Hello everyone,
My school year is coming to an end soon and I am trying to choose courses for next year. I am aiming for selective schools such as Yale, Georgetown, Cornell, and UMich. I am not sure if my 11th-grade courses are good enough. I tried to go for APUSH but due to capacity the school will not allow me. Do I drop history and take it next year and take AP Economics. Any help is good. Thank you!
AP Psychology
AP Physics 1
Pre Calc Honors and Trig
US History honors
english 3 honors
Advanced French 4 Honors
Will your counselor mark that you chose the “most demanding” courses and that you are “one of the top few (top 1%)” of students encountered, and will other options that you may choose affect whether s/he does?
I think this is a fine schedule. My only question is did you have an AP english lit option?
It’s not a race to see how many AP courses you can fit in. You are hitting your core subjects which is the most important thing.
Yes I had AP English, but they won’t let me because of the grade I received A-
To be honest I’m not sure. I don’t think I’m in the top 1% tho
It sounds like you are taking the most rigorous schedule that your school will allow based on your grades. It’s out of your hands now. Rock the courses you are taking, try to get into a few more APs next year (senior courses and grades do matter), prepare well for your standardized tests, and then create a well balanced college list. The schools you listed are reaches for everyone. You’ll need to find matches and safeties you love too.
Thank you!!! Do you think dropping history and takin AP Economics is a good idea?
That’s a question for your guidance counselor. At my D’s school Econ wouldn’t have fulfilled her history requirement for graduation. Would you plan be to take AP Econ this year and then APUSH next year?
Yes that is currently my plan.
Talk to your guidance counselor to see if that’s OK at your school. What would the rest of your schedule look like senior year?
Ok I will. I would then take
AB AP Calculus
English 4 AP
French 4 AP
AP Chem
APUSH
I’m not sure if my science would be AP for now though.
I also don’t know if there’s an expected number of aps and honors for elite colleges
That’s a big jump in number of AP classes! See how you do this year and then decide with your GC together what makes the most sense for senior year.
I do think if you can take AP econ this year, that might be helpful.
Generally speaking you don’t need more than 6-8 AP courses to be competitive but it does depend on what your school offers and how your GC would rank your rigor in comparison to others at your school.