As you all might now, my daughter is 12 and in all advanced classes. I want to know if she doesn’t take AP classes in high school will she get into TCU’s nursing program or Milligan’s premed program.
Colleges don’t look at middle school classes unless it’s for credit (i.e. Alg 1/Geometry or any language in CA) and 90% of the time they don’t ask for grades. Worry about this when she actually gets to high school. She’s 12. College admissions standards will change by the time she starts applying.
@basedchem , notice I said AP classes in high school. Neither of us like the way AP classes are tested and how they are graded. She will not have the most rigorous schedule which is why I asked about college admissions.
What I’ve learned from reading in CC is that she should take the most rigorous courses available at her high school that she can do well in. Take the PSAT and the SAT/ACT and then at that point, figure out which colleges/universities in your price range have programs she likes and that she could be admitted to.
If her high school doesn’t offer AP classes, she doesn’t need to take them to get into any program at any college or university. If they offer them and she takes none, it could hurt her chances at some selective colleges or universities. If her school offers a long list of them, she doesn’t need to take all of them, just a few (enough that it doesn’t look like she took easy classes just for high grades, admissions people want to see that kids have challenged themselves).
Hopefully that is helpful.
@mom2twogirls , are TCU and Milligan selective?
I’m not the expert many people on CC are. I think you need to look at their common data sets and see what information is there. What percentage of applicants are accepted, for example. I believe it also shows what is important for admissions. Not all rank rigorous course loads as important, for example.
The best place to go for questions regarding academics is your child’s guidance counselor as they know far more about your child and probably more about colleges than anyone on here. There are also parents fourms as well as fourms for specific colleges that might be more of use to you. Regardless, I’ll try my best to help.
For starters I’d consider TCU and Milligans moderately selective, TCU more so. To be competitive, I’d say your daughter should take at least a few APs throughout high school, probably in junior and senior year, but not the crazy amount that the students aiming at Havard do. If she doesn’t take them, it will likely hurt her chances. Colleges want to see students who are challenging themselves. I’m definatley not an expert in those two schools, so don’t take it too seriously, but that would be my suggestion.
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