I am currently a sophomore and am enrolled in AP English Composition, a junior/senior class. When I’m a junior I will take AP Literature, but after that there are no more AP/Honors English classes offered by my school for senior year.
During senior year I will be taking Journalism (as a class), but no other English courses.
Would this look bad to colleges?
http://www.usg.edu/assets/student_affairs/documents/Staying_on_Course.pdf says that you need to complete 4 years of high school English courses. There is no mention of how it is handled if you take the AP English courses a year earlier than usual (English courses in high school are much less commonly taken earlier than usual, unlike math or foreign language). You should check with GT and other colleges of interest what you may need to take for English after completing both AP English courses before 12th grade.
@born2swim Can you take community college class for a fourth English class? This is one reason that taking AP classes early may not pay off. Its nice to keep practicing writing all four years, and not jump ahead to AP classes if
there are not four years of English to take. I suppose taking 10th grade English in 12th grade is now ridiculous for you, but its very unfortunate that high school counselors shove kids ahead and rob them of four years of English classes. Most high schools have English electives, which may be OK. If the Journalism classes offers reading and writing it may be OK. Especially if your high school lists it as an English class. Ask.
@born2swim Can you get your high school degree a year early? Thats another angle, just go to college a year early if your parents are OK with that, and you have completed everything you need in three years.