Trying for "Most Rigorous" but what about scheduling issues?

Techno13
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:25:38 +0000

S23 (a junior this fall), definitely wants a rigorous schedule and pays attention to grades and GPA. But his school’s scheduling is routinely just awful. How attuned and understanding are Adcoms to this problem?

He attends a large decent public CA high school and is hoping to attend a top public flagship, likely OOS. He currently has scheduled AP Stats, AP Bio, AP Chem, and APUSH plus Latin 3 and Photography. He can only take 4 APs max each year at his school. He was hoping for Honors English either has to drop AP Stats or take regular English b/c of a conflict. Stats in the only math class he hasn’t already taken and he is interested Economics or Finance in College (and has a strong interest in science and technology). AP Stats is more important right? He can hopefully still take AP Lang next year. So frustrating.

(Note: Next year’s course request will probably be: AP Lang, AP Micro and Macro, AP Comp Sci (if they can hire a teacher), AP Government or Civics, AP Latin, Honors Physics, Photography).