Hi! So I’m really aiming to go to colleges such as Duke, UVA, Dartmouth and others to majors in environmental engineering.
I’m currently a junior with this schedule:
AP English Lang
AP World History
AP Environmental Science
AP Chemistry
Anatomy and Physiology
Honors Precalculus
Latin 1 (already took 4 years of Spanish btw)
Since I’m homeschooled, I really want to go to community college next year to take some courses.
Possible schedule for senior year:
DE Biology
DE Literature
DE Computer Science
AP Physics 1
Engineering
AP Calc AB
History of Asia and the Middle East
Will it look okay in my application to start taking community college courses during my senior year and not take as many APs as I am taking right now?
TIA
Dual enrollment classes are as rigorous as AP classes since they’re faster paced and they require more autonomy. And the best indication you’ll do well in college is (surprise!) Is doing well in college through dual enrollment. So it’ll be a positive if you get an A, and a negative if you get a C. …
Latin 1 looks like a throw away class- why don’t you take AP Spanish or dual enrollment Spanish 4/202) (College Spanish 4= AP Spanish)? Colleges want to see the highest proficiency you can reach.
AP Bio might be safer than DE Bio since the DE class is likely to be weedout.
For English, what about DE composition and DE Philosophy or Comp Lit?
Dual enrollment is becoming more common and colleges are pretty familiar with it now and plenty of kids get into good colleges with lots of dual enrollment classes so I doubt it will hurt you in admissions. However if your thinking about the classes counting towards college classes that is very school specific.
I would recommend DE College Writing / expository writing over Literature because more colleges require that for general education requirements. At our high school philosophy would not fulfill an English requirement for high school graduation so I would check with a few colleges your interested in to see how they view it.
