Does my Senior Schedule look good to hopefully get into Texas A&M?
English 4 Dual Credit
AP Statistics
Pre-Cal Honors
Earth Space & Science
Economics/Government Dual Credit
Sociology/ AP Psychology
Engineering Design and Presentation
Hoping to Major in Psychology or Architecture by the way
It looks pretty good! What was your junior year’s schedule because that year should look the most aggressive.
Not so good unfortunately …
Cross Country
AP Physics
U.S History Dual Credit
Art 1
English 3 Dual Credit
Concepts of Eng Arch Tech
Adv Quant Reasoning (Regret not doing Pre-Cal this year)
In this case, I think you should take more APs to boost your chances. However, don’t overdo it though. What do you want your future career to be?
Looking to be an Psychologist or Architect
Does your school offer Engineering Design and Presentation and Economics/Government Dual Credit as AP courses? Also, can you take AP Lang or Lit? I would recommend 1 or 2 more AP classes.
Ignore Annii. She doesn’t know about Dual Enrollment and she is on an AP high. AP Engineering Design? That doesn’t even exist. You don’t need AP Lang or Lit. Or 1-2 more APs. It’s Texas A&M. Not Harvard. Your schedule is fine.
@CaliCash I heard from many colleges that they definitely want to see AP Lit or Lang being taken in high school. The acceptance rate for Texas A and M is pretty high but that doesn’t mean you should not push yourself. I know students who have taken only 1 or 2 APs throughout their whole high school years and didn’t even get into the colleges that had high acceptance rates. Maybe my expectations are high, but idk, as years progress, competition is increasing dramatically. In the end, it’s up to you to decide which courses you want to enroll in.
@AnniiT Perhaps you don’t know what dual credit is. Dual credit courses are college-level courses, i.e. equivalent to AP or higher. Your comment about taking AP is irrelevant because this schedule already contains college-level courses. There is no rule that says a given course must be AP; they want to see you challenged yourself appropriately, whether that be dual enrollment/credit, AP, IB, or some other course level.
@guineagirl96 Facts lol.
@guineagirl96 I have heard of dual credit courses at my school but not much about them so thanks for the information. Plus, I never said that the courses must be AP, but that’s what most colleges mean when they say that they want to see that you challenged yourself (taking high level courses). At my school, all the upperclassmen have told me to take certain APs because it looks really good on your part but everyone has their own opinions.
Wrong again.
Just leave it alone lol.
Colleges usually lump AP, Dual Enrollment, and honors classes together. They’re all advanced classes. Colleges don’t single out AP classes, especially since they know that AP classes are not available at all schools.
This whole thing should be dropped. Yes, it’s good to challenge yourself, of course, why wouldn’t you? But colleges do look at what your school offers, etc. There is an AP and Dual Credit so I think the schedule looks fine. The school being looked into has a fairly high acceptance rate, plus colleges can base things off grades and be understanding. If you’re a high C average student they probably wouldn’t expect a full schedule of Dual Credit/AP courses. A student with a straight A average may be expected to add a few extra college level courses, gauged on what is offered at his or her school, as well taking into account outside of school activities. I think the schedule looks fine.
Thanks for the feedback everyone and there is no need for anyone to debate about this lol
@Aniit Shot in the dark but are you from my honors geometry class?
Can you take a AP Art history or AP 2D Visual Arts/photography or a DE class involving urban issues/urbanism/cities?
In addition, you have to look at other colleges than TAMU, especially for architecture (note that it’s currently the major with the lowest salary prospects so look for colleges with full tuition scholarships, be they Ole Miss or UAlabama or Texas Tech…)
For TAMU, you have to be top 10% in your HS to have a good shot at having your major, and if you’re outside top 20% forget it.
Check out UT Dallas, Austin College, Southwestern, TCU, Hendrix: which do you like, which do you dislike? Why?
@BerkleyGG I highly doubt it because I took geometry honors in middle school lol.
I like the Odesza profile…
I think your schedule is fine for TAMU
I have been looking at Texas Tech, does Texas Tech give lots of full tuition scholarships to students?
Thanks ! @TheAtlantic