<p>What happenes if a paticular school only has a hand full of AP/IB Classes and a student can easily get really good grades. Then, what if another student attended a school with every IB/AP imaginable, from Film to Quantum Mechanics (SP?). It seems like if a student takes the hardest course load, which may be squat compared to other schools, they have a just as good if not better chance as far as academics go in the college admissions. I bring this up because I've been going trhough some of the chance threads and a lot of people have UW 4.0's, and then I look and their school only offers 5 or so AP classes. Granted, there are some students who can get straight A's through all IB/Ap courses, but I can count how many can at my school (a class of 1,000 with 150 in full IB) on one hand. Discuss.</p>
<p>Well, the University's reasoning for this is that it's all subjective. I would imagine that they ask themselves, "How has this kid succeeded in his environment." Everyone has their own backgrounds and the standard for excellence is different for each student.</p>
<p>Yeah, I get your point, but I'm on ther other end of the spectrum. My private school banned AP courses in 1993, saying that they disagree with the entire theory of how HPY believe your last two year of high school should be spent. So along with no AP, there are new leveled classes, i.e. no honors. </p>
<p>So I was like, what does that do for me? I took advantage of what my school had to offer, but that's not saying a lot. </p>
<p>Your school profile hopefully details what your school offers. I was grateful that my school produced a four page colored school profile that discussed everything, including their take on APs.</p>
<p>Yeah I understand creative. As long as your GC/School provides some sort of material to explain your school's background. Establishing a basis for which to measure your academic achievement is important.</p>
<p>it wouldn't be fair either way, if I take an easy schedule at a crappy school then you may have worked MUCH harder in IB, but at the same time if I was an inner city kid who didn't have the option of taking any AP or IB why should that be held against me when I could have done well in them. </p>
<p>Either way someone gets screwed</p>
<p>The reason why, I think, colleges do the subjective thing is because they want to reduce speculation. It's easy, and sometimes true, to say what you guys have said, but it's all speculation. This whole "What if?" notion annoys me. Everyone has a different case to bring to the table.</p>