Do colleges take a serious look at PLTW courses?

Pathnottaken
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 01:20:32 +0000

Yes, and it depends. At top schools they will look at all of your grades and some schools are going to focus on certain core classes or things related to your intended major. Your overall GPA matters and this is a building block.

PLTW High School courses are a college level class. If you do well you call apply for college credit. That class is a version of this I believe: High School Engineering Curriculum Grades 9-12 | PLTW

Figure out with your teacher where you are struggling. The directions should be straight forward as this is the first in a series of classes, but you need to take time to work through the project. Most kids struggle in 9th grade because they can not just wing it any more. Things might have been easier in middle school and now there is more independent work, but if you show an interest in the concepts the teacher will help you. The teacher honestly may be tougher in this class because they wanted to teach engineering and were told this is an art elective or they wanted to teach art or graphic design and were told to teach this engineering course. Who knows, but you can do this.

It is interesting your school counts it as an art credit. Kind of cool, but do you have an interest in engineering? Or did your school just schedule you into an elective?