<p>In the admission process, do colleges take sufficient notice of courses that one takes that are not AP courses, but courses that are taught by a professor from the local university? For example, I will be taking an organic chemistry class taught by a college professor.</p>
<p>I'm worried about this too. I looked at counselor recommendation forms and they often ask, "How many APs is the student taking?" APs are so overrated.</p>
<p>Yes, they take notice. Wow, organic chem?? I heard that was ridiculously hard.</p>
<p>Depends mainly on who teaches it....</p>
<p>University of Delaware professor is the teacher</p>
<p>Is it given through your high school? If so, how will the colleges know that it's taught by a UDel professor? They'll only take note if someone mentions it to them. But even if it is taught by a professor, that doesn't necessarily reflect the curriculum for the class. If it's taught on a high school level, it will be evaluated as a high school course, albeit probably a rigorous one. </p>
<p>The reason APs are counted so heavily is that colleges know what APs are, and at least at what level they're supposed to be taught. Anything else is a crapshoot.</p>
<p>I responded to sfgiants.
The difficulty of organic chemistry mainly depends on the teaching style of the prof, more than for any other class I have taken so far.</p>
<p>Maybe if you got the prof. to write you a recommendation?</p>
<p>"But even if it is taught by a professor, that doesn't necessarily reflect the curriculum for the class. If it's taught on a high school level, it will be evaluated as a high school course, albeit probably a rigorous one. "</p>
<p>Yeah, exactly. I have several teachers that are also college professors at local universities.. I thought this was rather common?</p>
<p>The course is taught with the same rigor as it normally would be in college, upon the insistence on our school. No exceptions or "dumbing down".</p>
<p>case in point: average grade is around a 60% in the class</p>
<p>That's something that your guidance counselor should address in his/her recommendation & school report.</p>
<p>AP's are not over rated they are intense classes that deserve serious recognition.</p>
<p>I have one AP class and it is one of the easier ones...</p>
<p>Actually it'll depend almost entirely on what grade you get in the class. If you can scrape like a B+ish grade in organic chem at the university level, well I'm pretty sure that's blue-ribbon worthy. If you get a C...I dunno. You could audit the class, and if you do well, boast about it, and if you sucked at it, then just hide it underneath the carpet, so to speak.</p>
<p>I took Organic 2 directly (organic 1 wasn't being offered during summer) after I graduated high school, at the University of Central Florida, but convinced them to let me audit the class. Which was great, because I ended up with a C in the class which would have messed up my GPA quite a bit.</p>
<p>Anyway, an A in respectable class will trump a C in a more respectable class, any day. </p>
<p>Or, so I think.</p>