<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>So my high school (for the past decade or so) has been running on block scheduling- aka we have four classes per day for about an hour and a half each. We keep these same four classes for all of Semester 1, then they swap out with four new classes when Semester 2 begins. As for AP classes, during Semester 1 they are held every day, while when the semester switches they are held every other day.</p>
<p>Many schools do block scheduling. I doubt it’ll impact college admissions</p>
<p>So the awkward moment when I hit send and I had only written half of the post…anyway, I am currently a junior, and have had this type of schedule since freshman year. This coming year, my senior, administration has decided to completely switch the schedule to a 6- period per day rotation (really it’s seven classes drop one). Looking back for a sec, with the previous block scheduling, our absolute max AP load we could take per year was four (and even that, for the kids who took it on, was close to impossible sanity-wise). With this new schedule, is it safe to believe that colleges, when looking at my transcript, will expect me to have accommodated the change with more AP classes to preserve course rigor? My main concern is that I will have to incorporate classes I am not interested in just to accommodate this switch. On the flip side, we are technically losing one whole course per year (from 8 total to 7). Will this prove to be detrimental when schools look at my transcript as well? Thanks for your time!</p>
<p>I have the same problem as well. My school used to have 9 periods now we have 8, because the school made the day shorter due to parent and student complaints.</p>
<p>Oh okay. Have your GC explain it in her rec.</p>
<p>I doubt it will impact your chance of admission - rigor is based on what is available to you, and what is reasonable. How is the school going to schedule the AP classes once they move to the new schedule? Are you even sure you would be able to take more than 4 AP classes with the new schedule? It is likely they would still conflict with other classes and with each other. Either they will have these classes take 1.5 class periods (as they do now, with 1.5 blocks), or they will make them meet in the same amount of time as regular classes. If they meet the same amount of time, then students will be expected to learn that much more on their own - I wouldn’t take on more classes under those circumstances.</p>
<p>How exactly does your current schedule work with AP classes. If you take 4 AP classes, you have filled up your schedule for fall semester, and spring semester all of you classes meet every other day, in each of the 4 possible blocks. How do you have a full block available for another class? Maybe I’m not understanding how your schedule works.</p>
<p>@kaiser14 That’s a lot like what my school did. I don’t think it will impact college admissions negatively. Colleges are going to know that your school changed their system. It’s not like they’ll think your lazy and not taking as many classes.</p>
<p>My school did the same thing and switched this year (I’m a current junior). our GCs promised they’d explain it all on our letters of recommendations.</p>