blue magic the other problem we're running into with ds' high school schedule is not enough elective options. This is in one way related to the GPA gotcha - everything is so cookie-cutter in high school - the race for the perfect gap, the insistence that all students take the same basic set of required courses. My ds' high school plan would be awesome if he was interested in pursuing language arts and history in post-secondary, but he wants to pursue STEM and has no room to add extra STEM classes. He wants to challenge himself, wants to study what he is most interested in and that will relate to his future university work, all things that should look good to a university when he applies... but the message from his high school is worry about grades over course content and don't stray from the cookie cutter path.
Sorry, venting a bit there. Perhaps I'lll be back to erase this last reply lol.
polarbear
Even after sophomore year? Sorry to hear that. My son has a fair amount of room in his schedule. Well if band didn't take up two classes. He doesn't have to take any social studies next year. Officially he only HAS to take English, since he will have passed all the science/math requirements by then. By junior year you are allowed to double up in science.
