<p>How will the fact that I am a first generation American effect my admissions into colleges/the way colleges look at my application, if at all.</p>
<p>I am a first generation American; I take standard level English courses. One reason fo this could be because I spent my childhood speaking broken English. I am in honors/ap courses for the rest of the 5 main subjects.</p>
<p>It might give you a bit of a boost at some schools, but will probably not have a significant effect on your application.</p>
<p>As for the English courses, it’ll probably help them understand why you’re in standard level English courses and make them less likely to hold that against you.</p>
<p>Overall, though, the impact probably won’t be significant.</p>
<p>Well I’m mostly worried about BC as far as colleges go. Here are my high school courses so far:</p>
<p>Fresh:
Geometry-H
Wold History-H
Biology-H
English-C
Spanish II-C
Principals of Business-C
Microsoft Office-C</p>
<p>Soph:
Alg 2 w/ Trig-H
Chemistry-h
USI-H
Spanish III-H
English-C
Human Anatomy-C</p>
<p>Junior (current)
Differential Calculus-H
Ap Bio
Ap Chem
USII-H
Spanish IV-C
English-C</p>
<p>I plan to take these next year</p>
<p>Senior
Ap BC Calc
Ap Physics
Physiology-H
Spanish V-H</p>
<p>My dilemma is: Should I take honors or standard English. If I take honors english, I might get c’s and be overworked. If i take standard english, I will almost definitely have a 4.0 UW GPA for the year but the standard english courses are only half year electives such as poetry, journalism, plays, etc. </p>
<p>So what should I do for BC? GPA or harder course?</p>