<p>Defy Yourself....do NOT worry at ALL that your school only has one AP class. The rigor of your courseload will be interpretted within the CONTEXT of YOUR high school and what is offered there. Colleges, particularly selective ones, want to see that you took the most demanding or nearly most demanding courses offered at YOUR school. If your school only offers one AP class and you took it, that's FINE. I imagine you might have HONORS courses? If so, and you took these throughout HS, that's FINE. Colleges won't compare what you took to someone who went to a school that offers 18 AP classes. They just want to know that you challenged yourself with what is available to YOU. </p>
<p>If it makes you feel better, and I hope it does.....our HS barely offered AP classes when my two daughters attended. Rather, their hardest classes were called HONORS (and they were challenging, by the way). When my kids went, the only AP classes were AP Calculus and AP Physics. Right after my youngest D left, they have recently changed a few of the top Honors Humanities courses in 11th and 12th (that my girls had taken) to AP designation. </p>
<p>Both my kids took the most challenging courses offered and then some (acceleration, etc.). My oldest had the AP Calculus and AP Physics, the only AP designated courses offered at that time. She took a second year of AP Calculus (BC) long distance through Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth because she had exhausted our math curriculum (which goes through AP Calc) by the end of 11th grade due to acceleration. She did French 6 through supervised independent study as she had finished the highest level, French V in 11th. She was valedictorian and got into many selective colleges, including Ivies. The lack of AP designation except for those couple of classes, did not hurt her because she took the hardest courses our HS offered. </p>
<p>My younger D who goes to a BFA in MT program, had also accelerated in math and so did AP Calculus as a junior, the only junior to do so, and in fact, since only accelerated seniors take it at our HS, it was scheduled when the hardest English and History for 11th grade was for her and so she had to do AP Calculus as a supervised independent study. She also did French V as a junior, which is the highest our school goes but she was accelerated. She never took the one AP science class we have, AP Physics, because she graduated after 11th and that class is only for seniors. Otherwise, she took the hardest courses offered, all Honors at our HS. She got into the majority of her colleges which were all BFA programs, too. </p>
<p>I can assure you that if you took the most demanding curriculum at YOUR high school and got very good grades, and have a very good GPA, that puts you in contention for any college on that one factor....obviously many other factors go into admissions....SATs, etc.</p>
<p>You should not compare how many AP courses you took with how many someone else took at another HS. Colleges will NOT do that. They WILL compare what YOU took with what OTHERS at YOUR high school took. They also will look at your class rank and if your school doesn't rank, they will look at where you fall in grade distribution at your HS, all the while examining the rigor of your coursework. </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>