I’m going into freshman year and I was enrolled to go to another school until a few weeks ago. My old school says I have to register because I’m in the system as an inactive student. The counselor also said they will try to get my schedule as close to possible as the last one, but I’m worried I won’t be able to take honors or french 1. I’m also worried that I won’t get honors classes since I didn’t meet the grade requirements originally, my mom signed a paper agreeing to let me into honors. I can handle the workload, so what should I do to ensure I get placed into honors? Also do honors classes usually fill up at your school?
Is this freshman year of high school or college?
@anxiousenior1 High school, sorry for the confusion.
At my school, honors classes usually don’t fill up because they try to accommodate for what the people want/need for classes.
However, one downside to this is that we end up having 27-30 (sometimes even more) students to a class with one teacher. My graduating class has ~350 kids, but the class after me has around ~500. They thankfully are building a new HS, so the numbers should dwindle down again.
You shouldn’t have a problem. I’ve only heard of one class having a waitlist, and that’s because people took a prerequisite class over the summer.
I Don’t know how it is at your school, but at my school they usually have about 3-4 Teachers who teach a certain Honors class(Like 3-4 teachers that have Two Honors Biology classes a day) so students who sign up for a honors level class will most likely get into that class. So I’m pretty sure you’ll get to have your old schools schedule!
When I was in high school, the thing for honors classes was that you had to be recommended by your teacher in the pre-req class as well as have strong grades in that class. So for example, to be recommended for Honors Chemistry from a CP Biology class in my school, a student has to have an A- or better and be in Geometry in freshman year as well as a recommendation from the bio teacher. The other alternative would be to waive into the class. I did this when I took regular Pre-Calc and registered for BC although I was recommended for AB.
The policy may be different at your new school. Talk to your guidance counselor at the new school and see what the policy is for course placement for new students. I’m sure that if you ask questions, you’ll get a response. Be sure to find out how you’ll get your honors classes and french 1 in there.
To answer your question about classes filling up, I am honestly not sure. Like in my senior year (2 years ago), the Calc AB classes were taught by two teachers. The younger teacher was much more popular and her classes had 35-40 kids for her two sections. When I considered switching from BC to AB, I found I was unable to do so because her classes were just too full to accommodate other students. If I switched to the other teacher, I would have wrecked my schedule. Like with course scheduling, ask your GC if classes max out.
I hope this helped and best of luck with high school!