<p>Ok so my mom just had a meeting with my counselor and he told her that to be admitted into some of the best schools (not ivy league only perse... we're talking Tufts, Northwestern...etc) you would look much better with ten AP's and with A's in atleast 5 total. To what extent do you think this statement about half of your AP classes to be A's is true? And lets say I take AP psych which is known to be one of the easiest versus AP physics.... how would that look? I already have 2 A's but I know I wont/will struggle with getting A's in Calculus BC and Physics... I know I will get an A in biology. I dont know if I should basically switch out my AP's for easier ones and get A's or what? what do you think?</p>
<p>No, its better to get a B in a 'harder' AP than to get an A in an 'easier' AP. Even if you don't reach the 5 'A' in 10 AP classes standard, i'm sure that won't be a make or break factor. Besides, schools don't have a set formula, so if you tried hard and have other stuff (ECs, etc) then you should be fine.</p>
<p>editt..
but remember, hard/easy is relative to your school. At our school, AP PSYCH is notoriously "known to be" easy (even though it really isn't THAT easy!) and AP PYHSICS is notoriously hard. However, at another school in our district, AP PYHSICS is not as hard and around same difficulty level as say.. APUSH (not impossibly difficult)</p>
<p>I am not too familiar with how the AP's work but from what I heard it should be a balance between your GPA and # of the courses, especially considering the difficulty of them. If you know your GPA will suffer if you take 5 courses, I say not. I really doubt it's a huge difference between 3 and 5 AP classes, hearing from admitted seniors at my school.</p>
<p>Why is your mom meeting with your counselor without you there anyway?</p>
<p>You should take APs in subjects you are interested in and that will apply to what you want to study in college. If you are going to apply to Engineering programs they will think it strange if you took all social studies AP classes and no math or sciences!</p>