<p>Okay, so I decided to self-study AP Calculus AB my sophomore year (this year) rather than take it my junior year which has put me in a place where I have a big choice to make.</p>
<p>I go to a small school so we don’t have many AP course options, just chemistry and caluclus. I have gone far beyond what anyone in my school has, so I am running out of course options. So I have 2 choices, and I am leaning towards option 2, but I am not sure.</p>
<p>-Option 1: I can stay at my school and take all the Honors courses that they have. Doing this my GPA would shoot above a 4.0 and I would certainly be in the top 3 of my class if not #1.</p>
<p>-Option 2: I could do a post-secondary program and take the majority of my courses at my local private university. Not a community college. The benefit to this is that I would be able to get even farther ahead since college courses are done over a semester instead of a year. The downside is that my school refuses to put weight on these courses. If I took them i would probably drop down to about #10 in my class rank.</p>
<p>I really want to do option 2 because I would get a much higher level of education. I would be able to have calculus based physics, higher level math rather than stats, and a whole lot of college credit when I graduate. Several colleges I want to go to (other than my reach schools) require class rank for good scholarships. For example, OSU says that for both the Emminence and the Maximus scholarships you need to be ranked in the top 3% of your class. I hate this because I feel that I am being penalized for taking more rigorous courses.</p>