How important is senior course rigor

[Heatherg21]

Take what you can. My daughter felt disadvantaged to not have access to AP or honors classes. They just simply were not offered at her high school.

AP not offered at our son’s school and he did honors dual credit. Served him well.

 

[momoftwo]

From my understanding, sometimes CGAS may be offered to kids when they have a strong application, but they have not had the option to take AP/Honors courses. They may be offered CGAS to give them the chance to show that they can handle the higher level STEM classes. A student in this situation would be given different consideration from a student that simply chose not to take the upper level courses when they were available to them.

Right- it all was fine. She is at SS now!

 

[tommytictoc]

I appreciate all your advice. Unfortunately I already took physics honors last year however I do like the idea of taking an easier English class and going with physics. Thanks for the help!!!

My sons (one a CGA grad. and another applying) have crazy advanced schedules and both loved/love English. They ended up going with regular English classes and loading up on the STEM classes. There simply was not enough time in the day and needed to perform well for activites after school too. My eldest won awards at the Academy for writing and the youngest aced the ACT for writing. It all comes down to time, efficiently using it to keep advancing, being best prepared for next year when the school year will get really crazy. Swab Summer is a cake walk compared to the first year at the Academy.