<p>How many APs are you guys taking? I've been looking through the forums and I've seen some people with chance posts that have 5 or 6 just in their underclassman years. In my school, we can't even take APs until junior year, and although my 3 APs (stat, US history, literature) aren't grueling, adding a fourth would mean dropping a sport or some other EC that I know colleges look for.</p>
<p>I think it just matters about the rigor of your classes in relation to your high school. My school is REALLY small (like 20 people is a BIG grade) so they don't offer all of the AP classes. I took 1 sophomore year, 3 junior year, and now I'm only taking 1 again even though I'm, taking 3 AP level courses because they changed the system :( It's exactly the same work it's just designated as Honors. But in comparison to my school, I've taken all of the hardest classes available to me.</p>
<p>take as many as your school offers to show that you've taken advantage of everything your hs has to offer. I took 9 overall because that's how many i could handle each year without driving myself completely crazy.</p>
<p>yeah thats good advice. usually for my school, the most anyone ever would take is three junior year and three senior year and im doing three then four (total 7). one person tried to do five in a year and ended up getting Cs in all of her classes because of the workload. I know APs are somewhat standardized, but theres no way anyone from my school could take 9 APs and pass.</p>
<p>Hmmm, that's interesting because a lot of Ivy league people are taking over 8 or 9 AP classes in my school.
But it's all relative... you can take 5 AP classes, but if that's AMAZING at your school, then Cornell will interpret it accordingly (that's up to your counselor to explain, btw)</p>
<p>Do schools need official AP score reports for application purposes? Or is self-reporting sufficient?</p>
<p>Self reporting is fine. You'll only need the official report for when you've already decided upon a school and are sending your scores for credit.</p>
<p>(You can mark down which school when you take your last set of AP's this spring, assuming you're taking at least one).</p>
<p>I'm currently taking 4 AP classes but will take 5 AP tests (Macro and Micro econ). And, if I graduate high school, I would have taken 9 AP's. But honestly, it depends on how many AP's your school offers and if you're willing to go the additional step by doing self-study.</p>
<p>doesn't really matter that much in my opinion, i got in with 4 aps, 2 junior year and 2 senior year. cornell didn't even see the senior year ones since i got accepted before i even took the exam. a friend of mine got in and she had 0 ap scores by the time she was accepted. though id say most people from my school who gets in had around 3 AP scores before results came out</p>
<p>you'll find that AP classes (and a lot of the things that used to be "important" in HS) don't matter once you get to college. yeah, you'll always find those people who think that the amount of APs they took/their SAT scores/their HS rank determines their self-worth, but why would you want to spend your time with them?</p>
<p>the amount of APs you take don't matter, really - colleges just want to see that you've challenged yourself. plus - taking too many APs might not even help you. CAS is kind of hard to gain AP credits because of their limit on how many credits you can take outside of the actual school. CALS limits the amount of AP credit you can have (max = 30). Engineering basically requires you to have 5s in everything in order to get credit, etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>At my public school, I will have taken 11 APs (12 tests) by the end. The highest people usually go is 13 though.</p>
<p>and the high school i came from had a limit on how many aps you can take. Its dependent on your average. i was only allowed to take 2 aps at a time, if i wanted more id have to get approval and i was way too lazy to do that so i just took 2 junior year. and 2 senior year</p>
<p>That is a great reason to cite: "the school did not allow me to take more than 2 APs each year".</p>
<p>I had 7 AP classes. AP Classes had requirements that make it nearly impossible to take until Junior Year. When I did, I took just 3 since I still had to take PE, and English/Spanish was not available for AP til the last year.
Then this year, I didn't want to take so many classes since I had dual enrollment, so elected to take 3, but when Span 4 ADV turned out to have only 10 people, it got elevated to Spanish 4 AP with the others. So now I have 4 this year. At least 3 of them will be cake for me. The first one, I basically know more than the teacher (first year teaching it), the third one I get to use notes on all tests but one, and the last one, is related to my major and I took the class already in summer at a college. So easy for me.</p>
<p>at my school they offered a decent amount of APs as long as there were enough people to make the class (9 or more) and that there was a teacher to teach it (we didnt have chinese, latin, etc...)</p>
<p>my school is on the lower end of performance and teachers were happy with a 3...</p>
<p>at my school there were no honors..it was either AP or REgular...or concurrent enrollment at the community college...</p>
<p>Yeah considering all the advice I think I'll stick to 7 APs and put more into ECs</p>
<p>13 APs and 6 IBs</p>
<p>I'm a 10th grader, and I'm taking only APUSH right now. Next year I'll probably take 4 APs</p>
<p>Do you all have to take the AP exams as well? Or are you just taking the class? Our school insists on the exam.</p>
<p>I don't HAVE to take the exam, it's just that it's a total waste of time to take the class and not take the exam. Plus, I think that colleges like it better if you take it and get a bad grade than if you don't take it at all</p>