<p>I'm a junior in high school, starting to think about my schedule for next year.
At the moment I'm taking:
AP English
AP US History
And: (2 being a class at an average level of difficulty, 3 being honors, and 4 being double honors, in my school)
Level 4 German
Level 4 Geoscience
Level 4 Art History
Level 2 Plane Geometry</p>
<p>I realize that I have very weak math classes, and since I lived abroad in Berlin as an exchange student for my entire Sophomore year, that's not exactly adding very much to my math and science part of my transcript. Of course, as much as I'd like to go to most selective college that I can, I know that I'll have a more "offbeat" application (in both the negative and positive sense), and that probably cuts me off from Ivy-league caliber schools. </p>
<p>So my point is, since I'm probably not getting into Yale anyway, but I don't want to completely cut myself off from the fantasy, is it better for me to focus my next year on trying to put in the hardest math and science classes I can handle, in an effort to make my application seem more academically well rounded, or to take the classes I know I excel at? This is the schedule I'm currently planning on taking, sans math class, the ideal one for me.</p>
<p>AP Art
AP Biology
AP Great Books
AP Literature and Composition
AP Psychology
AP European History
AP German</p>
<p>Is it college admissions suicide to only have completed up to Algebra II, or even Plane Geometry (which might happen if I can't get my summer school schedule straightened out) as your high school math courses, in favor of taking the most challenging classes you're interested in?</p>
<p>I feel as if I'm already screwed in terms of the math and science classes I took in high school (most of the people in my AP classes this year are in AP Calculus BC), and so I might as well take the classes that I actually excel at. </p>
<p>I'm thinking of applying to McGill, NYU, Hunter College in NYC, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Wagner College. Do I have a shot at any of these, especially NYU and McGill? Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.</p>