<p>when most colleges just look at sophmore and junior year as they claim?</p>
<p>Taking prerequesites for harder courses, securing a good class rank (if you don't take weighted courses freshman year but expect to take them the other years, you're screwed), and most colleges do look at freshman year. They just don't count it as heavily.</p>
<p>or you could take it easy your freshman year, taking the classes everyone else has and get a 4.0, starting you off with a high GPA. just understand classes get harder sophomore, and especially junior year</p>
<p>In our school, if you don't the High Honors freshman classes, it's almost impossible to get into the AP classes in soph, jr, and sr year. And even if you waived yourself into the hard classes the following years, you wouldn't be used to the workload.</p>
<p>in my school anyone can take AP or honors classes... the only prerequisites for classes are for math... you have to get a C or better in the previous class in the sequence. all other advanced classes are open to anyone who wants to sign up for them.</p>
<p>the workload is something that takes some adjusting to, but at my school most freshman classes are easy for everyone</p>