<p>what does it mean, when colleges expect for you to have taken a “college preparatory curriculum” prior to entering college? the obvious would be for you to have taken college prep classes. but, my school does not offer any AP classes, so i am unable to take any. would it be enough for me to just score well on the SATs and have a decent GPA?</p>
<p>they emphasize it in the beginning of the second paragraph-
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<p>thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Absolutely. APs are not a requirement for entrance into any college, however if your school did give them, most likely you would be expected to have taken some to be competitive. As your school doesn’t have them, what colleges will be looking for is if you challenged yourself, given the courses available, and if you did well in the courses you took. </p>
<p>If your school offers no choices at all, they will take that into account. They will judge your academic merits based on how well you did in the classes you took, and compare your overall average relative to others in your class, which they figure out either by class ranking or scatter charts. So, be sure your average is as high as you can get it, and do as well as you can on the SATs.</p>
<p>However, if it is clear that a student chose not to take the most rigorous courses and opted for easier ones, then the college rightly will think that student is not ready to buckle down and work, or might not be adequately prepared academically to do college level work.</p>