Does west point look at both weighted and unweighted GPA?
I took honors math courses only for my first three years, everything else in "basic" placement, and maintained a 3.9 gpa for that time.
This year, I actually chose the classes I liked, and ended up taking BC Calculus, AP Physics, AP English, AP Economics, AP Computer Science, and my other required courses. All of these are year-long classes, too. I would not recommend taking this course of action. Your sleep patterns will suffer. Your grades will drop. Maybe the weighting can make up for it, but I would not suggest it. Without weighting, my gpa is cumulatively now something akin to 3.75.
Don't go as crazy as I did senior year. Take at max two or three APs at a time, and keep your GPA up elsewhere. I don't think my class selection had that huge of an impact on my admissions decision, so take a couple of honors/AP, but make sure you stay active in extracirriculars and sports and stuff like that.
I took honors math courses only for my first three years, everything else in "basic" placement, and maintained a 3.9 gpa for that time.
This year, I actually chose the classes I liked, and ended up taking BC Calculus, AP Physics, AP English, AP Economics, AP Computer Science, and my other required courses. All of these are year-long classes, too. I would not recommend taking this course of action. Your sleep patterns will suffer. Your grades will drop. Maybe the weighting can make up for it, but I would not suggest it. Without weighting, my gpa is cumulatively now something akin to 3.75.
Don't go as crazy as I did senior year. Take at max two or three APs at a time, and keep your GPA up elsewhere. I don't think my class selection had that huge of an impact on my admissions decision, so take a couple of honors/AP, but make sure you stay active in extracirriculars and sports and stuff like that.