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High School Classes for Engineering Help?
I am a sophomore right now and making a schedule for next year. So right now I am stuck on whether or not I should take MC chemistry (a college course) my junior year. I have all honors classes and also chemistry honors this year. Next year I will be taking physics honors and trigonometry honors. I want to go into engineering or something with science. (electrical, aerospace, chemical, or astronomy so far) I checked out the recommended high school classes to take for an engineering college including MIT, and they said high school bio, chem, physics, and calculus. So is it really worth taking MC chemistry junior year, and possibly lowering my GPA? The teacher doesn't teach much (I had her this year) so that's another reason I don't know to take it. What are the benefits of taking MC chem junior year instead of senior year? I come home late from practice, so I feel like I won't have time for another hard class, I want to concentrate on the other subjects and get a high GPA, since that's important. So my other options are MC humanities or MC accounting? I will probably take MC Chem or MC physics my senior year if not this year, as well as calculus. So what should I do? And why are some people going saying it is better to take MC chem junior year, even though the best colleges say to just take normal classes?
I have take all honors classes and all of them I have A to A+. I am thinking more of PSU, as a good college for me, although MIT be great to get into.
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- screwyminusLv 58 years ago
I'm not quite sure what MC is, but I'm going to assume it's equivalent to AP/IB (since that's what it sounds like you are describing).
Colleges, especially top-tier ones, want applicants to have the most rigorous schedule and excel in it. You want a high unweighted GPA AND an extremely strong course load for MIT. You should be getting all A's (maybe a couple of B's), and be especially strong in Physics, Calculus, Chemistry, etc. if you want to go into engineering.
Most colleges will not have a lot of required courses for applicants, since the more requirements they have, the less number of people will apply, causing their selectivity to go down. Hence the reason they say it's okay to just take "normal" classes. I would say you will definitely need to stand out as a stellar student for MIT though; there are tons of highly-qualified people who get rejected. Just google "rejected to MIT".
Honestly, if you cannot handle a rigorous schedule in high school, then it's very likely you will not succeed at MIT. College is only going to be harder that high school, especially if you go to one that's known for its academics.
