<p>My friend isn't taking any Honors classes or anything besides the regular classes freshman year (despite everything I said to convince her to). Will this hurt her chance at places like her dream college Stanford (or other top tier schools)? What if she transfers to honors classes sophmore year? Also, will it hurt that she will only get up to precalculus senior year? Thanks I need some advice for her.</p>
<p>Oh and I'm asking for her (she doesn't have an account on here yet).</p>
<p>If your school offers honors courses and she isn't taking them, them yes. Stanford, like any other top school, wants the kids who've taken the hardest curriculum and aced it. </p>
<p>Precal senior year won't kill her. Transferring into honors classes sophomore year is fine. But Stanford is really, really, really hard to get into.</p>
<p>it will look horrible....and chances ruined essentially...</p>
<p>so, she should DEFINITELY
when she's competing with the rest of the applicant school for a position in the prestigious university, she will have to stand up against other people who have so demanding curricula and other stuff...she'd be screwed if she didnt do that</p>
<p>Well our school does offer Honors classes (the IB program). Not even if she transfers into the IB classes sophmore year? Exactly how bad will this look?</p>
<p>Oh and what about the math?</p>
<p>IB program is not honors, it's equivalent to APs....dont get me started....:p
(and in my opinion, IB is better than APs-and i know that this is the opinion of a bunch of others who have done both)</p>
<p>DEFINITELY advise her strongly to change her mind, and change her courses if she still can. I know she wants to take it easy freshman year since it's the first year of HS, but it'll make it easier to transfer into harder courses soph year, and elite colleges look for a difficult courseload. Lots of people can ace easy courses, few can ace many hard ones at one time, and those are the ones they're looking for.</p>
<p>I think its too late to get in this year. If she were not to take the IB classes is she not likely to get in?</p>
<p>Are you asking if she's not likely to get into IB next year? Depends how your school works. Mine did it fairly strictly, aka it would be very hard to transfer into honors/AP math if you weren't in it last year. But different schools have different policies so you should check with her guidance counselor. Also, I'm sure if she pushed hard enough she could get into the harder courses, although from what you recount she doesn't really want to so it seems out of the question. By no means does this disqualify her from getting into an elite school like Stanford, but it sure doesn't help.</p>
<p>^^ That makes sense. I'm going to talk to her. It's just all of the people on here that say they're accepted to places like stanford have taken AP or IB classes.</p>