Senior Schedule Help and Reassurance

collegemom3717
Fri, 13 May 2022 19:13:07 +0000

You can do some of this homework for yourself. For example, Wellesley says:

[quote]entering students normally have completed four years of college preparatory studies in secondary school that include training in clear and coherent writing and in interpreting literature; history; training in the principles of mathematics (typically four years); competence in at least one foreign language, ancient or modern (usually four years of study); and experience in at least two laboratory sciences.

Students planning to concentrate in mathematics, premedical studies, or natural sciences are urged to elect additional courses in mathematics and science in secondary school and to complete mathematics coursework through pre-calculus. Students planning to concentrate in language or literature are urged to study a modern foreign language and Latin or Greek.

(FAQ | Wellesley College)

In general, the type of schools you are considering assume 4 years each of English, Social Studies (incl History), Math, a (lab) Science, and 3/4 years (or to a given level) of Foreign Language.

Missing any one of those is not necessarily a deal breaker, but the more you are missing the more of a disadvantage.

In the collegekids schools there was no way to take 9 classes (6 was the max), so I don’t know if the norm (much less realistic) in your school is 9. Is summer school a possibility for you?