At my high school, they offer you the route that will lead to you to receiving an Honors Diploma when you graduate. I’ve been working towards this for the past two years now, and I’m very excited about completing the requirements for an honors diploma. However, my chem teacher told her classes awhile ago that honors diplomas are basically a waste of your time, that you’re crowding your schedule with unnecessary classes, and that colleges don’t care about who has an honors diploma. I found it extremely rude that a teacher would say something like that to her students, students that have set such a high goal for themselves. My question here is: does graduating with Honors have its benefits when you are applying to college?
It’s not like you are required to take all AP classes in those subjects. It’s just getting 4 credits in each of the core and all those other requirments. My guess it’s not a big deal to have one