<p>1.) Many schools don’t offer honors courses. Mine certainly didn’t. There’s no GPA weighting of any kind that happens.</p>
<p>2.) You seem to be confusing honors with advanced. Maybe that’s how they do it at your school. I don’t know. An honors course covers roughly the same material as a non-honors course. An advanced course comes AFTER an introductory course, not instead of an introductory course.</p>
<p>Advanced coursework of some kind is a must in order to graduate from college. Advanced coursework in the sciences – at least, moderately advanced – is very valuable as well.</p>