DS is a junior and taking AP Chem, APLAC, APUSH, AP CS at school along with MVC at community college through our school’s dual enrollment. He is also registered for Spanish 3 at school currently but insisting on taking it from UC Scout to save on time. He has heard that Spanish 3 is a slow moving class with busy homework and he feels he can do it from UC Scout and save time for his other passions - mainly STEM competitions.
If he does that he will be left with only 4 classes on school transcript. Spanish 3 from UC Scout will show up on the school transcript but under a separate section. Transcript for MVC from community college will be separate. So we are wondering if it is actually a big deal to not do Spanish 3 at school and do only 4 classes at school.
My two cents is it is worth thinking about what signals this may send about what sorts of colleges would be a best fit for this student. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but a student who is trying to minimize their time spent studying other languages and cultures, and apparently doing no arts electives, so they can focus more on STEM classes and STEM competitions, may be exactly what some colleges are looking for, not so much what other colleges are looking for.
So in that sense following this plan potentially may have important consequences, but that doesn’t mean it is wrong. It is just that these choices are not necessarily optimal for all colleges.
What does the guidance counselor say? If the guidance team says his schedule will tick the “most rigorous box”, and he’s fulfilled all the graduation requirements (no PE? Health?) then it’s fine even if it looks light (but it’s not). If you get pushback from his guidance counselor, it might be worth reconsidering.
What does the guidance counselor say? If the guidance team says his schedule will tick the “most rigorous box”, and he’s fulfilled all the graduation requirements (no PE? Health?) then it’s fine even if it looks light (but it’s not). If you get pushback from his guidance counselor, it might be worth reconsidering.
Talking today to get their opinion. He did PE as freshman and will take again as senior.
My two cents is it is worth thinking about what signals this may send about what sorts of colleges would be a best fit for this student.
Very nicely said!
DS would have wanted to take even STEM classes from outside but that’s not an option because of the labs.
For Spanish, he even proposed to us taking both Spanish 3 and Spanish 4 outside and still finish up in less time. Not sure if school counselor would approve that so we were thinking that he could maybe do Spanish 3 as junior and Spanish 4 in senior year which would be an extra course but he is happy doing that as long as he can do it on his own pace.
but that’s not an option because of the labs.