Before I register for my senior year classes, I was wondering if I should take two study hall periods with these classes:
PE
Trig/PreCalc Accel
English AP
German AP
Thanks!
Science? History? Do you have a block schedule or some other special schedule? That looks like 3 substantive courses, which does look light.
Check with your guidance counselor to make sure you are on track to meet your state’s graduation requirements. In terms of college admissions, most reasonably selective schools look for 4 years each of English, History, Science, Math and foreign language. If a student has completed the usual 4 year track in a particular subject early, say, completed Spanish 4 in 11th grade, then there is not an expectation that the student would have continued beyond that.
If you were my kid (at home or at school), I’d say NO to two study halls. Pick up a social studies, a science, or an academic elective!
Unless you already know you’ll be attending a less- or non-competitive college.
LOL. Are you in Maryland? This looks like you’ve met the state and district graduation requirements except for the 4th year of English and don’t know what to do to fill up the rest of the school day. At Happykid’s HS students would sign up for one period of classroom volunteer work and help out in classes that they were good at, or office assistant volunteer work, or they’d cook up an off-campus internship, or they’d enroll in an interesting Tech Ed program, or they’d do an independent Senior Project. Lots of seniors had academic course lists like yours.
It seems like you ran out of courses in science/social studies to me; the same thing happened to me in English. Make sure you have 4 years of each before taking 2 study halls. Could you use one of the study hall slots to take a class at a nearby college? Many offer online options and they might have something not offered at your high school. A lot of people at my school are looking at the medical field and do medical terminology, for example. I did online dual enrollment this year and I’m doing quite well in terms of college admissions.
Would also second the school service option; at my school if your advisor doesn’t have anything for you to do you can study.