senior courseload for top schools?

Applying to College
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<p>I have exhausted all the math classes at my high school and have been taking classes at the local university for a couple of years, but in the summer or spring since I play varsity soccer during the fall and do not have time to take a class after school.</p>

<p>I am a rising senior, and thus want to complete one more university class (probably Calc III) this fall. My plan is to take the class during school by biking to the university then returning for my high school classes. To do this, I am going to need to have 3 free periods during the day.</p>

<p>I wanted to take double history, but my father advised me against it considering that I’ll have soccer, college applications, and my other ec’s. I</p>

<p>s this senior course load, considering that Calc III is a university class, too light for schools like MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, etc.?</p>

<p>AP US Gov
AP Chem (double period)
AP Spanish
AP English Lang
Calc III at local university
gym</p>

<p>For the spring, I would be adding AP Psych and Honors Health.</p>

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<p>That’s a perfectly adequate schedule for any college.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot</p>

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<p>If you did well at your other classes, then that’s a pretty nice courseload. The fact that you’re going outside your system to take classes at the university means your load can be a bit lighter in-school (though yours isn’t that light by any means). Furthermore, you’d still be taking 6 classes, which is a typical high school schedule (many schools won’t even let you take mroe than 6 classes). Your counselors will let the universities know that you took the most rigorous courses your school had to offer, and then some.</p>