All classes will be taken at the county college. The ones that are starred are requirements that can’t be bypassed. I’m planning on taking 5 classes a semester. Obviously schedules are a lot more complicated since this is a college and I may not get all of the classes I want, but as a tentative course list, how would this look in terms of college admissions? I’m looking at a lot of the elite liberal arts colleges and want to major in neuroscience.
English Composition 1*
English Composition 2*
Lifetime Wellness*
Aquatic fitness (or something else to fill my gym requirement)*
Anatomy & Physiology 2* (Taking A&P 1 now)
Cell Biology
Calculus 1
Computer Science
Psychology
Highest level Spanish I can place into (AP Spanish Lang right now)
Any feedback on this would be great. Obviously I’ll be discussing everything with my guidance counselor but I’m a bit overly eager about taking my classes at county college next year… Thanks!
It’s the guidance counselor (GC), not us, who decides if your senior schedule meets the requirement for ‘most rigorous’ which is the box the GC has to check on his/her recommendation to the colleges if you want to go somewhere selective. The rating is generally based on what’s offered at your school (or CC in your case) and what is a typical load for seniors at your school. What is impressive at one school isn’t impressive at another so we can’t evaluate this.
By the way, ‘impressive’ is not the objective here. You just want ‘most rigorous’ available to you. There are many schools out there where all the top students take every class AP that’s offered but CC classes aren’t an option. There are private schools that are highly rigorous that offer no AP classes at all - they claim their classes are more rigorous than the AP classes and they won’t ‘teach to the test.’ There are IB programs which are very rigorous but offer no APs. All these students can get a ‘most rigorous’ rating if that’s what their GC says has been earned. And colleges are no more impressed by one route than they are by another.
Agreed, you need to ask your guidance counselor if this is enough for him/her to check off that you took the most rigorous schedule available at your HS. Quite frankly that is the only opinion that really matters.
Thanks!