I am confident in myself but one place where I may be lacking are my ap classes. By the end of senior year I will have taken 9 ap classes: Calc BC(11th) Lang(11th) Physics 1 (11th) Physics C Mech(12th) Physics C E&M (12) Chem(12) Micro(12) Macro(12) Comp Sci Prin(12) and I am currently taking multivariable calculus which is above ap. I have taken honors classes 9th and 10th grade because I couldn’t take stem aps which is what interests me. My school offers about 30 aps which is a lot, but will I have taken enough for schools like princeton MIT and rice?
Most here would consider that plenty, unless your counselor requires you to take more to get the “most demanding” course choices indication on the counselor recommendation.
I believe he did check off most demanding, but I applied to princeton scea and im afraid that if they only see the grades to only 3 aps they will think I am not challenging myself enough when in reality I had to get prerequisites out of the way and took classes that interested me.
AP courses are mostly intended to be taken by high school seniors (sometimes juniors), and many of them do have prerequisites which are regular high school courses. This is not surprising, since they cover similar material as college frosh courses, which may also have high school course prerequisites (e.g. college calculus requires precalculus, college science courses require or recommend the high school versions, etc.).
Those AP courses commonly taken by high school frosh like human geography are commonly not regarded as highly as other AP courses.
Thanky you. Do u think I will get knocked for not taking an ap history class or such? I took the main and hardest stem courses at my school and performed well in them and bc they are time consuming i did not want to waste my time on ap world or ap gov.
Thx, as long as my schedule is not deemed “light” i am in good shape i think
A US history or US government AP course (instead of regular course that would otherwise be required in a US high school) could help in terms of showing more well rounded academic strength.
Yeah that makes sense, but i was hoping economics would make up for not taking an ap social studies earlier
Econ won’t make up for APUSH, which is one of the gold standard non-stem APs for adcoms, along with APLit/Comp and foreign language. If you’re a senior and already applied, no sense worrying about it. If not, you should consider replacing one of your Aps with a good non-stem one. Don’t add more APs though.
TM is right about the academic rounding. APUSH forms a basis of sorts, before moving to Econ. Did you get in the range of classes recommended by the colleges? You did take some history, right? A variety? And foreign language?
But what are your AP scores? Did you research what these colleges want, besides stats and rigor?
And, lots of kids do take AP before junior year, but adcoms absolutely know this is a matter of school policy. You have a good guidance counselor?
@lookingforward I have taken honors us history and honors world history so its not like I havent taken a history class, just not at the ap level. I have taken 5 years of spanish as well. As for my ap scores, I got a 5 on BC calc, and a 4 on both lang and physics 1 
Fine.
Now turn to learning as much as you can about what your targets look for, from what they write and show.