Rigor of senior year

Applying to College
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<p>Just how important is your senior year schedule? Do colleges really check exactly how many AP classes your school offers and how many you took?</p>

<p>I have taken the hardest classes available freshman-junior year and maintained a 4.0. I have 3 AP (Physics C, Calc, CompSci) classes so far and plan to take 2 more senior year (Chem, German) but my schedule still won't be all that tough. My school offers AP English, AP Bio, and AP Euro, all of which I am opting to not take/won't all fit in my schedule.</p>

<p>Will this hurt me alot?</p>

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<p>junior year is the most important</p>

<p>dont let anyone tell you different</p>

<p>but senior year is the second most important</p>

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<p>There is no universal answer to this, it all depends on the school you’re talking about. Super selective reach? Match? State safety?</p>

<p>p.s., I agree with Tzar on the importance of jr and sr yrs.</p>

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<p>My reach schools are UPenn Wharton Princeton Engineering. Do they look very closely at your senior year schedule in context with what is offered at your school?</p>

<p>My safety is Purdue and other match/reach schools I’m applying to are Notre Dame, Berkeley, UT Austin, UNC, UVA, and Cornell all in business.</p>

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<p>UPenn Wharton and Princeton Engineering are among the “most selective” category, they have an overabundance of highly qualified applicants that you will be competing against–yes, they will be looking at your sr year schedule in context to what is offered at your school. Will taking more APs make you more competitive? YES. Does that mean if you don’t take them you’ll be denied and if you take them you’ll get in? NO. The difficulty of your HS class schedule is ONE of several factors they will consider when looking at your application.</p>

<p>I’m guessing that you may be OK for Purdue, ND and UT, but the rest are tougher, particularly if you’re OOS.</p>