<p>I am planning my senior year schedule and this is what I have so far:</p>
<p>High School:
AP Eng Lit
Technical Theater
Science and Society
Econ then Biotech (semester classes)
Neuroscience
Maybe AP stats</p>
<p>Local College (Fall Quarter):
Honors Multivariable Calculus
Physics - Mechanics for Physics majors
OChem I</p>
<p>Two questions:
1) Will colleges care that almost all of my classes at high school will be electives?
2) Will not taking more humanities classes hurt me?</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank so the non weighted classes shouldn't matter. :D</p>
<p>So come fall semester you’re planning to take 6 courses at your high school, and 3 at your local college? If so, this doesn’t seem like a particularly well balanced schedule. It seems to be excessive academically. Also some of the high school courses seem “soft”. </p>
<p>The courses that you are proposing to take at your local college are unlikely to be anywhere as rigorous as the equivalent courses at a school like MIT, and it’s unlikely that you’ll want to place out of equivalent sounding courses at a top engineering program.</p>
<p>My opinion is that you would do better by taking additional core courses in high school, and possibly dropping the college courses altogether. Of your high school courses, AP English Lit, and AP Statistics are good choices. The Econ course may be a good choice. If your high school offers AP Physics, and you haven’t yet taken it, then that would be a good choice. I’m not sure what you’ve done language wise, but if you haven’t taken the highest level language course, that would round out a solid curriculum. An additional course in history, especially one that covers a part of the world, and one in which a great deal of writing and analysis is required would be a good choice.</p>
<p>And if you still have a yearning for more coursework, consider independent study. Pick a field/topic in which you have a deep interest/passion and do something special. Pursue a summer position in a lab at a local college. It doesn’t matter whether the work is challenging – but that it requires commitment, and demonstrates responsibility. Perhaps, if you’re lucky you can continue that in your fall semester.</p>