<p>Hey guys I was wondering if the fact that I took regular English instead of AP English during my junior would kill my chances. The only reason this occurred was because I had a cap of 4 aps and there is no english honors in my school (-___-) so I was forced to take regular english.. Colleges will know that I had a 4 ap cap, but still I'm looking at HYPSM schools.</p>
<p>Will it kill me or hurt me?</p>
<p>Thanks, upsilon</p>
<p>Assuming that this is a scheduling problem, and that your counselor is aware of it, you won’t be hurt by this. As long as your counselor can check off that you took the most demanding course load available to you, this aspect of your applications won’t be an issue.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Depends on what you took instead. If you took an AP Lite (Stats, psych, enviro, econ, Gov, etc) instead of Lit, then you have taken a weaker schedule (which is generally frowned upon).</p>
<p>checking your other posts: AP Lang/Lit over APES for the Ivies is a no-brainer.</p>
<p>If it’s out of your control, then it won’t be held against you.</p>
<p>@bluebayou Yeah I know that AP English > APES, but the problem is that I was denied AP English because the teacher felt that since I transferred into a new school, I wasn’t up to it (doesnt make sense i know -_-).</p>
<p>Hopefully this doesn’t kill my chances for HYPSM?</p>
<p>No of course it doesn’t, and if you take it next year, that will be fine anyway.</p>
<p>Honestly this is a pretty ridiculous question. Not being able to take a certain class (or god forbid, actually having to take a regular-level and not an honors/AP-level course - the horror!), especially due to something beyond your control, will never “kill” your chances. </p>
<p>Realistically there is VERY little that you can do that will ever “kill” your chances (maybe committing a felony or getting all F’s on a report card?) and it always grinds my gears to hear someone say something like that because the thought that one single goof can blow away 4+ years of hard work is absolutely asinine. Contrary to popular belief, admission officers ARE human and have the capability to understand mistakes.</p>
<p>What’s important is taking the most rigorous schedule that you can handle out of what is available to you. If there is any kind of scheduling conflict that doesn’t allow you to take a certain class, that will not hurt you - because the counselor will still be able to say you took the most rigorous schedule available to you.</p>
<p>So really: just stop worrying about petty things like this and just enjoy your junior year. :)</p>