<p>Hello, I was recently searching the internet for this kind of thread and I haven’t seem to found one like this. Currently I’m a high school Sophomore. An overachieving teenager who hasn’t had the opportunity yet to take an Honors or AP class in high school. My current sophomore GPA is a 4.0, and I can confidently say that I am only able to attain this high unweighted GPA because of the fact that I have only taken CP classes. Theoretically speaking, lets say I keep myself on this route of having good grades in normal classes, an average amount of extra curricular, and lets say a 2000 SAT, where would I end up? as in which type of colleges would accept me? the good student who hasn’t challenged himself in high school.</p>
<p>Also, who would get into the “better” university, the 4.0 CP student or the 3.0 all Honors student? (If they were to have around the same SAT).</p>
<p>By the way, if the 4.0 CP student was to stack on 2 honors classes and 3 AP’s his next year of high school, would he still be able to keep up his straight A’s?</p>
<p>Thank you for responding,
The good CP student.</p>
<p>What do you mean by you haven’t had the “opportunity” to take honors classes? Do you mean they’re not offered? College admissions people won’t penalize you if they’re not offered by your school. </p>
<p>Most colleges aren’t extremely selective except the very top ones, so it can get you into a lot of places. Probably your state flagship (depending on where you live). People will be able to suggest more colleges if you’re more specific about what you want. </p>
<p>“By the way, if the 4.0 CP student was to stack on 2 honors classes and 3 AP’s his next year of high school, would he still be able to keep up his straight A’s?”</p>
<p>Maybe not 100% straight As, and you would have to work harder, but if you’re used to working hard in your classes you’ll probably be fine, especially if you’ve ever felt bored/unchallenged in a regular class. </p>
<p>Here’s how my schedule was/is:
Freshman = all regular classes
Sophomore = four honors classes
Junior = seven APs, one honors </p>
<p>The only reason I don’t have a 4.0 is because I got a B in gym freshman year.</p>
<p>I live in California, so my “state flagship” would be Stanford, Berkeley, then UCLA. Yeah, I don’t feel challenged. I haven’t had the opportunity because Honors and AP classes are not offered in my school until Junior year.</p>
<p>A state flagship is like the best/best-known/oldest public school in the state. (I imagine there’s some kind of official definition.) Stanford is private.
But yeah, Berkeley is probably the most selective state school there is. </p>
<p>You won’t be hurt by this if your school doesn’t offer honors for freshman and sophomores. This should be explained to the colleges you apply to. Initially I thought you meant you had chosen not to take them.
If you want, you could take online AP classes or self-study AP tests in addition to what you take at school.</p>
<p>Do you know if online AP classes weighted the same as high school AP classes in the eyes of colleges?
Because I’m considering to maybe take one or two.</p>
<p>They’re probably about the same.
Although if you took any sort of AP class and then got a bad score on the AP test, that could make the class look bad/non-rigorous.</p>
<p>The 30% rejection rate is for a group of students which includes those who took AP/Honors. Therefore, one can assume that the people who did not take AP/Honors got a much higher percent of rejections.</p>
<p>If your school does not allow you to take honors or AP until junior year, then that information will be part of the material your counselor sends with your recommendation and transcript. Speak with your counselor, and find out what you need to do to meet your own high school’s standard for the “most rigorous” program.</p>
<p>Thank you for all of your responses.
I think I’m going to just take AP classes next year and senior year because the AP classes that I was planning to take online are also offered to Juniors and Seniors at my school, and I’d rather have a teacher teach me than a computer program, just because it’s easier for me to understand the material that way and because I was anyways planning to take those classes next year :p. </p>
<p>Again, Thank you for all of your responses.</p>