Will this confuse colleges? My rigor will be weird

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>So starting this Summer-mid of Freshman year I will be taking APUSH and AP Chem even though they are offered during Junior year (so I can get it out of the way,) and so in Senior I can get College Credit and take fun classes instead</p>

<p>This is because the only two classes offered in Freshman year are Honors Math and Honors Environmental Science, which I heard was not worth it so instead I figured to take these classes during my easy Freshman year</p>

<p>But that said, given I am taking the classes Freshman year, will they not count towards my GPA? I have heard schools ignore Freshman grades/workload</p>

<p>Not to mention I will be taking Subject Tests/AP Exams at the end of the school year next year</p>

<p>How does this look? </p>

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<p>Some schools, like the UCs, ignore freshman year while most don’t</p>

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<p>But given they are Junior classes, will that make a difference?</p>

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No. They might be junior courses at your school, but that is not the case everywhere. I took AP Chem as a freshman during the school year.</p>

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<p>Well I mean Junior classes for our school, given they see the OFFERED classes at your school (how else would they compare rigor,) they would see APUSH and AP Chem were offered during Junior (inferred if they see all offered classes,) hence seeing I chose a harder rigor given it was not offered during Freshman</p>

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<p>Admissions officers are not going to assess rigor by analyzing what classes are offered what year. They don’t have that luxury of time. Your guidance counselor will inform colleges of the rigor of your schedule from filling out the box on the upper right side of p2:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Very helpful post btw, thank you!</p>