<p>Hey, this is my first time posting on here. After my freshman year at a public school in Nebraska, I moved to Pennsylvania because of my parents' jobs. There, I started at a college prep school. It is way tougher than my other school, I somehow got a 3.26 GPA both my soph and junior year. I hoped I would have taken tougher classes at my current school (i'm currently a rising senior), but the course requirements are different at my current school. For example, for science classes, I took physical science my freshman year, but my current school does not accept that class. Instead, my current school requires biology (typically in 9th grade), and then chemistry. For history, I took geography my freshman year (i honestly forgot everything I ever learned in that class), but my current school doesnt accept geography. Instead they require World Civilizations (typically in 9th grade), and then US history. So I had to take Biology and World Civ my sophmore year, and Chemistry and Us History my junior year. And I had to take 5 required concomitant classes (2 of which I already did at my old school, but for whatever reason they weren't counted). So I'm kind of behind the rest of my class. I'll only be taking one AP my senior year (AP Gov). Oh, and for my math classes, I messed around in 8th grade Algebra so I had to retake it my freshman year. Which was very stupid on my part because I got a 98% average in it my freshman year. So I took geometry my sophomore year and A-II my Junior year. So i'm taking precalc my senior year. I'm trying to get into Boston university, Penn State and Rutgers. Will they recognize my school transfer as a reason I didn't take harder classes?</p>
<p>You can explain in the “additional info” section of your application that the courses you took at your first highschool did not qualify for the new school’s curriculum, and it set you back a year. Your counselor can explain this as well, if you ask him/her to in the report she submits-- this is usually a better way to go about it.</p>
<p>A 3.26 without a rigorous course load will make it difficult to get into schools like Boston, Penn State, and Rutgers (unless your school ranks and you have a high class rank).</p>