Do colleges look at honors or only AP classes?

Question

I am in Honors English and was wondering whether there is a weighted GPA benefit or if it's only for AP classes?

I feel as if I would do SO much better in regular english and don't know if I should drop this class after first semester. I'm not getting any better in that class and it's giving me way too much stress. Will it look bad on my transcript if I drop this class and move to regular English second semester?

Answer 1

No it won't look bad. I had honors english in high school, but only took it because the teacher was easier than the regular teacher. Unless you're applying to Harvard, Yale, or something, the college isn't going to look at whether you had honors or AP. The main benefit of AP is college credit and a higher GPA scale (you can earn 5.0 points instead of 4.0 points for an A). If it's causing that much stress, i'd move to regular English and just focus on getting the best GPA I could.

Answer 2

Colleges look at AP/Honors classes the same way--you're smart enough to take advanced classes in high school and you do well. That speaks a lot. The only difference is that AP classes count for gen ed classes like English, history, math, etc.

My advice? If you are not going to do well in this English class, withdraw now while you still get your money back. You can even still join an open class if you like.

Personally to save money I suggest taking English through a community college over the summer. Usually it's less intensive, less expensive, AND the hours transfer.

Answer 3

They look at How many As you have

Answer 4

All the honors and AP classes look good on a transcript, but only AP Classes have the advantage of getting you out of some college classes. If you take the placement tests and score high enough (each college accepts different scores) you can get credit in college. Honors classes do nothing as far as college credit.

Answer 5

Yes colleges do look at your classes and the ranking on how hard they are.. But if you move to a normal english class then at least they will see that you care about your grades and you decided to switch so that you would get better grades. So they have two ways of looking at it

Answer 6

Actually it depends. some colleges don't look at some AP classes, but all schools look at honors. i recommend researching on the schools you want to go to and find out what AP classes they accept.

Answer 7

of course colleges look at honor and ap classes. colleges check only for semester grade...so keep up the work for the semester.

Answer 8

colleges look at lots of things... extra curricular activities, gpa, the difficulty of classes you took, if you volunteered, played any sports... stuff like that... college isn't going to reject you or accept you just because you took AP or honors classes... there's a whole bunch of factors in that. also, they look at you SAT and/or ACT scores... if you do well on those, it doesn't really matter if you were in honors classes

Answer 9

NO NO NO i was worried to because a guy from chapel hill came to our school and was all "colleges are not even going to look at you without AP classes" its not true most colleges look at your grades and extra ciriculars

Answer 10

They look at everything. All this AP makes schools look better so the gudance counselors push it big time. Be honest to yourself..push yourself, and take the appropriate class.