<p>I'm not sure if this is the right subforum to ask this, but I'm not sure where else to put it, so here goes:</p>
<p>On many college admissions pages, they say that they recommend/require X amount of years in a class (Like english, or science), my question is: If you acquire that credit from a different class, like a voc. ed class, will they still consider it as a year in that subject?</p>
<p>My specific situation is that I can either take Honors English or calculus. Given that I want to go into comp sci, I figure that calculus is the clear choice here. I can get my english credit from a class that I'm taking at a Career Tech Center (Internet, Network, and Security Technologies, the closest thing to a comp sci class I can get); I'm not too worried about missing the English class itself because I've heard that it's pretty weak. My only problem is that a ton of colleges want four years of English, which is what brought me to my above question</p>
<p>“Internet, Network, and Security Technologies” might not be seen by colleges as an English course in the usual sense, as the usual expectation is a course that concentrates on writing and literature.</p>
<p>I think the question is “how is Internet, Network, and Security Technologies an English credit?”</p>
<p>I think 4 years of English is very important. The calculus is also very good to have. If you are taking electives instead of both of these, I think it is a bad move.</p>
<p>Well, my school doesn’t offer calculus itself, I have to take it at a local community college, and there are only two classes available, one of which is completely impossible, the other is the one that directly conflicts with my English class. I could try to take calc in the second semester, but I have no idea when it’s offered, and my schedule is more busy then (My ECs really pick up that semester) so it’s entirely possible that I won’t be able to take it. A third option would be to take non-honors english, which wouldn’t conflict in the first semester at least, but it’s definitely much less rigorous (although the honors isn’t exactly rigorous, either).</p>
<p>Thanks for your help up to this point, I would appreciate any more help you would like to offer</p>