What do you do If your school Doesn't offer Honours /AP classes
I live in south Africa and am a Dual Athlete in Football /soccer and a 100m sprinter I am nationally recognized in both but at the end of the day I want to Apply to a school Like Stanford and my academics weigh in and I currently go to a prestigious Boys school in South Africa but my school only offers two AP classes and I take one of the two, AP English, and when i put my statistics in the chances simmulator i get like a little over 15% chance to get accepted. So my question is what do I do and does Stanford take my leadership roles, personal projects, and comm service into account
Yes, Standford University takes all those things into consideration but they are getting applications from students who have started taking APs at least by sophomore year. Unfortunately, I think your chances of getting in top schools like Standford are slim even if you begin taking more advanced classes. One thought I have is that some school applications have a section where you can explain something-maybe you could use that space to politely share your school offered only 2 AP classes. Or, maybe you will be able to transfer into Standford? I'm not sure how Standford does transferring, but normally, the requirements for first-year students are higher than that for transfer students.
I am not sure how it works in South Africa, but here in the US we have community colleges. It is pretty easy to enroll in classes with the local community college- this is called dual enrollment. DE classes are considered advanced, another option besides AP/honors. I cannot take AP so I am taking 2 DE classes rn and will take 8-10 next year.
I hope some of this is helpful and please lmk if you have any questions!
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