<p>Many people here say that rigor in classes is like the Key to college admissions.
Will it decide whether i get in to my dream collge or NOT?</p>
<p>My school only offers 4 aps; ap spanish,french, us history, english </p>
<p>In my sophomore year, i took 3 honors classes; 4 regulars
Junior year, 4 honors classes, 1ap, 2 regulars(foreign langauge and religion)
Senior year, 2 honors classes(Math and Science), 5 regular</p>
<p>I want to major in Science so my counselor told me that it wouldnt hurt me although i dont take AP English..and my schedule didnt work for AP english anyway.
would my schedule hurt me alot? if so, by how much? like deciding whether i get accepted or not?</p>
<p>Q1: No. It will not be the sole decision, though it could be a factor.
Q2: Facts against you: you aren’t taking the hardest foreign language track, and you’re not taking AP English
Q3: I have no idea exactly how much this will hurt you. Depending on circumstances, it could be a lot to not much at all.
Will your counselor check the box “most rigorous”? Did you in fact take the maximum number of difficult courses you were able to? Did you excel in them all? (A’s and maybe a few B’s. Though GPA all depends on your school’s context…) If you answered no to any of these questions, your schedule will likely hurt you. However, if you answered no to the question of excelling, then you’ve pushed yourself to your limit (provided you actually DID strive to get the top grade in the class), and adding more difficult classes that you weren’t going to excel in wouldn’t help you.</p>
<p>Then again, I’m assuming your dream school is a university that admits ~10% of applicants. If your dream school is Arizona State, then you can answer no to all of the above questions, and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>If it won’t fit in your schedule anyway, then it probably won’t hurt much. If your counselor still checked most rigorous, it probably doesn’t hurt at all.</p>
<p>It <em>could</em> be a deciding factor, but that’s if you’re extremely close in all other aspects, which is HIGHLY unlikely imo. So I doubt it’d have too much of an effect</p>