Is an explaination for not taking Honor classes necessary?

Odd_Monkey
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:21:31 +0000

I’m not explaining in my app… I’m almost in the same spot as you. As long as the colleges see that we’re in honors now and have an upward trend, I think we’ll be fine. I hope.

Though I’ve lived in the US my whole life, I also was automatically put into regulars classes for freshman year while others were placed into all honors. For the following years, we have to apply to honors classes at my school, and I got placed into a few honors sophomore year, but I wasn’t able to max out until jr year.

My school doesn’t officially rank, but by Texas law, UT gives automatic admission to top 10%, so my school must report who’s in top 10. Despite getting almost all A’s and a 32 on the ACT, I’m not top 10% because of my honors situation. In other words, I have a great chance of getting rejected… to someone who has a ACT of 23 yet is top 10% at their high school… Anyways, sorry for ranting.