<p>…why would u take 28 APs…?</p>
<p>to kick butt in your college apps</p>
<p>^ Too bad AP tests don’t really count for anything in terms of college admissions.
Only if you want college credit.</p>
<p>@MarinebioSax
unless you’re applying to uk schools… oxbridge, lse, ucl. Then APs will count for more than your SAT scores, and your ECs wont count for anything.</p>
<p>Oh wait, you said college. I’m thinking real-mens universities who enjoy seeing that you can handle the rigors of a quasi-college structured course while in HS.</p>
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Rofl, what?</p>
<p>They don’t count for anything? They show that the student has the initiative and motivation to self-study exams; this ability is valuable in college for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>You can show “initiative and motivation” without spending $2,436 on AP tests o_0 or $1260 if you’re using fee wavers.</p>
<p>^You may certainly be correct; however, that does not diminish the point that AP tests are not useless.</p>
<p>AP tests are getting useless to highly competitive schools because all the competitive applicants have like 20+ APs, so you realy have to do something else to stand out.</p>
<p>I disagree. With so many applicants getting similar grades, SAT scores, and EC’s, the APs can be a great way to distinguish yuourself from the majority of other applicants. You’re actually wrong, most applicants even to top universities have only around 10 AP’s. So getting 20 can be very impresive</p>
<p>^Actually, for every 4-year administration, there are no more than 50 people in the entire nation who take 20+ AP tests.</p>
<p>I wish there is a “like” button on CC lol
yeah everyone is now taking AP…so what makes AP realyl “advanced”??</p>
<p>^ everyone on CC is, not every student.</p>
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<p>It’s being administered, but by a different company. It’s similar to the Chinese exam, since it’s done on the computer.</p>
<p>609 is right – plenty of people think one or two exams, in total, are too much.</p>
<p>@sinohellenic</p>
<p>Maybe it’s jsut my school lol. Or people just aren’t getting in those colleges cuz they’re resume padding those APs and not looking well rounded.</p>
<p>And i exaggerated when i said 20+ APs, i meant 10+ :P</p>
<p>It’s a bad world when trying to achieve a lot is “resume padding” and thus gets you disqualified, forcing one to try to achieve not to little and not too much.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think most people smart enough to do well on 20+ tests also do well in school and have ECs they enjoy.</p>
<p>I agree completely.
Some people I know that go to schools which offer AP’s don’t even bother to take them.
It’s mostly just CC ~ students who are more proactive about these things that are taking a zillion AP’s ^^</p>
<p>I didn’t mean that it’s the only thing, but it certainly can help. Along with lots of EC’s, sports, a good gpa, and high test scores, AP’s and IB’s are still very important for the admission decision. However, I only realized this year that writing an awesome college essay can get you into lots of schools even without perfect AP scores or a perfect GPA. My sister, who has taken 12 AP’s, but averages a 4 on them, and has a 3.8 GPA, was accepted to every single Ivy on the back of her essay, which was really, really awesome, so I think that as long as you have something that stands out, colleges will take that into account.</p>
<p>^Do you think that lots of APs and such would still be good if the essay is just decent(instead of amazing)?</p>
<p>^I think they’ll look at other factors, like ECs and recommendations, in that case.</p>