Senior Schedule Help and Reassurance

Eve5
Fri, 13 May 2022 18:37:33 +0000

I’m a rising senior at a tiny school in rural PA and I need some help with my schedule. There’s one tiny aspect that I can’t get out of my mind and I just want to make sure that this isn’t a deal-breaker for top LACs. My school is a regular charter school that’s completely open-curriculum (there are graduation requirements to abide by, but they aren’t enforced by counselors every grade; i.e. it doesn’t matter if you fulfill them in 9th grade or 12th). It’s also notoriously bad with advising so as an incoming freshman, I was just under the impression that I could take whatever I wanted and be fine. This attitude changed this year when I realized that my junior year was incredibly not rigorous because I mainly took math classes and electives (but surprisingly all the right science classes). I couldn’t fit in those AP classes that juniors/seniors usually took because those classes have prereqs. My school has 5 APs and I can take AP Calc BC and Chem my senior year, and I convinced my counselor to let me take AP Gov because I’m interested in majoring in political science but it was under the condition that I take regular US History (a “sophomore” class) alongside it because that’s a grad requirement. I also need to catch up on my English credits by taking a couple of semester core classes. All in all, I’m looking at 9 (half of which are regular or honors) classes my senior year just because I was so screwed in my advising department. I tried asking my counselor about the possibility of taking dual-enrollment classes during the summer or fall year and he said those wouldn’t count on my high school transcript. Everything else is ok - I have my 3 years of foreign language, standardized tests, and ecs. How bad of a deal breaker is this for schools like Haverford, Smith, Wellesley, etc.? What about GWU or AU?