<p>When I moved to a new school in junior year, a lot of AP courses including AP English were already full by the time I registered for classes. Therefore, I had to choose AP Psychology as a replacement and take honors English instead. Would colleges think that I didn't challenge myself enough by taking AP Psychology (an apparently easy AP class) instead of AP english which a lot of juniors took? In her letter of reccommendation, my counselor specifically said that I took the most rigorous courses available to me. Is her statement something they take into account then?</p>
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<p>Yes, colleges will consider what your GC said and marked on the SSR. You could have your GC make a statement on the SSR about AP English being filled when you transferred.</p>
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<p>I’m not an AO but to me it sounds like it may need a little more elaborate explanation than what your GC submitted. If I were you, I would make sure you “over-explain” your situation in taking that class. No cookies, I just finished the leftover Halloween candy…</p>
<p>The problem is my counselor already uploaded her rec and I submitted my application a week ago. I really hope they understand.
In the rec, she said that my unique situation helped her exercise her scheduling creativity to fulfill my wishes and graduation requirements and that I was the guinea pig for the experiments.</p>
<p>Should I email colleges about this?</p>
<p>Unless your school is really ghetto, the guidance counselor looks out for the best of their students and will fully explain the situation of their students (unless he/she hates you to death, of course). I think you’ll be fine as it is but you can always contact your GC about what he/she really said.</p>
<p>I still would add this information into the “additional information” section of your (common) application. The upside of making/clarifying this point outweighs the downside of being repetitious, imho.</p>
<p>Explain it on the app under additional info. You don’t have to go overboard in detail. It’s a reasonable explanation that any reasonable person would understand.</p>
<p>Personally, if I were the admissions officer, I would be very turned off by even mentioning that. I personally would be offended that you are admitting to purposely trying to game the system by trying to take classes that colleges would think would be the most rigorous.</p>
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<p>lol</p>
<p>I submitted my application to my ED college a week ago. So, I can’t change the additional info of that app anymore =(</p>