senior year.. drop honors pre calc?

Applying to College
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<p>Last year my teacher Algebra 2 was pregnant and the curriculum was horribly messed up because we had 5 different substitutes who didnt know what the other had taught us. We missed out on a lot of information. Its the 5th day of school and everyone but me and the kids who were in my Algebra 2 class understands whats going on in terms of the "review" sheets. Also the teacher teaches super fast - I cant take notes and listen at the same time - how can i fix that?</p>

<p>heres my schedule right now:
Computer lit requirement
Honors Physics
Study hall
Chamber Singers
Honors English
Honors Pre calc
Gym
AP European history</p>

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In 9th, 10th, and 11th grade combined i only took 2 honors classes and no AP. </p>

<p>I'm concerned if I drop Honors Pre Calc itll kill my chances at some colleges and ill end up in a class to easy for me... What should I do?</p>

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<p>What would you take instead? You have to decide how bad you want this…</p>

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<p>The answer depends on where you’re planning to apply and the course that you’ll take instead of Honor Pre-calculus. If you have selective colleges in mind, and possibly even your state flagship your current schedule would not be considered “most rigorous”, and if you were to drop honors pre-calc for a lesser math course then it would be still weaker.</p>

<p>In any case if you were to drop honors pre-calc replace it with a math course, otherwise you may fall below the math requirements for many colleges.</p>

<p>Better I think is for you to stay in the course. Focus on making up lost group in Algebra with review and lots and lots of exercises. There are many prep guides that would help. Also consider getting some tutoring. It’s always difficult to make up for gaps in math, and it appears you have one. You may find that the gap is also exposed in the non-honors course.</p>

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<p>I would take regular Pre calc instead.</p>

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<p>By state flagship do you mean the best state school in my state? I’m in Connecticut, so that would be University of Connecticut?</p>

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<p>^^
Yes, that would be UConn Storrs.</p>

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<p>thank you im going to try and have a meeting with my mom and my counselor, and my math teacher</p>

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<p>Curious what they say: From my knowledge of college admissions, if you are applying to schools below the top 20 or so schools, they are more concerned that you took pre-calc v whether or not you took it at the honors level…</p>

<p>top 20, diff story…for them, curriculum is prob not rigorous enough even with the honors pre-calc…</p>