<p>Yeah. They will take rigor and your HS's profile into consideration.</p>
<p>I have a question (not to take topic on a tangent, but don't want to waste another thread). What if it appears as if there are a lot of AP classes available at your school, but the counselors schedule them so most AP classes bump heads for the same class period. For example, I signed up for 4 AP classes senior year, but could only take 2 because: 1 was cancelled and 2 occurred during the same class period. Any alternative APs, I either didn't do pre-reqs or wasn't allowed to since didn't recieve summer assignment. How do I explain that?</p>
<p>If your school offers like 20 AP courses, you aren't expected to take all 20. I mean there are things like various languages, art, music, etc. that cannot fit into your schedule, or a lot of students may not take.</p>
<p>Also, there are conflicts in like every school and I'm sure colleges know that. You should follow your passions with your classes. So if you are really into english and you write but could not take AP English, you should probably explain (or just take the exam) :)</p>
<p>Adding to what pnthrs11 said, I know a Harvard student who said that APs like Psychology or Human Geography are considered "lesser APs" than courses like Calculus, Chemistry, or Lang/Lit. I don't know how much truth there is to that though, I just heard it from one student who took the "more important" APs.</p>
<p>Yes great addition chinnychang colleges will look preferably at AP's like Chemistry and Calculus and U.S. History over Psych, Human Geo, and Enviro.</p>
<p>schools like to see that you have challenged urself. i for one took AP Calculus, Ap Biology, AP Literature Ap Psychology and so i chalked them afterwards though :)</p>