Current junior targeting highly selective schools. Any opinions on my high school courseload?
Freshman -honors and mandatory classes(school doesn’t allow AP first year)
Sophmore- AP World, AP Gov, Honors Spanish 3, other honors classes
Junior- AP Calc AB and BC, APES, APUSH, AP English
I decided that I would take classes at a local CC for senior year. Here are those classes:
Stats, Microecon, Macroecon, English
In addition, I plan on taking AP Computer Science Principles online (Any feedback about this course?)
I only have 5 classes and I am taking a free block the whole year. I plan on using the extra time to focus on college apps, my ECs and get a job.
Specifically, I am wondering if classes at CC are looked at similarly to AP classes in terms of rigor. I plan on majoring in econ and maybe CS so I want to get a foundation before college. Also, how hard will this load be? I assume the classes will be more rigorous than high school.
Yes, classes at cc are seen as equally challenging. Even though the content may be lighter, it will be twice as fast paced and you will need a lot more autonomy in preparing and mastering the content.
However, these classes are only semester-long. What will you take in the spring?
@MYOS1634 These are all my classes for the year. 2 CC classes each semester and one year long AP CS class. So I would have a free 4th block the whole year. Still contemplating if I should take another class for spring semester.
I definitely think you should have one more cc class each semester. These meet either MWF or TTH so it wouldn’t take so much time that you wouldn’t be able to do a good job on applications, and colleges will frown on such light schedule. In particular, I would recommend you take a semester of foreign language unless you already got an AP and a semester of a class not found in high school (anthropology, criminology…)
I’m confused- are you only taking those four courses at CC and then that one AP online course?? What about courses at your school??
@ddeebaa As of right now, yes. I’ve already fulfilled the requirements for graduation so I do not see a reason to take classes at school. Taking electives would be my only option there. It’s too late to add a class to the fall semester but I might add 1-2 more courses for the spring semester at CC.
If the college offers calculus based statistics, that may be preferable since you have had calculus.
If your goal is a four-year college, you’ll be at a severe disadvantage if you only take those classes. In this set up, you’re expected to take at least 3 community college classes (if seen as ‘block schedule’). Go see your guidance counselor and ask to add one cc class, or switch some of your approved spring classes To the Fall and take new ones in the spring.