<p>On the other hand, if your school only offers a few honors or AP classes, colleges won’t penalize you if that’s all you have taken. </p>
<p>If you go to a school like Brophy that offers dozens of such courses and you’ve only taken a few of them, you could be viewed as a “slacker” by some of the most competitive colleges and the GC will certainly not check off “taken most rigorous course load possible.”</p>