In our school, there are many road blocks to enter an AP Course. For example…in order for you to take AP bio, u must have a 3.8 GPA, a passing score on a qualifying exam, and an A in both semester in Biology in 9th grade. And other AP’s have extremely unfair rules to get into a AP class. Like to go to APUSH, u must be in AP English Composition and must have an A in that class in order for you to stay in APUSH. Are all high schools like this and will colleges understand if i couldnt take an AP class as a result for this unfair method.
<p>Probably depends on the college and its applicant pool. Any that you're asking about specifically?</p>
<p>I duno...i am worried because I already sent my UC application and worried that they will penalize me because i was prevented from taking more AP's. I have taken 9 including my senior year but easily could have had 12 AP's if it weren't for the prerequisites for every single damn AP class</p>
<p>... 9 is enough. Also, if you couldn't take the class, you still could've taken the exam.</p>
<p>uh yea my school does not even offer 9 AP's... Also we can only start taking them junior year.</p>
<p>My school only offers 10 and it's impossible to take them all, especially considering four of them were just started this year. I'll have 5 by graduation, and that's the most I could schedule in without the four which were offered for the first time this year being able to be fit into my schedule.</p>
<p>HOw many AP's are enough to take for schools such as UCLA, Uc Berkely, or Stanford...just wondering.</p>
<p>your high school's profile should give information on what is a "lot" of APs for that particular school. Aslong as you took the most challenging curriculum you could w/in your school's constraints, don't worry about it.</p>
<p>There isn't a set #. It's how many you take within your school's constraints. If your school only offers five, and you take all five, then it won't hurt you. If your school offers 30(are there even 30 possible?) and the weighted rank valedictorian takes 10 and you take 10, then it won't hurt you. If your school offers two and you take all two, again, it probably won't be that bad if your other areas are strong. But if your school offers for example, 20, and you take 1, and the avg. is 10, then for select colleges, yes that will make a big difference.(Excluding athletic recruits, under-represneted minorities, people who have buildings dedicated to them, etc.)
You say that there are 10 and you will take 5. I can't tell if that's good or bad without knowing what is the avg for your school. </p>
<p>The idea is pretty much to take the most challenging. For some schools(like the ivy's) your counselors will be marking checkboxes on whether you took the most challenging, challenging ,average, below average, etc. If you're trying for really selective schools it might hurt you because it simply won't be the most challenging(the restrictions you're describing don't seem too bad and for some of the most select schools, many applicants in the pool would easily qualify). At places where the competition isn't quite as rough, it probably won't make too much of a difference. </p>
<p>My school offers AP Comp. Sci A, AP Comp Sci. AB, AP Lang, AP Lit, AP Stat, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP World, AP US, AP Comp. Gov, AP Macro Ecnomics, Ap Human Geog, AP Psychology, AP Art History, AP French 5, AP French 6, AP Spanish 5, AP Spanish 6, AP Physics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Env. Sci.
Counting the Comp. Sci classes both as one(since you probably wouldn't take both), we have 21 classes although it is not conceivable to take all 21 and still meet graduation requirements.
I'm probably going to be ranked 5-7 in my class and I'll have taken 13 or 14 by the end of senior year. So at my school, taking 5 AP classes isn't competitive while taking 5 at another school is.</p>
<p>Basically in my school, if you can breathe air then you can get into an AP class, that goes without saying 25% of all people who sign up for APs drop out within 3 weeks.</p>
<p>My school only offers 2 AP courses and we sned people to Ivies every year. So number of APs obviously doesn't matter.</p>
<p>thank u ppl!!!!! Cuz i was worried..our school offers 18...whata relief..cuz all these ppl here take like a kajillion AP...</p>