Solid High School Course Plan? Areas for Improvement? [high school in Ontario, Canada]

gwnorth
Fri, 09 May 2025 16:26:08 +0000

Many (most?) Ontario high schools run on a 2 semester system so students would typically take MHF 4U - Advanced Functions (pre-Calc) in first semester of grade 12, and MCV 4U - Calculus and Vectors, in 2nd semester. A few years ago they rejigged the curriculum though and Advanced Functions and Calculus & Vectors can now be taken concurrently (though most students don’t).

My question to you though is since US colleges have application dates before the OP will have final marks for their first semester courses are complete (final grades are released in February but they will have midterm marks), and since they will not be writing AP exams until May of their senior year, will there be any benefit to them to taking AP courses when applying to US colleges?