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My name is Sarah Harbor sin and this is the admissions' revolution today I'm going to be talking about the high school transcript your high school transcript is the most important piece of your college application and that is because you've been spending the most time going to school and working hard but also how well you do in high school is actually the best indicator of how you will do in college, so it is a better indicator than any standardized tests that you can take when you're thinking about what classes to take and what to do in high school the rule of thumb is that colleges want to see that you are taking the most challenging courses that you can handle they want to see that you are stretching yourself academically and trying to do that for all four years, so they're not only looking at the grades that you're getting their looking at the courses the rigor of your curriculum, so you want to try to take those advanced level classes that are offered at your high school and every high school has a different term for them sometimes it's honors sometimes it's fit advanced placement courses sometimes it's even the international baccalaureate program, but you want to try to take those challenging courses if you can handle them when it comes to what the colleges are looking for beyond the rigor and the grades when it comes down to it as much as colleges love unconventional thinkers when it comes to your curriculum they are looking for a very conventional very traditional course Lobe they want to see that you're taking first and foremost the five academic subject matters math science English foreign language and history courses, and they want you to try to take all five academic subject matters for all four years if you can handle it if you want to take some elective courses in high school or music or art you should do that you just don't want to take them in place of one of those five major academic subject matters here's an example let's say that you are interested in majoring in business in college, and you're applying to four-year business programs, and you get to senior year you have a choice, and you can take a business elective course let's say in finance or AP Calculus Advanced Placement calculus hands down you want to take Advanced Placement calculus it carries much more weight than a business elective class in high school, and also it's going to be better preparation for your first year of college even in that business program when it comes to senior year colleges are going to see what classes you're taking, and they're usually going to see some form of senior year grades before they make a decision on your application, so you want to continue to stretch yourself and continue to do well your senior year and the last thing that I'll mention it's something that my dad used to say to me all the time when I was growing up especially when I would get a little lazy he would say Sarah the pursuit of excellence for words but what they mean is...