<p>I have a serious dilemma this semester.
I had planned a schedule with 6 courses, 5 of those being 200 level courses because I fear that my coursework might be perceived as weak (just because I go to a community college) even though I transferred from a good school to the community college. </p>
<p>I dropped one of the 5 because I didn’t think it would be beneficial to my application because the Ivy League schools I applied to are out of my reach and it wouldn’t fulfill any kind of requirement.</p>
<p>So what I was left with was a schedule with 3 English Literature courses, an elementary French course and the highest level Sociology course offered at my school. And this schedule… it didn’t really fulfill any core requirements except for maybe the language requirement (French) so I was taking it to try to get straight As with a tough schedule</p>
<p>The Sociology course was cancelled due to an inadequate class size, I assume that one of my English courses (they’re all online) was cancelled because I can’t access the course online while I can access my 2 other courses and what I ended up doing was replacing the Sociology course with a comparative religion course and I’m going to try to replace the English course that I can’t access tommorow.</p>
<p>My question is… what is better when looking to transfer? (Especially for me, since I’m now putting all my efforts toward transferring to Boston College) A challenging schedule of classes or a schedule of classes that will fulfill my core requirements at the school I want to transfer to? The comparative religion course would partially fulfill my theology requirement if I got into BC and I could plug in either a 100 level composition or history class to fulfill another requirement for BC.</p>
<p>Does it look better that I’m trying to get my core requirements completed instead of taking the heavy courseload or will it look to them like I’m trying to take it easy and get a 4.0?(which isn’t true since last semester I challenged myself with General Chemistry and ended up with a 3.675 instead of a 4.0 because of that class)</p>
<p>Should I send them another addendum to clear up any confusion? Because I sent them a letter a couple of weeks ago highlighting my planned courses for Spring 2010 but now that this has happened when they get the mid-term grade report in March, they might wonder why I have these 100 level courses replacing 2 of the 200 level courses I had told them I was taking</p>
<p>What do you think I should do? What looks better? Be honest</p>