A few days ago

gangag

AP/Honors courses and Community College Courses Question?

Hi!

I’m currently a junior at a public high school in California, and as of now, I’m interested in applying to UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCSD, and UCLA.

I was just wondering if my AP/honors courseload from 10th to 12th grade is challenging. Should I think of adding another AP or honors course to my 11th grade schedule, or is my schedule fine as it is?

10th grade

– AP Computer Science AB

– Chemistry Honors

11th grade

– AP Biology

– Spanish 4 Honors

– Precalculus Honors

12th grade

– AP Spanish

– AP Calculus BC

– AP English Literature

– AP Chemistry

– AP US Government

I’m also taking a physics course at a local community college, and will probably take two more courses in the remaining trimesters. Does taking community college courses boost the strength/rigorousness of one’s high school courseload? What’re the benefits of taking those courses?

Thanks for your help!

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A few days ago

Adam J

Favorite Answer

That should be a good, competitive course load.

For the record I took a course load very much like that in HS.

1) It damn near killed me, especially my senior year.

2) I got a middling high GPA (I’m a bit lazy and not too good at math) and made it into UCSC, UCSD, and UCSB even with a few Cs on my transcript. I didn’t make it into Cal, but I had a number of friends who took the same classes I did but who were good at math/more studious than I was and did make it in. I didn’t apply to UCLA but don’t think its harder to get into than Cal.

Also to plug my own school I wound up at Santa Cruz, which really is quite good and incredibly scenic, and I’m going to be starting a masters at the London School of Economics in October, so it is possible to go from there to a good grad school. Worth checking out.

Anyway, good luck.

A few days ago

Anonymous

Those are quite a lot of AP courses. But I believe that you and anyone else who is reading this, can do it. It is not that hard. AP classes feel like college classes expect for the campus and the expensive tuition bill.

The main benefit is if you pass the AP exam, you can possibly skip 1 year of college. That can be over $40,000 in savings!!!

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A few days ago

georgiegirl422

if you wanted to add AP US History to your 11th grade year, that is a very good class to take. other than that, you seem to be set.

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AP/Honors courses and Community College Courses Question?

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