The summer before sophomore year I took English 10 so I wouldn’t have to take it during the school year. I’m going into my senior year and I’m applying to t20 type colleges and state flagships on the East Coast. I’m wondering if that would hinder my college app, because colleges always talk about years, not credits.
For the record, I just took Lit and it was really easy, I’m expecting a 5.
Conventionally, a high school summer course that covers a full academic year’s worth of material and carries the same amount of credit (equivalent to the same course taken during the regular academic year) would be counted as a “year” of that course.
Ok, thanks, but would a college look down upon the class? I did other stuff during the summer (research, volunteering, and startup work), so it wasn’t like I was wasting my summer taking the class. The class covered a full year, but it was accelerated to the point where I finished it in less than a month working on it for 2 hours a day (it’s virtual).
It wasn’t as spread out as the actual English class that my peers took the following two semesters, but it technically counts as an English credit.
Most of my reaches are pretty holistic with their admissions, so would this play a factor?
If you earned credit for a full year of high school English with that summer class, then it counts as a year.
But honestly, virtual for 32 hours? What about readings, essays? When you consider that a full yr of high school english would have met for about 128 classroom hours, plus reading assignments and essays, that one month virtual summer class does not sound as if it were the equal of a full yr of high school english.
I don’t know if this answers your question, but the class is asynchronous. We get 8 or 9 weeks to finish the class, and during each week we are given a set number of assignments, readings, and writing prompts that need to be turned in for completion. Usually, a student would take the first semester one summer and the second semester in the following summer, but I doubled up.
English is a whole lot of yap, mainly from the teacher. The assignment in a normal hs English class are pretty easy, it’s just that the ideas that are taught can be advanced and need to be taught step-by-step, which takes up a lot of time. In my freshmen English class, we had a bunch of seminars and every couple of weeks we would have a day were we would just talk about something, whether it’s cost of living or whether Gen X is spoiled or something like that. That takes up a lot of time as well.
I’m guessing that the actual technical parts of class are pretty easy, and that the point of a hs English class is to learn how to think? That’s how it was explained to me.
Considering that it took me about a month, 2ish hours a day, 5 days a week, that comes out to the high 40’s, so I guess that what I said above checks out.