Juniors: its time to plan your senior year class schedule. Don't believe that old myth that senior year doesn't count for college admissions. Senior year counts, especially at highly competitive colleges. The confusion is because the manner in which senior year counts for college admission is different than the way grades 9-11 count.
It is true that during the application process colleges will not know your senior year grades. However, they will know what you are taking. If you aren't taking a more academically rigorous schedule of classes than you did in your junior year, you are informing your college that you are a slacker. Competitive colleges don't want slackers! Competitive colleges would rather accept a student who has lower grades but keeps pushing through harder and harder classes because that student is demonstrating that he/she is willing to work.
Make sure your senior year classes are challenging. Take some community college classes if your high school doesn't have anything rigorous to offer.
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