9th-11th Grade by the way. UW 3.93 W 4.2 (as of beginning of junior year). All math including senior is double period which is the best I could get into freshman year because of moving from a foreign country. Mainly worried that Ed/ea schools I apply to will only see first 3 years and will not be able to evaluate senior year grades by comparing to its rigor.
Business Ed
Business Explorations
Accounting 1-Financial
Math
Pre-Alg (Summer school)
Adv. Algebra 1
Adv. Geo/Trig H
Adv. Alg. 2/Precalc H
English
English 1 Normal
English 2 Normal
AP Lang
Science
Biology Normal
Chemistry Normal
AP Physics 1
Social Studies
AP HUGE
US History (Normal in summer school)
AP World (Modern)
AP Microeconomics
Foreign Language
Spanish 2
Spanish 3
Senior year Courseload
Ap calc ab
Ap Lit
Ap Macro/gov
APES
Spanish 4 Dual Credit
Your course rigor is going to be judged by what was available to you, so it is hard to make full judgement with knowing what was available. At first glance I would say your English and Science look to be a little weak, but that is assuming there were honors English and honors or AP Science versions of the classes you took available your first few years. Also, APES is looked upon as an “easy” AP science class. It is nothing horrible, but for the Top 20s you will be going up against kids that have maxed out on rigor.
For your EA/ED applications the schools will still be able to evaluate the rigor of your classes just not your grades. Showing that you are increasing or at least maintaining your rigor in your Sr year is good.
@racereer As my 4 year schedule is currently, do you think I am a competitive applicant to T20’s for econ/finance assuming a gpa greater than or equal to a 3.93 UW? Side question: Will the business classes help or hurt for T20’s I apply to for both Finance (Notre Dame, Michigan, Georgetown etc.) and Economics (Northwestern, Uchicago, vandy etc.). Please give 1 answer for finance and 1 for econ. because your response may vary and I don’t want to confuse the 2.
If you need some context based on my HS, the average junior at my schools who takes AP’s at all (this is important, only 25% of my HS has taken 1 or more AP throughout HS) takes 2.7 AP’s total by the end of junior year and 4.8 AP’s total by the end of senior year. For the current year, I don’t have stats ofc but it should increase by max 1 ap more each worst case scenario (3.7 junior 5.8 senior). I have taken 5 by end of jr year and 10 throughout HS. Please be honest. As for total ap’s offered, about 20.
The person to ask about your rigor is your guidance counselor. It’s hard to assess a student’s courses out of context.