<p>I have a little delima with my counselor. My current senior course load is
Consummer Bussiness math
english
Teachers assistant
Government/Econ
Ap Bio.</p>
<p>I was planning on dropping my ap bio and taking it, or some other classes, over at my local community college. My counselor said it would be bad for college applications, with only four classes, even for a CA state school. I was thinking it could be better because I would show that I am already taking college classes.</p>
<p>My question is would it really hurt my chances of acceptance by limiting my senior course load, but taking college classes instead?</p>
<p>BTW: I am quite sure I can get into most CA State schools
3.3 UW gpa
3.16 a-g courses.</p>
<p>If you’re taking courses at a community college, would it really be a lighter course load?</p>
<p>It would be because Ap Bio at the high school is a pain is the a**, but taking it at the college there is not all the crap work or busy work involved. Right??</p>
<p>My bad dchow08 I just re-read your question. That is my question that I am trying to determine, will colleges see it as good that I am taking courses or bad because I have a light senior class load.</p>
<p>Colleges definitely look down on a light senior course load, although the Cal State schools aren’t really that selective, so it probably doesn’t matter that much for admissions. However, if you have a blowoff Senior year, you may have a harder time adjusting to a college workload.</p>
<p>I am not going to blowoff my senior year, I will proably get A’s for all classes. I just feel like the risk is too high for screwing up my gpa with my first AP I have ever taken. Thats why I wanted to take it at the community college so I know I am getting credit for the grade that I get and not determined by the AP tests.</p>
<p>Am I right or wrong that if you don’t get higher than a 3 on the a test you don’t get college credit?</p>
<p>If you don’t get higher than a 3 on the test you don’t get college credit. But a 3 on an AP test is something like 50%. Quite frankly, if you don’t think you could manage that, you shouldn’t take a college course in the subject.</p>
<p>And you complain about the busy work assigned for your school’s AP bio class. Thing is, in AP bio, there is simply no TIME for the teacher to give useless assignments. There is too much material that you have to cover and understand, and too many labs that you have to do. If you take a class at a community college, sure you won’t be REQUIRED to do the busy work, but you’re still going to end up getting a crappy grade if you don’t.</p>
<p>Will you be rejected from CSUs because you took an easy senior year? Most likely not. But if you want to take biology at a community college so you can skip the busy work, you don’t understand what college classes are like. And that’s going to be a problem.</p>
<p>^Just as a note, 60% is a 5 on many AP tests. I’m guessing a 3 is around a 35%-40%.</p>