<p>Hey i just went to my tutoring center and they had this list of how many APs you take is what they think you are likely to get admitted to. </p>
<p>Here's a segment of it
112=1 Freshman, 1 Sophomore, 2 Junior (APs taken)</p>
<p>033, 114 Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, etc.
014, 023 MIT, Caltech (for girls)
113, 222 Cornell, Brown, Northwestern
013, 122 UC Berkeley, UCLA, Rice
001 UCs below Irvine</p>
<p>How credible is this?</p>
<p>not credible at all. Just because you challenged yourself by taking AP courses doesn't necessarily mean you did well in those classes or on the AP tests. What if you got C's in all your ap classes and 1's on the tests? Would you still get into harvard, even if you took 12 AP's in high school. No!</p>
<p>I would have to agree, not very credible, especially considering some schools [i.e. mine] only allows juniors and seniors to take AP courses and for the juniors there's a limited selection so by graduation my number was 0015 and that worked out fine for me, granted taking more AP courses looks better but as said before, not doing well in the class sort of compromises everything.</p>
<p>I wish it were like that lol</p>
<p>It also doesn't take into account the fact that some students <em>cough cough me cough cough</em> took less AP classes in order to take certain electives all four years.</p>
<p>I can't believe that a legit tutoring center would even have that posted. I'd drop that place pretty quick.</p>
<p>i dont get it...what are all those numbers. i feel REALLY stupid right now.</p>
<p>Yeah, those are terrible. Many schools don't offer enough APs to make that possible, and tons of schools don't allow APs until after a certain year. At my school, through your first 2 years you can only have taken 1 AP, and my school offers a lot of APs. I'm going to graduate with 10 APs, which is a schedule rigorous enough for any school, but according to that system I'd be a 013, only good enough for UCLA. But to say that rigor of schedule is that important a factor is simply not true. It is important, and can make or break you, but there are probably 4-5 equally important factors on your application.</p>
<p>oh i see how it works now</p>
<p>i dont get it, how is a 114 better than a 014...just one freshman AP? thats so dumb</p>
<p>well i think it's because you took it upon yourself very early in high school to already go for the tough stuff, so i guess that one apparently makes a difference though if they kept this system i would have been at 001, but i guess the system is rather bogus b/c i did fine enough.</p>