Hello! I’m a senior, and I’m a little worried about how my class schedule is going to factor into college admissions. I’m not an IB diploma candidate, but I’m taking 6 IB classes (HL history, English, and bio, SL anthro, math studies, and environmental science) and my seventh and eighth are advanced band and jazz band. I decided to drop my language last year, since I already had 4 French credits, and the French program at my high school is overcrowded and unproductive, and since I wasn’t learning anything, I decided to forgo the fifth year to take anthro, which I was actually interested in. I also took environmental science instead of physics. How detrimental are those two absences going to be for college?
Not particularly problematic IMO. The physics decision may have an effect. Check your schools to see if they expect physics.
Guessing you’re applying for Humanities/Social science, so it’ll be ok. Some schools will expect Physics but your saving grace is that the IB program is considered very rigorous and they know you can’t take all sciences the way students in an AP curriculum can.
You have math, science, english, social studies. Some of those you are taking at an advanced level. You have finished to level 4 of a Foreign language. This is all good.
It would be good to have taken Bio, Physics and Chem in HS. If you have not taken physics can you take that instead of bio?
@bopper nope- IB HL II Bio is a 2-year class, and I’m already taking an extra one as is.