Does your high school affect college chances?

cali4niastudent
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:34:07 +0000

Hey guys, I have a few questions on how your high school affects college chances. First of all, do colleges look at how prestigious your high school is? In other words, do they understand that your high school is much, much tougher than the schools of other applicants, making your GPA a bit lower? For example, the high school I went to was at one point, ranked like the 5th or 6th best high school in the nation. There is A LOT of competition there (getting one B drops your rank by 30-40)

My second question is, do colleges know how your school handles AP courses? Every school that I know allows sophomores to start taking AP classes, but my school does not allow most people to take APs until junior year.

Sorry for making this post so long. Thanks for taking the time to read this, it’d be great if you can answer some of my questions!