<p>I attend a small, very uncompetitive high school so we don't have many APs and honors classes and have only one college class this year and no IBs. I have taken all the AP and honors courses I could, however, and I thought every school had a shett saying the number of APs and honors courses available to send with the students' transcript and rec letter, but the only profile my school has is outdated and has a lot of misinformation. For this reason, the counselors send no profile on my school at all for the colleges to see. Will this hurt me? How would the colleges know that my school doesn't offer 20 APs and 50 honors classes? Should I request that a new profile be made and sent to the colleges I am applying to?</p>
<p>I'm guessing the school profile is the counselor's responsibility. I don't think it will be held against you, but the school would look at your other stats more. I would call the school and ask if the profile is important.</p>
<p>If a college is unfamiliar with your particular school they'll call the counselor and ask direct questions. they can also tell lots about schools by their zip codes. Most schools with 20 plus APs are well known to colleges.</p>
<p>however, there's no excuse for a school to not have a good profile. Talk to your principal.</p>
<p>This is strange: info on the sheet would be numbers like percentage of kids eligible for reduced/free lunch (shows relative poverty level), percentage kids going on to 4 year colleges, and info on the rigorous courses available.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies! My zipcode won't help--My crappy (catholic) school's unfortunately in Westchester, NY. I think I will talk to someone about it.</p>