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[quote=Anonymous]A different perspective here -

My kid was a magnet STEM student and as a rising 9th grader he wanted to chart out his schedule for the 4 years of HS. The summer before HS, he met his school advisor who gave some great advice.  Now, this was the assigned school advisor and not the magnet advisor.  He gave advice from the perspective of college admissions. Here was his advice regarding "Health".

1) It is great to build in one easy class that is required for graduation each year along with hard classes.  It could be Art or PE etc. It shows that the student can balance the work load and can be successful in college.

2) Colleges only see grades and courses of the student from 9th - 11th in the student application. Therefore, make sure that you have higher weighted and impressive subjects from 9th to 11th grade on your transcripts showing a clear upwards trajectory.  Health does not add anything to your transcript and even if your public school makes it an "Honors" class, it gets discarded when the college recalculates your GPA.  If you can take an interesting weighted impressive elective instead of Health, your GPA improves.

3) Should you be taking Health during the summer?  The counselor advised that my son builds up his EC, scholastic  and volunteering profile during the summers so that he can write about them in his college admission. That is a better use of the summer than wasting it on Health.   The benefit of this was not only did the summer activities gave him something to write for his ec activities, but also, he accumulated enough service hours to apply early to many honors societies that also have a service component  (must have x number of service hours accumulated during HS years, to apply in xyz Honors society).

4) Once you get into college, use a semester (or 2) to finish your health requirement in 12th grade. [/quote]

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