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[quote=Anonymous]A few thoughts.

My first thought is that right now you're making decisions for 9th grade.  Engineering programs are going to expect students to have all 3 core sciences, and almost all state graduation requirements include a life science.  So, regardless of what will be available in future years, Honors Bio is the place for her to start, assuming that's the sequence at her high school.  The same is true for whatever is the highest math available for her this year.  The choices for this year are obvious.

My next thought is what colleges mean when they say they evaluate kids in the context of their environment.  The high school will send a school profile that shows what was available to them.

At the same time, colleges value kids who seek out opportunities to go beyond their environment.  So, if she figures out a way to do online dual enrollment, for example and passes Calc 1 and Calc 2 in senior year, and takes the first year of college physics, she'll look better than a kid who covered the same content with Calc BC and Physics C in a high school that offers them.  This is just one example. She will have lots of options for showing she can go beyond what is available to her.   Without knowing what school district she's in, and your family resources, I can't provide specific options, and it's too early anyway but there will be plenty of them!

Finally, I'll point out that options change.  What they offer this year may not be what they will offer down the road.  It may be that she decides to be the force that brings change to her high school!  [/quote]

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