Should your courses be about quality, not quantity?

Applying to College
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<p>These are the classes I will take by the end of high school:</p>

<p>9th: Journalism I&II
Biology
English
Global History
Spanish II
Algebra I
Art</p>

<p>10th:(college level) Into to Latin
French I
Spanish III
Global History Part II
English 10
Satire Parody and Humor
Earth Science
Geometry</p>

<p>11th: French II&III
Spanish IV
College Italian I&II
AP US History
Honors Chemistry
Algebra II/Trigonometry
College Precalculus
Honors English
Fashion I&Independent Fashion</p>

<p>12th: French IV
College Spanish V
Participating in Government
Economics
Honors Physics
Honors Calculus
College English
(college level) Advanced Latin</p>

<p>Because I took so many classes, but didn't start taking advanced classes until my junior year, will my college application look messy to College Admissions? Or is quantity good, because I had a lot of quality my junior and senior year? In math and science I usually meet a 90% or a little above, in languages I usually get from 97-100%. English is 91-96%, and history courses vary from 90-100%.</p>

<p>What are my prospects to college? I want to get into Hamilton College, Rochester University, Rhode Island School of Design, Hampshire College, and Amherst College. I would like to go to Brown University, but I don't think I could get in.</p>

<p>Opinions? Please? Help?</p>

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<p>It’s all dependent on the context of your school. Does your school offer all honors courses since freshman year? How many AP’s are offered total and when can you begin to take them?</p>

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<p>Oh I forgot one: AP Biology senior year lol</p>

<p>My school offers honors throughout in all subjects, but only 4 AP classes, which you have a choice of taking or college courses on the same subjects, which I did so I could fit everything into my schedule.</p>

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<p>AP isn’t offered until junior year, but only one of them is offered junior year. sorry, my thoughts are spontaneous so I forget things</p>

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<p>If you’ve taken 2 or 3 out of the 4 possible APs and maintain decent grades, schools like Hamilton, Rochester and Hampshire are reasonable. Lack of honors courses in your first two years may hurt, but you’ll be fine if your GC checks off most rigorous course load.</p>

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<p>Awesome. That’s what I thought, I just wasn’t sure if my course load would give me the upper hand.</p>

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<p>Are you a more knowledgeable and wizened person as a result of taking these courses?</p>

<p>Then they do give you an upper hand.</p>

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<p>Yes, I would definitely think myself so. I just thought maybe it’d look messy, you know? Or like I was trying too hard.</p>