Skip to main content
Main Menu Toggle

Selection Process for AP & Selective Electives

(some electives have a separate application that is required.  Refer to course selection survey to see which courses require a separate application.) 

1. Students apply via Naviance portal, prioritizing each of their Course selections.

2. All 10th and 11th grade students will meet with their guidance counselors, to review all course selections to ensure that choices are aligned with post-secondary school career and pre-major requirements.

3. Teachers will provide a Teacher Recommendation Score within each Subject Area, as described in the Teacher Recommendation Rubrics section of this webpage.

4. Students are ranked within each subject area course for which they applied for, based upon the formulas presented in the individual course criteria displayed for each subject area (English, Russian, History, Science and Math) on the navigation panel to the right. 

5. The Selection Process is designed to match students based on their Subject Rank Scores and how they ranked individual subject area courses. (Ex. Subject Areas: Science; AP Science Courses: AP Biology and AP Chemistry)
 
  • Acceptance to a Subject Course is based first on the student’s Subject Area Rank score, then on the priority order in which the student placed the respective Subject Area Course (Ex. AP Biology 1st and AP Chemistry 2nd) and then based upon Seat Availability. 
  • The student with the highest rank is placed in his/ her first Course within the respective Subject Area. 
  • Going down the list from the highest score, each student, in turn, is placed in his/her highest prioritized Subject Course (Ex. AP Biology, AP Chemistry), within each Subject Area (Ex. Science), in which seats are still available. Therefore, if all the seats in the student’s first-choice Subject Course have been offered to students who scored higher, he/she is placed in his/her second-choice Subject Course if seats are available, and so on. This process continues until there are no seats available in any of the Subject Area Courses.
 
6. The specific courses for which a student will be programmed for is / are based upon the total allowable # of AP courses as determined by their Guidance Counselor Course Interview, and the prioritization of Subject Courses, as completed in in their Course Selection Survey.
 
7. AP & Elective request forms will be completed on Naviance in February. From March to May, each 10th and 11th grade student will meet with their counselor to review their application.