Hi, I’m making my schedule for senior year and have a bit of a problem. I took AP lit in 10th grade, then dual enrolled last year for one semester at a local college. This year, dual enrollment would be difficult to fit in my schedule. Would it look bad to colleges, and could it be harmful to myself, if I don’t take English this year?
Thank you
I have a similar problem with math and I’m not planning to take any math at a university senior year, but I am planning to do AP comp sci or AP stats. So I don’t think it would look bad because you are already an overachiever but maybe if you have space in your schedule and you want to go into the humanities, you should take some sort of English elective(if your school offers any).
AP stats is math.
Op, could you take English 12?
More to the point, would you meet HS graduation requirements? Many require English every year regardless of credits earned.
OP - You could take an English Composition course. This addresses skieurope’s point. Schedule problems wouldn’t allow my son to take an AP Eng Lit senior year - so he took the composition. Guidance Counselor wrote note pointing out the schedule problem. Must have worked - he got into NU ED. Good Luck!
Can you take regular English, AP Lang or any other class that fulfills English requirements?
If you really can’t take any English classes, then have the counselor write it in his/her rec to state that you did not have the opportunity and colleges will understand.
But, I agree with @skieurope it is more about you graduating high school than about fulfilling a college’s course requirements.
I did a program where I took 9th grade English in 7th, honors 10 in 8th, and so on. So I have all the credits. I’m just worried that I get to college and I’ve “forgotten” how to write an English paper. Thanks for the responses!