<p>In my freshman year we were not allowed to take any weighted courses. In my sophomore year, I took two weighted classes, comprised of one AP and one certified honors, with 5 other classes. In my junior year, I took 5 weighted classes, with 2 other classes. </p>
<p>The problem is in my junior year, I took 3 AP and two honors, instead of the 4 AP and one honors I had signed up for. My school cancelled AP Physics in the beginning of the year, so I was forced to take Honors Physics, which was essentially the same class, without the basic calculus to make it AP. </p>
<p>In my senior year, I am trying to make up for what places like UCLA and UC Berkeley might perceive as slacking off (which it wasn't; teachers construct honors courses the same as APs at our school. I had an easier time in APUSH than in Honors Physics), by taking 5 APs and 2 other classes. </p>
<p>So do you think I can salvage my perceived course rigor by my senior load? My schedule prior was basically just as hard as people who took 4-5 APs junior year, since things like APES and AP Psych at my school are jokes compared to Honors Precalc and Honors Physics at my school. I'm just worried top UCs won't quite see it that way....</p>
<p>Plus I'm taking a UC transferable community college course this summer, which will be weighted and factored into the GPA as if an AP/honors.</p>
<p>You aren’t going to get rejected from either UCLA or UCB because you took honors physics instead of another AP.</p>
<p>You just won’t. They won’t in the very least even look down on your for it</p>
<p>You took 3 APs your junior year. That is not bad in the slightest.</p>
<p>Also, colleges will know what courses were available to you. If you had no AP’s to take, that would be fine. They want you to take the most difficult courses that are offered. It’s not your fault a class isn’t available.</p>
<p>Right, but this is my real worry:</p>
<p>What if they view me taking Honors Physics as opposed to say, AP Psych as slacking? Again, for my school, it isn’t slacking since AP Psych is an easy to most people, while Honors Physics is a bit of a challenge. Additionally, I have a strong natural inclination towards sciences anyway, and APES was impossible due to scheduling.</p>
<p>A lot of people go the easy route at my school by taking AP Psych in lieu of additional science (I took AP Chem as well), so they have 4-5 APs junior year, basically padding their apps.</p>
<p>So basically, I’m worried that my school administration’s antics, along with how my classes are named will lead to rejections from places like top UCs…it wouldn’t be good if I maintained As in all of my classes to let something like this get me rejected…</p>
<p>You’re overthinking it.
You can’t go back and change anything, why worry about it now?
Besides, that is an intense schedule…don’t worry.</p>
<p>They won’t view Honors Physics as slacking. Seriously.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how you are freaking out so much about this.</p>