I am in 10th grade planning to major in industrial engineering or environmental engineering. My unweighted GPA is 4.0 and weighted is 4.87.
Can you please look at my attached coursework and let me know if I need to edit my courses for 11th and 12th grade? I will have no science course from school left to be taken so plan to take AP CHEM from outside school.
Also, I read UC and ivies both recommend taking some college courses. I will have multivariate/differential/linear algebra but cannot think of any other course. Do you recommend taking college courses if yes, can you let me knlw which ones? Should I take AP computer science? My coming summer schedule is full with internships, research etc.but can try to take something if necessary.
Question: where are you taking AP Chem outside of your high school? Will it appear on your HS transcript? Why is āCollege Chemā listed as an Elective and AP Enviro Science listed as a Language? Usually, you need to take Biology before taking AP Biology.
Where have you read this? Iāve never heard this before. Taking college courses makes sense if you have run out of courses at your high school, but I donāt think those schools recommend taking college courses.
Iām surprised AP Seminar counts as an English course.
You do not need to take AP research. Itās demanding&very time consuming and while quite useful for students aiming for social science or humanities majors, you donāt need it for an Engineering major, especially since youāre taking AP Lang and would have taken AP Seminar before which is an exposure to another type of class than typical APs.
Can you take MVC&Linear Algebra rather than AP Stats (or would MVC not appear on your transcript?)
Why does Spanish2 appear as an out of school course?
Did you take regular/Honors chemistry (is that what ācollege chemā is?) and regular/Honors biology in middle school?
4 APs junior year would be plenty, and senior year is already super rigorous (AP gov-AP Micro, AP Spanish, AP Chem one of the hardest APs, and MVC-linear which is post AP) - as a resulr, I would remove AP lit and would take an honors senior seminar instead, and if your school ācountsā MVC as your senior year math drop AP stats (if you want, replace AP stats with a calculus based stats class once in college, or a college statistics field applied to either a science or a social science field ). Senior year will be super busy with college applications, taking too many APs wonāt move the needle (you will already have lots of rigor) and may harm you (less time to do well on apps AND classes).
For your 11th grade elective, why not take a āfunā class (or take late arrivalā¦ too many teens are sleep deprived).
I agree with thisā¦and for senior year as well. Both of my kids took culinary arts and loved having this course.
Your schedule appears like you are trying to take as many higher level courses as you can squeeze in, including outside of your high school. Iām not sure why you are doing this.
@Pat_Lee1
If you are considering UCs, you should familiarize yourself with the a-g requirements, which include a full year of art. Tagging @ucbalumnus and @Gumbymom for specifics.
Is ācollege chemā general chemistry or something else? If general chemistry, then AP chemistry will mostly duplicate it.
AP statistics will not give useful credit for an engineering major. However, if you are considering industrial engineering, that is heavily statistics based, so it may help you confirm your interest or lack thereof.
The college math courses will cover material much more quickly than the two year single variable calculus you have in the plan.
Several posters have already addressed what College courses would be good options.
Regarding the UC A-G course requirements, below is a list of the minimum courses required for UC admission. To be a competitive applicants, students take well above the minimums but College courses are not a requirement unless you exhaust your HS course offerings and have a specific interest in a subject and want to take more classes related to that subject. College courses can also fulfill the A-G course requirements if certain classes are not available at your HS.
A common A-G course requirement which is overlooked by many applicants is the year of a Visual/Performing arts course which can be easily fulfilled with a 1 semester College course.
Also asking what is COD Music? This may or may not fulfill the VPA requirement.
@Pat_Lee1 are you a CA resident attending HS in CA? If so, your school counselor should be very well informed about the UC/CA requirements for college admission there.
If you are not a CA resident, be sure the CA publics are affordableā¦at full COA.
I will be taking AP CHEM from UCSCOUT. It is associated with University of California. I donot think it will be in high school transcript. I will have to submit another transcript to show APChem and AP macroeconomics courses both taken from UC Scout. My school allows to take AP biology after taking a chemistry course which i am taking this year as a dual enrollment from local community college. AP Env Science is not language but a science course. Sorry for the confusion.
yes AP SEMINAR is counted as an english course at my school. I read somewhere online admission officers like students to take outside college courses (the ones that give credit) in their field of interest. I will be exhausting most AP COURSES in my school except few. I think i may take AP psychology 12th grade.
Is this a college-frosh-level general chemistry course, or a high-school-level preparatory chemistry course (sometimes offered by community colleges for students who want to take general chemistry but have not had high school chemistry)?
If it is a college-frosh-level general chemistry course, taking AP chemistry afterward would likely be needless duplication.
Thanks for you reply. MCV will not appear on my transcript so I will have to take AP stats. Spanish 2 is from outside since I had to accomodate college chem(only chemistry course school offers but as a dual enrollment from community college, there is no AP chemistry offered from school. ) I have not taken Honors chemistry and honors biology. I plan to self study for AP biology in summer to directly take that course. I have excellent memory so it should not be a problem.
There are thousands and thousands and thousands of college applicants who have never taken one college course at all as high school students. Not one college course. And they get accepted to all kinds of colleges without this.
Not sure where you are getting your informationā¦but some of it seems not on the money.
Colleges you apply to as frosh will want to know about all high school and college courses you took, regardless of whether they are on your main high school record.
