I received some pamphlets and brochures from several schools that I want to apply to, but many of them said that they usually consider a physics class a prerequisite for admission. My school has basically 0 funding and not a lot of teachers (I think our ratio of faculty-to-student is like 21:1) so we do not have physics, along with several other classes, such as AP Government, AP Statistics, AP Chem, AP Western Civ, etc. We also only have Spanish and German for language; I took German I and II, but then the class was cancelled, so I only have my 2 years of foreign language. I could not receive entry to a Spanish class.
The question is: will schools consider me less desirable because I don’t have access to many of the courses they look for in a strong candidate? Will they think, “Oh, she should’ve changed to a better school” (I can’t because of transport reasons) or think, “She should have looked for a course at her local college to take” (which would not have been financially plausible)? I don’t want to appear as a weak candidate because my school has poor funding and keeps cancelling classes.