<p>I am a Junior this year and my counselor is currently having me pick my senior classes. This year, I am taking:
Physics
AP Stats
AP Chem
Honors Acc. Precal
AP U.S History
AP English Lang</p>
<p>Next year I am looking to have a semi-rigorous schedule, and I was wondering how this would look to colleges such as Emory, Georgia Tech, and other top 30 schools? Classes will be:</p>
<p>AP Biology(not a great teacher and gives no hw but tests are really difficult)
College English(dual enrollment with cc)
Teachers Intern
AP Economics(micro + macro year long)
Accounting 1 (dual enrollment with cc)
AP Calc AB</p>
<p>I know this is relative, but how difficult does this schedule look, and how can it help or hurt my admission chances for tough colleges to get in to?</p>
<p>I mean its hard to say what is rigorous enough. Is that as much as you can manage while still making majority As and excelling? If so then yes. At top 30 schools everyone has had a rigorous schedule. But if it makes you feel any better I just got into the University of Chicago (tied for 4 according to US News) with only 2 APs. But that is because my school only offers APs to seniors and limits them to three, and all of the colleges that I applied to took that into account because your school send them a profile of your HS when you apply. But this isn’t about me. Like I said colleges want to see you challenging yourself which it seems like you have done. But at the level you’re aiming for everyone is challenging themselves This schedule will make you competitive if you can manage it. But you also need the SAT/ACT scores, amazing essays, ECs etc. if you really want to make it into the top 30 schools. Good luck! You seem like a bright and talented person who has a good shot of ending up wherever you want provided the grades in those classes are good</p>
<p>D is taking AP Calc BC, AP Stats, AP Physics, AP Gov, AP Lit, Symphony. She wanted to drop the Stats for independent study but upon reflection thought better of it. In looking at your proposed senior year It looks solid enough. As noted above, prepare for and excel on standardized tests and write strong essays. The most recent significant datapoint you will have for RD admissions will be your transcript particularly last few semesters. And for this year’s AP classes get 5s on your exams</p>
<p>You will be evaluated in the context of your school, so it is almost irrelevant how others (outside your school) evaluate your schedule. For what its worth, you’re taking all classes AP level or above, which is always a positive, however, I’d be wondering where your foreign language went? Also, you should know that the person who is able to tell the colleges most about your course rigor is your guidance counselor through the school report of what’s offered and them checking the “most rigorous” box among their opinion of how you have done in comparison to the rest of the school</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the advice, it definetley makes me feel more confident on my decision. Also, this is somewhat off topic, but do you know, from an admissions standpoint, how dual enrollment classes match up against ap classes? Does the college at which you took the classes play a role?</p>
<p>I believe they are weighted the same. Don’t quote me on this, but I think I remember reading somewhere that they prefer them to be related to what you want to do or fulfilling one of the core classes (english, math, science, social studies, foreign language) over more elective courses. Although, as in the case of my friend, he exhausted all the math classes my school had to offer, so he enrolled in a CC for multivariable and other classes “for fun”</p>