Hello, I am currently a sophomore deciding on my courses for my junior year, and I am struggling to decide between two classes I want to take, Architectural Design or Honors Introduction to Engineering. I will be taking 1 AP class and 2 other honors classes next year, so I think the Honors Engineering course would look better for college because of the weight. However, I think architectural design would relate more to my career path because I am interested in architecture and am also considering it as a career. Would colleges frown upon me taking the architectural design because it is not weighted, or would this class be better for my career path rather than honors engineering?
IMO, I think the right college would not frown upon it. I think that taking the architectural design course would actually make you a stronger candidate because it would show them that you are serious about considering it as a career.
I agree - take architectural design if that’s what you’re interested in. I am an architectural engineer, meaning I engineer buildings. I had to take two architectural design classes and did badly in them! Architecture and engineering are VERY different, so you should take the class you’re really interested in.
Either would be a way of helping you determine your interest in the subject. This can help you later in deciding colleges and divisions/majors to apply to.
So choose whichever is more likely to be of interest to you, as a way of confirming your interest (or letting you know that it is less interesting than you initially thought).
Thank you everyone for your insight, I think I am going to take architectural design.
Make sure you are taking math, science, english, social science and foreign language…then make your electives something that you both enjoy and want to explore.