Will Taking An Independent Study Stregthen Your Transcript?

runawaywithme
Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:29:28 +0000

Hi,
So I am a sophomore and I a little disappointed with my 10th grade schedule. My school does not offer a lot of honors classes, so there are no advanced courses offered in the subjects I do particularly well in, like Latin, English, history(the humanities, basically). The only advanced courses offered to my grade level are AP Physics, for those that did well in physics from freshman year and math at the honors level. Unfortunatley, math and science happened to be my weakest last year as a freshman, so there were not any AP’s or honors courses offered to me this year. I have a unique background, which contributed to my not doing so well in math and science freshman year, so I can easily explain that to colleges, but I really want to make my 10th grade schedule as strong as possible. So, since I am really strong in Latin, I was thinking to do an Independent in it this year. I am only in second year Latin (Latin 2) but I have a strong A in the class so would I was thinking to take Latin 2 and also do an independent study in Latin 3. If I did that, I would be able to take AP Latin Vergil in my junior year and AP Latin Literature in my senior year. Oh and I forgot to mention, I take two languages: Latin and Spanish. So, would taking the Independent Study in Latin 3 in addition to all my other courses boost me up a bit, or would that not even really help at all?

I’d appreciate what you guys think. Feel free to PM me and I can share more about my course load and stuff.

Thanks a million in advance.