I’m a junior but I’m sure I’ve had this for my entire high school career.
Should I just pick easy classes and like 2 APs for senior year?
Is it as bad as I’ve heard it is?
If you’re going to apply for early acceptance/early decision you could risk it a lot more with easier classes
Otherwise it depends on how well you think you’ll do and where you’re applying
I’m a freshman, so don’t trust me too much. I asked both my parents, Ohio State graduates, if taking a easy senior schedule is fine. They said not to take the easy way out, but don’t overwhelm yourself with classes. But I dont know. If you get accepted to your dream (besides ivy and colleges with rates of <20%) I don’t know why you would go hard, besides to get some college credits.
I think your senior year is the best time to take a lot of hard classes because colleges won’t see all your senior-year grades until after you’re admitted, but that’s just me. An excessively easy schedule could also bore you and make the laziness worse.
Colleges will see your senior year schedule because you report it to them on the common app. My GC advised not to take an easy schedule because it is the last year you can really show colleges you are challenging yourself and ready for the college workload. Of course, everyone feels senioritis in some way or the other, but you’ll find that there will be plenty of people keeping up with their grades and work as well. For me, I found it much easier to focus on school without the added pressure and could learn for the sake of learning, not to meet some expecations
Hmm well that’s what I did (2 APs and 1 honors). This leaves the second half of the school day for me to walk around the school trolling others, going home, or basically doing whatever. Pretty nice.