Is this a strong enough courseload to get into a competitive LAC?

Applying to College
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<p>I want to get into a competitive LAC like Williams, Wesleyan, or Trinity… Is this courseload (with a GPA 3.9 unweighted, 4.4 weighted) difficult enough?</p>

<p>Frosh Year
World History
Honors Lit/Genre
Spanish 2
Honors Physics
Honors Algebra 2
Health/PE</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
AP Euro
Honors Writing/Fundamentals
Spanish 3 (College Level)
Honors Biology
Honors Trig
Health/PE</p>

<p>Junior Year
APUSH
AP Lit
AP Spanish
Honors Chem
AP Stats
Honors Precalc</p>

<p>Senior Year
AP Gov
AP Economics
AP Calc
AP Composition
AP Bio
AP Chem</p>

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<p>“difficult enough”?</p>

<p>Are you kidding us? How much more do you think a student takes? APs and honors courses your two final years. What else do you think kids DO?</p>

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<p>I think you should take some more APs if you want to impress adcoms.</p>

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<p>^no. just, no. you’re schedule is fine. beyond fine actually. it’s quite good for LACs.</p>

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<p>@stressedouttt, I’m pretty sure notanengineer was being sarcastic, haha :)</p>

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<p>huh. maybe. I’m bad with sarcasm :P</p>

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<p>I’m just freaking out… I see all these kids come out with every AP test done and a 4.0… ahhhh</p>

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<p>Yes, sarcasm. It doesn’t look like your course load could be more rigorous. Focus on developing extracurricular interests and work experience. If you get a decent GPA with that course load it will be a positive factor at any school.</p>

<p>People tend to say that past a certain point, GPA/course load and test scores don’t matter, which is probably true. You are fine academically.</p>

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<p>I know someone that dropped their lunch so they can take 7 APs their senior year haha.
But my school doesn’t offer APs sophomore year so I think he was trying to make up for it. </p>

<p>But yeah, that’s good enough. Just make sure you can keep up a 90 or high 80s in those classes so it doesn’t look like you can’t handle your own schedule.</p>

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<p>I definitely can… my ECs (I feel) are weak…
I have choir (not so into it), member of the school’s volunteer program, play volleyball, dance team, volunteer at an elementary school, and at a preschool for the children of the mentally challenged… I just don’t know what else to do… I want to be a psychology major, and don’t know how to tie into that.</p>

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<p>You’re contributing to the stereotype.</p>

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<p>Ahhhh I know.
I’m sorry…
I just see all these people who are SO much better than me, and I feel like I’m going to end up a waitress and UGH.</p>

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<p>This feels like a ■■■■■ thread</p>

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<p>100% honest I promise. I just tend to be a perfectionist…</p>

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<p>Trinity and Wesleyan are two completely different stories. I took a whole lot fewer tests (I’m an IB kid) than you did and got waitlisted and eventually rejected from Wes, but at the same time offered a full tuition scholarship to Trinity.</p>

<p>My advice to you is to take the classes and do the extracurriculars that you want to, not the ones that you think will impress college admissions officers. Passion will separate you from every other kid who’s struggling through every AP their school offers.</p>

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<p>Not to be mean but do you really think you need to ask with that GPA and that courseload?</p>