Moving from regular to honors

Applying to College
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<p>In 8th grade, my guidance counselor placed me in 3 regular courses-Math, Spanish, and Science-without informing me that they were non-honors courses (he said that they were alternative courses of equal difficulty, and I was an idiot and believed him). I was unable to change them once I entered high school. I took several online and summer courses to advance, but only in senior year (next year) will I be on the same track of honors classes as my other classmates who took honors courses all of their high school careers (I'm now one year ahead in Math, on-par in Science, and I'm dropping Spanish for AP Psych). I went from Algebra 1 to AP Stat (already took Calc AB) and from Physical Science Lab to AP Physics C. </p>

<p>Basically, this is my question: Since our school weights GPA, I know that my rank is going to be lower (my GC still says top 10% out of 499 kids, but I don't know exact yet) than it could have been had I started off better. Will this be completely detrimental, or will colleges note that I attempted to advance to the most difficult courseload possible and cut me some slack?</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>B.u.m.p ><</p>

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<p>no worries, something similiar happened to me my freshman year and I ended 1st in my class. Colleges look at your transcript hollistically and note the progression from freshman to senior year. As long as you course load steadily increased in challenge and your grades did as well, you're on the right track. Top 10% of 499 kids is respectable and will look good as well.</p>

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<p>It will probably look better since you raised up.</p>

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<p>They'll see the change in your course selection. Also, if you can get your GC to put a note in his recommendation that you worked to get to the advanced levels, that wouldn't hurt either.</p>

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<p>the real question is what can you do about it, and the answer is probably nothing.</p>

<p>you've done well in catching up, and that will definitely be a point in your favor. if i were you, i would just worry about the parts of your application that you can still control now.</p>