<p>My son is going to enter in high school. In middle school he is in all honors class. But wondering should he go for all honors class in High school or not.</p>
<p>Reason I am asking is because he is exhaust even in middle school with all honors class (especially with Geometry). Advantage for honors class will be that his weighted GPA may come out better but afraid that his raw GPA may hurt. </p>
<p>Q.1 - He is interested for medical so in that case will it be better that he shouldn’t go for Honors Language Arts.</p>
<p>Q.2 - College looks for weighted GPA only or both GPA.</p>
<p>He is a long way off with a lot of work in between… Medical schools will not be looking at his high school GPA, weighted or not. Let him deal with high school first before thinking about med school.</p>
<p>@dp3344, Is your son making straight As now. If so, then let him keep doing what he’s doing if that’s what he wants to do. If he’s not making As, then he may be doing too much. School should be fun too, so make sure he has time for activities/clubs/music and anything else that interest him. </p>
<p>Your son’s high school record will have no bearing on med schools except if he take some dual enrollement or college classes for college credit. (AP grades don’t matter).</p>
<p>It’s too early to be worrying about these things. Your child needs to take courses that are appropriate for him, but also protect his GPA so he gets into a good college. Any “med school” plans for someone who is in the eight grade is premature. he could change his mind ten times before he’s ready to apply to med school.</p>
<p>Every kid is different. My D. wanted to take the most difficult classes at HS, so that the easier ones are left to take at college to boost her GPA. However, GPA ended up not to be any concern, not in HS, not at college. To explain, she took college US History at HS (history has been her hardest class) and specifically did not take AP Stats (very easy). Yes, she had to work exceptionally hard in that history class and use her father’s help, but she got an A and did not need to take it at college. And college Stats was one her easiest A in college.
The indication of correct schedule is how much free time a kid has after homework is complete in the best way. My D. was very involved in various ECs and her sport alone was taking 3 hours every weekday with many out of town meets on the weekends and middle of the week meets. Besides that, she was taking private piano, art, was Editor of her school newspaper and worked, volunteered during summers.<br>
If kid is capapble of having normal life and pursue his personal interests to the fullest and still having high GPA, then his schedule is perfect. If not, then it has to be adjusted. Your child is the only one who can try and see.
Getting to “good” college is not that important if going to Medical School. Any college that matches kid’s personality and wide range of interests is completely fine.</p>