics
AST 111: Descriptive Astronomy
AST 111A: Descriptive Astronomy Lab
Biology Honors
CHM 152: General Chemistry II
United States History Honors</p>
<p>Is this rigorous enough and does it look OK? I honestly don't think I could fit anything more in.</p>
<p>Selective colleges want to see that you took the most rigorous courses at your HS. I admit, not having AP courses seems to be a big negative. However, my 3 kids got into top schools, two top LAC’s and one Ivy without taking any AP’s, because their HS did not offer them. Other grads from the same HS are attending, or were accepted to, other top schools.</p>
<p>An example of the schools are-- Cornell, Brown, MIT, Colgate, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Vasser, Bucknell, Skidmore, Emory, RPI.</p>
<p>Past students have gone to–Princeton, Williams, Harvard, NYU, etc,etc.</p>
<p>You get the gist. Although you would prefer AP classes, as would have I, it will not necessarily prevent you from getting into a great college.</p>
<p>Alright thank you. I feel that while APs are available, high school is not about sitting in an online lab all day for a few college brownie points. Including AP Micro/macro, I will only take 5 AP classes my entire high school career.</p>
<p>Also consider the idea of AP-equivalant classes. Are there classes at your school that are taught at the AP level, but just don’t have the AP designation? </p>
<p>AP exams are just a short cut for colleges to understand the rigor of your school’s classes. If you don’t feel comfortable taking the AP exams off of your regular high school class, then brainstorm a bit about how you can show a college that the regular course you took is an AP-equivalent. </p>
<p>The school profile may help (or hurt); perhaps you can send the syllabus or course description from your three most rigorous classes as supplements to your application. </p>
<p>You need to show that the education that you received at your high school will not make you a potential dropout due to lack of foundation. Colleges care about rigor; rigor can be shown in many ways. AP is just one.</p>
<p>No we don’t. We actually don’t offer that much, we don’t even have pre-calculus or calculus.</p>
<p>I am thinking about taking the AP Environmental Science exam after the Honors Earth/Environmental Science, but we don’t have rigorous enough classes at my school.</p>
<p>Freshman and sophomore year, in addition to those classes at my school, I took/am taking the following online:
Algebra II
AP Art History
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics B
CCSSO/NASA Physics Honors
Geometry
Pre-calculus Honors
SPA 111: Elementary Spanish I
SPA 112: Elementary Spanish II
SPA 211: Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 212: Intermediate Spanish II</p>
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<p>The school profile will be like “We offer no APs” and the transcript makes no designation between online classes and classes at my school, so it’s going to make little sense.</p>
<p>My senior year will look like this to colleges:</p>
<p>SOCI 410: Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy
STS 402: Peace and War in the Nuclear Age
PHIL 151: Introduction to Mathematical Logic
BIO 111: General Biology I
ENG 241: British Literature I
MATH 381: Discrete Math
POL 120: American Government
POLI 414: The Adversary System
BIO 112: General Biology II
ENG 242: British Literature II
ENGL 313: Grammar of Current English
HIS 132: American History II
MAT 285: Differential Equations
PED 139: Bowling-beginning</p>
<p>I guess I would include syllabi from calculus III, Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy, and probably Discrete Math (which has calculus II as a pre-requisite).</p>
We actually don’t offer that much, we don’t even have pre-calculus or calculus.</p>