Hi there, I’m gonna be a sophomore in August and I was wondering if this schedule is starting to look a bit rigorous or non-rigorous at all. I’m using this as a way to improve my rigor-level for junior year and my top choice as of right now is UCLA and I was wondering if its up to par?
Honors English 10
Honors World History
Spanish 3
Physical Education 2
Teen Health
Biology (non-honors or honors not sure yet but i requested it, i didn’t take freshman year because my counselor put me in this integrated science course)
Geometry
Extracurriculars (2015-2016): Mock Trial, Key Club and Leadership
I plan to take some AP’s junior year such as: AP English Language and AP US History. My school has 16 APs offered so I’m trying to get my GPA up to a 3.8 or possibly a 4.0. (3.63 looks bad)
To be honest, it does not look that rigorous to me.
I’m a rising sophomore and most of my class who will be aiming at colleges whose acceptance rate is around 30-20% will take
Honors English
AP World History
Honors Spanish or French 3
Honors Pre Calc
2 regular electives
Honors chemistry
Honors physics
Those who are looking to be in more competitive colleges than that will take
Honors English
AP World History
Honors Spanish or French 3
Honors Pre Calc
Honors data analysis
1 regular elective
Honors chemistry
AP Physics
Your extracurriculars look great!
If you’re aiming for a school like UCLA, then no your schedule isn’t rigorous. If you want to be rigorous switch from honors to AP World since most competitive sophomores at my school take that. Also I don’t know about your school but at mine we have honors and then GT and then AP. So basically GT is more advanced than honors but not as high as AP. Does you school have anything like that in between honors and AP? If so, you should try to get into those classes to improve your chances. Believe it or not, UCLA is one of the hardest schools to get into recieved those most applications in the US. So to at least improve your chances a little bit you should go to AP World.
@Madeline25: My school isn’t like a school filled with like competitive people. There are some, it’s a public school not a private. I didn’t have a chance to get ahead to a math course so I joined this program and I want to take Geometry for credit (but couldn’t let me)
@ud0212 I live in California and at my school AP classes (and beginning this upcoming school year, the IB Diploma Programme will be offered at my school) but however my school does not offer AP World History so I can’t do anything about it.
I go to a public schools too, just an (overly) competitive one lol. In that case, it is fine. Colleges won’t fault you if your school doesn’t offer some of the classes, as long as you take the most rigorous schedule offered. Don’t stress and just make the best grades you can!