Both are electives at my school. Nutrition & Wellness is cooking class but will colleges know that? I got a B+ sophomore year in Health so I kind of want to make up for it if colleges don’t know that Nutrition and Wellness is cooking class. When I first look at the course description for the class I thought it was an advanced health class but it was actually cooking class…
Though sociology class sounds more of an hard academic elective even though it really isn’t at my school
Senior Year:
Fall
AP Physics B
AP Lit and Composition
Spanish 3
AP Government
Environmental Science
Calc 1 (Dual-enrollment course that I take at a local college)
Spring
AP Physics B
AP Lit and Composition
Spanish 3
Sociology or Nutrition & Wellness???
Environmental Science
Calc 2 (Dual-enrollment course that I take at a local college)
Ask your GC if there is they feel there is a difference in difficulty level that may be reflected in their rating of your schedule. If not take the one that sounds like more fun. Personally I think everyone should know the basics of cooking.
I already did ask my GC and she said she doesn’t care she will check most rigorous since I already have taken every AP course and honors course offered at my school.
On my transcript it won’t say cooking, it will say Nutrition & Wellness. Do colleges know this is cooking class because heck I didn’t. Of course cooking sounds funner than sociology class but it sounds less rigorous if they know it is a cooking class. I heard from my friends that they are both easy classes anyways.
What’s so wrong about a cooking class? I mean, yeah, it’s not a hyper-academic subject, but it’s a useful life skill (that may teach you a bit of applied chemistry along the way, but that’s just a minor fringe benefit).
Seriously, don’t freak out about your elective classes. Neither you nor anyone else needs to obsess over that level of detail—it makes no difference.
(And there’s a useful life lesson for you—it can be okay to do something for fun.)
I could always learn how to cook using the internet right and take lessons from my mom.
I know I shouldn’t care but I can’t decide what to pick. Sure cooking SOUNDS funner but I heard the sociology teacher is the really cool and makes the class really fun. so I am having a really hard time choosing. So am basing my decision on which class looks better since I can not decide.
If I had it my way I would take PE but I took 3 years of PE already and I head it looks bad since it is such an easy A as long as you just come dressed.
There is nothing wrong with taking another year of PE if that’s what you’d prefer to do. Don’t make this harder than it really is. Take what you want. You’re already getting top billing on the course rigor.
You see my school only requires 2 semesters of PE and I already took 5 semesters(3 junior year) since they were so easy and I needed a way to get in shape fast for the track season. I heard on the internet that you shouldn’t pass the amount of PE required and I already did.
Another semester of PE would be kind of pushing it in terms of rigor won’t it?
If the most rigorous box is checked either way then it makes no difference at all what you take in that spot. I don’t think taking PE would hurt you either. Many high schools require 4 years of PE so it would not be unusual.
And 4 years of PE shows dedication to physical health.
Seriously, you’re overthinking this. You shouldn’t make choices based so entirely on whether it “looks good” or not. In fact, doing so, if it gets noticed as such, can look bad.
Once you’ve taken care of what you need to take care of, do what you want.
I was just kind of making an example when I said PE, I have taken all 5 different PE classes. If I take PE again it will be the same axt PE class I took last year(strength training). A lot of people at my school do this but it won’t count into GPA and you won’t get a credit for it, but it will show up on the transcript. However since it’s 2nd semester senior year, it doesn’t really matter since I already applied to colleges. I do though plan on transferring if I don’t get accepted into my dream school so it might matter then?
So does it matter then?
Do colleges actually know Nutrition & Wellness is cooking class or do they think it is an advanced health class or something?
Nobody knows if they’ll know what nutrition and wellness is. Regardless, it doesn’t matter. You are spending too much time worrying about one class that won’t make any difference at all.
@hsseniior2, it’s starting to sound like you’re being annoyed that we’re not giving you the answer you want. So: What answer do you want? Pretend we all gave it, and then go with that.
Seriously, like I and others have been saying on this thread, you’re overthinking this. Please stop stressing about it.
My daughter, who is at an Ivy League school, took an elective called Culinary Arts. Needless to say, it did not kill her chances of admission. To echo others here, you are overthinking it.