What English courses should I take to prepare for college?

What English courses should I take to prepare for college?

As many as you can. English courses and writing is one of the key components to help you get into university. Certainly on just about any application today you have to write essays. There are essays required, long ones, short ones, word counts, sometimes they just want bullets and words. But, the English courses would be of course the general requiried classes in 9th grade and 1th grade. And then English literature, English composition, creative writing, journalism courses, anywhere you can do any type of writing is vital. In addition to that, the SAT now has a writing portion of the exam, so any practice that you could get in the writing would certainly help you there. One of the key questions universities will ask students is what do you like to read, what are your favorite books. Certainly, that's the kind of exposure you would get by taking a lot of English.