<p>Hello if one can join an advanced class (it is not officially known as honors but is recognized as advanced with 1 extra GPA point) and get a B, or stay in a non-advanced class and get an A, what option would increase chances of being accepted into a top college?</p>
<p>the advanced class.</p>
<p>Colleges want you to do well in advanced classes. In your case, getting the lower grade in an advanced class is better.</p>
<p>Most of the time my counselors tell me to take as many advanced classes as I can, even if I only manage B’s, since rigor is important.</p>
<p>Definitely go for course rigor.</p>
<p>Would this be true even if it were one particular course I am concerned about? All my other courses are advanced so considering that piece of information would it hurt the evaluation of rigor if I took one non-advanced course? Would the B hurt more (so far I have straight As in the other advanced classes for this year)?</p>
<p>The advance class, it doesn’t look good to have all advance classes, and then have a single non-advance class.</p>
<p>Advanced for sure. I took AP physics instead I honors and got a B and I think it really helped my applications.</p>
<p>Colleges like to see that you take every advantage of the environment and resources you have more than they like to see you be 100% perfect in everything. I’d go with the advanced class unless you were verging on a C.</p>
<p>If you mean that you have 6 advanced classes and have one extra class where you’d like to take something non-advanced just so you can sleep more than 5 hours per night or because it’s your passion (band, journalism…), then take the non-advanced class.
One non-advanced class out of a whole schedule of advanced classes is fine.
The situation is different if you have 7 classes, only 3 of which are advanced/honors/AP.</p>
<p>I remember some adcom (Duke I think) said “You need to take the advanced class… and get the A”.</p>
<p>Yeah, someone else answering a similar post made the comment that there are simply so many students with straight As in advanced classes in top universities that either way, non-advanced or B, you are at a considerable disadvantage.</p>
<p>Just go for the advanced class and apply yourself as hard as you can. They don’t want you to settle for less.</p>
<p>mix it up with APs and regulars and try to get a 3.5 :)</p>