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That's right, our school does not offer ANY honors classes. That's probably because we're too small--we only have something like 120-140 students per grade level. Do you think that this will affect my application to prospective colleges? Will they understand the situation, considering that I'm taking an AP class, an IB class, and one self-study AP in my sophomore year?

By Altsuperhero (Altsuperhero) on Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 11:41 am: Edit

that's funny - our school also has about 120-140 students per grade level

however, we have almost all honors and ap classes; in fact, there are about 80 students taking ap us history (yes, that's more than 50% of the grade)

thus, honors classes are the equivalent of regular classes; our school loves to inflate everything

By Lightspeedoo7 (Lightspeedoo7) on Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 05:03 pm: Edit

There are less than 200 in my class and there are three available AP/Honors classes. Even if there are no advanced classes if you take the most difficult course load and do well it reflects very good to colleges.

By Oasis (Oasis) on Monday, March 01, 2004 - 09:05 am: Edit

Only 140-150 per grade? We only have around 50....all of are classes are Honors though.

By Bionuker (Bionuker) on Monday, March 01, 2004 - 04:38 pm: Edit

ur screwed, honor clasees look better than regular, colleges won't look if ur school offeres it or not, they will see ur applicationa and laugh

jk, abouth the laughing part not anything else

By Poison_Ivy (Poison_Ivy) on Monday, March 01, 2004 - 05:15 pm: Edit

go to a college community and take some classes there. and another thing, it makes no sense about having IB and AP but no honors. isn't suppose to be the other way around

By Anothersuitcase (Anothersuitcase) on Monday, March 01, 2004 - 05:50 pm: Edit

They won't hold it against you if your school doesn't offer them. Your school's profile (which your guidance counselor attaches to your application) should make it clear that your school offers no honors classes. If it doesn't specify that, talk to your guidance counselor to see if they can update it.

By Glowingamy (Glowingamy) on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 12:11 am: Edit

My father's school was run by an oil mine. Then the oil mine went bankrupt and by the beginning of ninth grade he had taken every available course in school. He did loads of independent study and got into Harvard. Good luck!

By Conker (Conker) on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 06:33 am: Edit

I don't think all of you understand the situation. Our school offers about 15-20 AP courses and another 15-20 IB courses. I don't know of another school that offers AP and IB together, so I would suppose that our school offers the more college level courses. The only problem is that there aren't any honors classes. Everything's considered "regular" here. Our standard English 10 classes are about the equivalent of some of your AP English classes. But we just don't get the name.

By Farrahday (Farrahday) on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 09:13 am: Edit

If your school is really that good, colleges will know its name. Just take the AP/IB classes you're interested in and you'll be fine.

By Conker (Conker) on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 07:38 am: Edit

Our school is not that good. In fact, I think it sucks. But we're an international school. It is true that our classes are the equivalent of some of your AP English classes, but I think that's due more to the pitifulness of some of your AP classes. I honestly cannot believe some of you are still reading Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, Huck Finn, and Catcher of the Rye in an AP class. Those books were specifically chosen for our English 10 class because of the high number of ESOL students.

By Crypto86 (Crypto86) on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 11:28 am: Edit

We have 82 in our grade and wehave tons of honors and AP classes.

By Fallentear04 (Fallentear04) on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 03:23 pm: Edit

thats a great way to make friends.

By Ndcountrygirl (Ndcountrygirl) on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 12:07 am: Edit

colleges understand what your school does/doesnt offer or how they grade. Have your guidance counselor send a letter with apps if you ever want to clarify the situation.

Hey I win for fewest in class....25 baby!