Will any competitive LACS such as Wesleyan or Pomona or larger institutions such as UC schools or University of MIchiganc consider you without APs and honors classes? The highschool is otherwise a very well though of private prep school in New York. Any experience with that?
Does your school offer APs/honors classes? If the answer is yes and you did not take those classes then your lack of rigor in your schedule will hurt you for top tier schools.
so what tier would be available?
The more selective colleges will want to see that you chose many of the more rigorous course options that are available to you.
" The highschool is otherwise a very well though of private prep school in New York."
Where families spend the avg annual income of American families per year as tuition/fees to send their kids for each grade – so that they can have crappy class selections and terrible college prep experience? Stop and consider that.
T26E4 is so right. After 5 years at a private school in NY, my son just transferred junior year to our suburban public high school. It offers much, much more, has better and more qualified teacher, better prep for SAT (Private not versed in CC) and its all for FREE! This took bravery on my son’s part…who wants to start all over again for the last two years of high school? We are looking at the money we would have spent on two years of private as a scholarship toward college. I also believe no longer are college admissions looking for white males from private schools. Maybe just to pay the full tuition rate?
@T26E4 - You don’t know that the school has crappy class selection. All you know is that the OP didn’t take honors/AP classes. Some of the high end prep schools that have pipelines to elite colleges offer AP courses. Others offer honors classes that are more rigorous than AP courses in place of AP courses. We don’t know anything about the school’s course selection.
@Proudpatriot OP mentions his/her school has no APs in another post. I’m saying the OP has nothing to worry about and that the school wouldn’t be a “well thought of NY college prep HS” unless it was successful and has great advising (which the OP seems not to have taken advantage of)
OP is sitting on an 34 ACT composite and it seems the school has lots of grade deflation. Thus the source of his/her anxiety.
@Empireapple – sorry your experience was worthwhile at your kiddo’s 1st school. Glad you’ve found a great place for your son!
Actually, this is for someone else. this is not about what I was talking about in another post. This person is not taking classes that would be equivalent to AP classes-Bio, Spanish. Just regular classes.
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