Are those classes of my high school year good enough to get me in into a very electives school?

Applying to College
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freshman

:black_small_square:alg.2/geometry
:black_small_square:cemestry
:black_small_square:english 1
:black_small_square:history
:black_small_square:Spanish 1

sophomore

• pre - calc
• AP chem / biology
• english 2 Hp
• AP modern history
• Spanish 2

Junior

• AP calclus AB
• AP bio / physics
• AP english 3
• AP us history
• Spanish 3

senior

• AP calclus BC
• physics HP
• AP english
• AP government
• Art 1

Or properly will take physics over the summer

Also I want to major in pre-med. I know it is going to be a struggle to handle those AP classes homework beside I like to challenge my self but if I don’t i feel empty.

Is there something I can fix or change ( I mean the schedule). Any suggestion?

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A good thing for you to do would be to read a lot. Right now your English is not strong and extensive reading will help that.

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A couple of comments.

  1. The best person to speak to about this will be your HS guidance counselor. The top schools want your guidance counselor to be able to check the box in his/her letter of recommendation saying you have taken the most rigorous curriculum available at your HS. Ask your guidance counselor if this proposed schedule meets that criteria for most rigorous.
  2. What year of HS are your currently in? It is unwise to plan your schedule out too far in advance. Take one year at a time.
  3. There is no schedule that will “get you into” a top college. Course rigor is one of many many components of a holistic application review. Other things that will be consider include (but are not limited to): GPA, standardized tests, Extracurricular activities, Letter of Recommendation, Essays (to name a few).
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Per another post, poster is currently in Grade 8.

@Needhelp976, laying out a 4 year plan for high school is a reasonable thing to do, but you should talk to your GC in the autumn to see how it works in the school you will be attending.

From another post, you are currently in pre-algebra and planning to take Alg I over the summer to get to Alg 2, so that you can get to Calc. If you do Alg I in summer school, and it turns out not to be good prep for Alg 2, you could end up struggling in Alg 2. Be sure that you can change back to Alg 1 before it affects your grade if that happens, because here’s the thing: a low grade in Alg 2 will hurt you more than not getting to Calc BC by senior year. As @happy1 pointed out, as long as your GC will tick the ‘most rigorous’ box, your achieved grades will be more important than the exact classes.

Be careful of the Grade 11 schedule- some courses have particularly heavy workloads, so the volume of work can challenge even if the content is manageable (usual suspects at many schools are APs Bio, Chem & US Hx; sometimes Lit) and physics depends a lot on which one you take. Also, many students sail through 9 & 10 and then the work and difficulty of the material ramps up, just as (in theory) your level of responsibility/commitment to your ECs ramps up.

These are really useful posts from the MIT admissions team that I suggest you take to heart:
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/there_is_no_formula

ps, fyi, you don’t major in ‘pre-med’- it’s just a group of pre-requisite classes that you can take with any major. A lot of students who hope to go to medical school major in a relevant science b/c they are good at those subjects & enjoy them, but you don’t have to.

pss, working on your English skills is much more important than you might realize at this point