Will doubling up on aps senior year make up for lack of aps in previous years? (ucs)

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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So I’m going to be a junior this year. Here’s my schedule:

-AP Lang
-College Course: Sociology
-Honors Chem
-Honors US History
-Algebra 2
-Developmental Psychology (regular college prep course)

I haven’t taken any aps/honors prior to this year because of the prerequisites needed to get into classes. I unfortunately wasn’t able to get into ap psychology, and am worried because I only have 1 ap. I know ucs only really consider grades from 10-11, but I also read on their website that they consider the rigor of your senior year schedule, and I’m planning to take a lot more aps next year. I also read somewhere else that they don’t really consider the rigor of your senior year schedule, and I’m conflicted on what to believe. If someone could tell me the importance of senior year courses, that’d be great, because I don’t want to take a bunch of challenging courses for nothing.

2

UC’s do consider the rigor of your Senior schedule along with your Sophomore and Junior year schedules. Since your school requires pre-req courses so you can take the AP versions, you should not be penalized for not having many AP’s. If this is true, how many AP classes do the top students in your HS manage to take by end of Senior year? If you have the same amount, then you should be fine.

Also realize that the UC’s only recognize a few “Honors” courses as being UC approved for the extra honors points the UC GPA calculation, so your UC GPA may not be on the higher end of the scale in comparison to HS students that have AP’s available to them since Freshman/Sophomore year. As long as your schedule is considered rigorous by your HS standards, you will should fare well in the admissions process.

3

For this year:
Why not algebra2 honors?
What about foreign language?
For next year:
What classes are you thinking of and what do you need to do to qualify?

4

MYOS, I can only take Algebra 2 advanced, there’s no honors. Also, I’ve already taken three years of Spanish.

5

Ok, try to take the Spanish subject test then.
Ok regarding algebra2.
All I good then.

UCs do consider senior year rigor.
Ideally you’d have
Precalculus advanced
AP statistics
AP gov/econ
AP history
A science
English honors or accelerated

6

My planned schedule for next year
-AP Calc AB (i’m in advanced algebra 2 and there’s a calc placement test, if i pass it I’ll be able to do calc)
-AP Stats
-AP Gov
-AP Eng Lit
-Honors Physiology
-AP Psych

7

Going from 1 to 5 is too much. Lit yourself bro 3 APs. My recommendation would be calc and gov, plus other lit or stats.

8

Students often find a disconnect of where they are with grades/classes and the colleges they think they want to go to.

Trying to go from 1 to 5 APs to fit a UC is probably to a successful plan.
Taking -2-3 APs and finding a college that fits YOU is a successful plan.