My Junior Year Schudule

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Is my Junior Year schedule good for universities like Emory, Penn State, NYU, Lehigh University, UPenn, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Temple, and West Chester University?</p>

<p>Goes by Class Period.</p>

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<li>AP English 11</li>
<li>Regular Precalc</li>
<li>APUSH</li>
<li>Honor French 4</li>
<li>Regular Physics</li>
<li>Lunch</li>
<li>Gym</li>
<li>Study Hall
Essentially i am taking 2 AP's, 1 Honors, and 2 Regulars.
Is this a bad schedule?</li>
</ol>

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<p>Oh and another thing…
I am applying UPenn, Emory, and UVA through Quest bridge if that changes anything.</p>

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<p>Most colleges recommend you take the most rigorous curriculum. Any hopes of getting into UPenn depends on extra curricular and apply early decision for sure.</p>

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<p>When I toured UVA this summer, the admissions officer said that when they are reviewing applications, they look at your high school’s profile to get a better perspective of your class load. So, whether or not your schedule is “bad” depends on what your school offers. If you’re taking 2 APs but only 5 are offered, take the other 3 next year, and you’ll be fine. If you’re taking 2 but 30 are offered, that may not look as impressive.</p>

<p>With that being said, this is what I thought when I looked at your schedule:

  • Do you have to take gym, or are you passionate about it/intending to major in something related (kinesiology)?
  • What are you planning on majoring in? If you want to go into something STEM-related, it’ll be expected that you’ve gone into higher level (AP/honors) math and science.
  • Even if you want to study the humanities, I would take honors physics and precal instead of regular level courses. The schools you listed are all fairly prestigious and it will give your application a boost to have few/no regular classes your junior and senior years, if you have the opportunity.</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>Our School requires us to take Gym, no exceptions. my last period might be changed because i might take ap micro.
would that be good?</p>

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<p>Yes</p>

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<p>I’m confused… what’s AP English 11? Lang Comp or Lit?</p>

<p>Anyways, that’s kind of a moot point. Top colleges really emphasize course rigor, so I would see if you can bump the CP classes to honors because currently your schedule is a little easy for UVA/Emory/JHU/UPenn (I know kids who have take 10+ APs, everything else honors and still been denied by UPenn and the like)</p>

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<p>Emory, UPenn, and Hopkins are a high reach and that schedule is not nearly rigorous enough for such prestigious schools. The rest of them, you should have a decent chance with (depending on how well you do in those classes, SAT/ACT scores, EC’s, etc).</p>

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<p>Take online courses NOW. This looked like my schedule during junior year but I realized the dangers of sticking to such a schedule and took up a few self-study online courses. Do AP Calc BC and maybe the AP of a science course you’ve taken the regular version of. Does your school offer Multivariate Calculus senior year? I was able to self-study Calc BC and they put me in it.</p>

<p>This is an exact mirror version of me during junior year, which makes me very willing to help. I can only hope you do not fall into the same traps that I did. Do everything you can to go beyond these few courses. Ask me for help if you need anything. </p>

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<p>Reply To mathematical
Would taking calculus at local community college in the summer be good?
For everybody wondering ap English 11 = Lang comp.</p>