<p>My high school doesnt necessarily offer many AP's or honors for freshman and sophomores. In fact, it was impossible for me to get any Honors or AP classes as a freshman, along with the majority of my class. In my sophomore year, I only took 1 honor class, which was the most I could take. Most sophomores had 0-2 honors. Next year, I can only take 1 AP, but I'm taking 3 honors as well. Senior year will most likely be all honors and AP's. Are colleges aware of the small amount of AP's and honors that my school gives compared to other schools in my state.</p>
<p>Your counselor will send a letter that explains your school’s academic program along with your transcript. Don’t worry about this one. Just keep doing the best you can with what your high school offers, and you will be fine.</p>
<p>Agree. Many schools limit how many APs a kid can take- each year or total. Many great schools don’t offer them, by choice. Adcoms will look at your curriculum and what you accomplished in the context of your hs. But, many kids resolve this by enrolling in some local cc or college classes.</p>
<p>Maybe you can do one on-line.</p>
<p>Down here, they have Florida Virtual.</p>
<p>Do I still have a shot at UC berkely and ucla even though im only taking one ap and 3 honors as a junior ill probably take at least 3 ap as a senior
its seriously the most i can take, i would have taken more but i cant</p>
<p>If you are taking one full year AP and three full year honors courses during junior year, then you will get the maximum possible honors points for UC and CSU admissions (GPA for UC and CSU admissions includes up to 8 semesters of +1 points for honors/AP/college courses where you got a C or higher grade).</p>
<p>See if your high school is part of a Running Start program with any community colleges in the area. You could do what I did and go to community college full time until the end of your high school career, while earning dual high school and college credit through Running Start so you graduate high school as well. You can work toward your Associate’s degree and then transfer to a four-year from there; the Running Start program will pay for all your community college credits that are 100-level or above. This is amazing on your transcript, free, and you’ve already knocked out a year or more of college by the time you graduate from high school!</p>
<p>Yeah @cannibalope we kinda do
We have a local community college and we can choose to i believe skip 11th and 12th grade at high school and go to community college for 11th and 12th but only like 5 people get accepted into that</p>
<p>As long as you’ve consistently chosen the most difficult courses available and can show in other ways that you’ve mastered the material and can flourish academically in college, lack of AP courses isn’t a problem, IMO. </p>
<p>Personal anecdote: in the past, the high school I attended offered no AP classes to freshmen and sophomores, only one AP to juniors, and it didn’t seem to have deterred the good students from being accepted to the colleges of their choice, whether that was their state U or some of the most selective privates.</p>
<p>If you want the AP credits for college, you can also self study and take the exams on your own, which is probably cheaper and easier to arrange than community college classes.</p>
<p>I guess you don’t need to be worried. Most college app readers have school stats.
They know which school is easy and which is harder.</p>
<p>you might be able to take such courses on-line, which would also show the colleges that you have initiative.</p>
<p>Alright I was just worried that i was taking so few AP’s compared to people from other school districts.</p>