His school has AP chemistry which creates the problem of taking the hardest courses. They are considering having him skip regular and go right into AP chemistry. You are right, there is no formula. Only guidelines that will increase your chances of being admitted. We almost missed one of the very basic parts of the formula.
Coach Carroll saw him at HF. Talked a lot about grades and other positions. Asked my son to email his class schedule, which he did. Now comes the question of does he send a revised schedule to the coaches? He’s going to have to drop either AP microeconomics or AP computer science and replace with honors chemistry