Use this Ivy Ready page in junior year or the rise into senior year, before the senior schedule is final. In 5 to 15 minutes you name the planned senior courses, mark a provisional stance, and copy the grid. Your student leads the course choice; you help check workload, school requirements, and questions to bring to the counselor. Entries on this page are temporary. They are not saved after you leave or reload.
Use this worksheet to plan the upcoming senior schedule, not to decide whether a student should drop a current course. Recent performance can still inform next year's choices. It is also not the junior-year on-track checklist: leave testing windows, recommenders, and the family calendar there.
| This worksheet | Not this worksheet |
|---|---|
| A filled grid of the upcoming senior-year schedule, used before the school locks the courses. Recent performance can inform that plan. | A verdict that tells a student to drop a current course. |
| You leave with named courses, one provisional stance each, and the household facts you watched. | You take the schedule. Who owns each task lives on the responsibility map. |
No provisional stance marked yet
Copy stays off until at least one planned course has a name and a provisional stance. Parent-watched marks stay in the note. They do not turn Copy on by themselves.
Mark the planned senior courses
Write the course your student is planning for senior year. Keep proposed level means the planned course stays at the level written. Compare another course or level means look at a different course or a different level of this subject before the schedule is final. Discuss with counselor before finalizing means this row still needs school input. These stances are about the class, not about cutting an activity. Graduation rules are school-specific.
Entries on this page are temporary. They are not saved after you leave or reload.
Before you mark a stance
Consider the facts below. More AP courses are not the goal. Activities, sleep, and other commitments are things to consider, not a stance that means drop the club.
- Graduation and prerequisite requirements
- Preparation for the next course in the sequence
- Balance across core subjects
- The student's interests
- Current preparation and recent performance
- Likely total academic workload
- Activities, sleep, and other commitments
- Entrance expectations of schools or programs actually under consideration
- Counselor input when the choice is unclear
Planned senior course 1
Planned senior course 2
Planned senior course 3
Planned senior course 4
Add another planned senior course. There is no fixed maximum.
Copy the grid
Paste this into a shared note. Copy turns on when at least one named course has a provisional stance. Entries on this page are temporary. They are not saved after you leave or reload.
If junior-year checkpoints are still open, return to the junior-year on-track checklist. For a hosted conversation about the year, see parent college application support. For the math choice specifically, see calculus vs statistics in senior year.