archi92

So here's my schedule:

-AP Lit
-AP CAL
-free period(normally I would have US Hist 1--> not because I failed but I transferred)
-American Lit 1(for the sakes of credits)
-Advance Art
-American Democracy/Econ
-AP Art History.

I dropped US Hist because basically it's a waste of time. I wanted to concentrate more on my SAT scores and prepare others AP(I will self-taught AP Environ and AP French). What would the colleges think of my schedule? Would they think me as a lazy student?
Please I need your help!!!!!!!!

Vaust

You can't say it won't affect your application.

College administrators look for rigor in your schedule. Likewise, a free period is what is it; a free period.

Personally, I would try my best to polish my schedule to look as rigorous as it possibly can be because that could be the potential difference between my application and the next which ultimately determines whether I get into that particular college.

hatersunite

Community College is your last resort.

chenman333

I've got 2 free periods but I'm doing independent studies to cover over them. Already finished one of them though so yeah... I get the best of both worlds. Rigor and free time.

siglio21

how would a free period appear on a transcript?

tmanneopen

It wouldn't really appear, it just would only list your actual classes.

IMO, a free period won't affect you that much, especially if it is the norm at your school. If you have a rigourous schedule already, and the only reason you would take another class is just to take another class, then just keep your free period. Colleges will see that you worked on your quality classes, not a quantity.

raiderade

I'm always so confused by this question. At my school it's mandatory to have 6 free periods out of the 40 periods on a 6 day schedule. Some people have up to 15 free slots. I'd never really considered it would look bad since my school requires them.

Karver

Many people have a free period at my school and end up in Harvard

tmanneopen

^Agreed, same at my school.

Millancad

Yeah, raideraide, my school is similar, so I really freaked out when people started talking about how bad free periods/study hall bells are on CC. My school requires certain 1 semester classes, health, speaking, two semesters of gym, thus it's near impossible to graduate without having a few semesters of study hall..

Besides that, this year I'm sort of freaked, because it looks like I only have 5 classes in a 7 bell school. Two of them are 1.5 bells, so I have 6 bells, one study hall. I'm doing two college classes though, and you're only allowed to take a total of 7 classes, so the study hall I have is required. And if that doesn't make up for it, I'm self studying an AP.

Yeah, but I still feel like voluntarily taking a study hall makes your schedule look a bit less rigorous, no matter how many APs you're taking.

archi92

the problem for me is that my school only offers 5 AP classes (pretty small school) where as I already took 3 and self studying 2-3 AP more. Anyhow, I just talked to my counselor and replaced that third period with Pre-Cal(haven't taken yet).
But thanks guys for helping

PickUpSticks

I promise it won't matter. At my school we're required to have a free period if we take APs because of the work load.

nil desperandum

I'm doomed............

But , I don't know- I don't think it matters. I mean I have a study hall which I could opt out of but I needed it to cool down/ do homework/get help from other teachers. I contemplated destroying my study hall but didn't want to b/c I'm already taking three APs and two honors classes and I just- i don't know.....
Should I worry?

Akrana

Absolutely.

Colleges want only to see that you destroyed all of your free time, spending it all on school work.

nunya

I was worried about that as well. After looking around, I found that most seniors have free periods for whatever reason. I'm sure college know scheduling problems occur and as long as they can see you've taken APs then everything should be fine.