Should I drop my Cisco Program if I want to be a lawyer?

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<p>Hello, I’m a freshman in hs, and we received our course selection sheets last week(due tomorrow). I’ve been thinking about whether I should drop my Cisco STI(Science, Tech, Industry) program so that I can take regular high school classes my junior and senior year that are more relevant to the career I want, which is to become a lawyer; so like US Gov’t & Politics AP, etc. Junior year I will have 2 Cisco classes & senior year I will have 4 of them. So dropping the program would give me some room to take two APs in science or math. However, the Cisco classes will give me two certifications, the CCNA & CCNP after I take the test. After I graduate hs, I want to be accepted into an Ivy League school such as Harvard, or a prestigious academy such as The Naval Academy. But they only accept the best, and I want to get there.</p>

<p>Right now, I have straight As and my GPA is a 4.2,but I’m trying to raise it by taking harder classes.
I’ve been reading about how colleges love to accept people who are unique, so will being Cisco Certified help me out?</p>

<p>Here are my classes for next year:</p>

<p>English II Honors
Geometry Honors
AP US History
Biology Honors
Chemistry Honors
French II
Cisco IT Essentials
Swimming & Conditioning I</p>

<p>Will the Cisco program affect my chances of getting into colleges like Harvard to become a lawyer?</p>

<p>**The Cisco program wasn’t a program that anyone can join. You would have to apply in the 8th grade and grades/teacher reccomendations would affect your chances of getting in. As to what I’ve been told, that program is extremely competitive to get into & its challenging.</p>

<p>Please help & Thanks</p>

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<p>My son is also in 9th grade now and I just saw these discussions, so hopefully one of you guys who responded earlier can help me out also.
My son will be a sophomore next year and this is his schedule for 10th grade. His GPA is now 4.74 as freshman.
AP World History
AP Biology
H Pre cal
H Chem
H language
H English lit
and as an elective their school signed him up for CISCO Entry level as an elective. This will be the only year that he will have CISCO as an elective, it is not a program so he wont be taking it in 11th or 12th grade. . Since he is in an engineering focus group it was suggested to take this elective. He is not sure what type of engineering but likes biology and chemistry more so perhaps bio-engineering or chemical engineering. His goal is to get into one of those highly selective colleges such as Johns Hopkins or Stanford . Since rigor is what they like to see, would it better if he takes an AP, such as AP environmental science or APpsychology instead of the Cisco, as an elective. He does not like psychology either so whether CISCO or psychology will make no difference to him. Is it impressive to see CISCO certification on college application. THANK yOU ALL.</p>