<p>I go to a school where we have tons of AP courses to take. Most of my friends and I will have 13 by the time we graduate next year. Now, I know most schools don't have even close to this many; a lot of people with say only 5 APs total apply and get into ivies. So, given that we have taken so many APs (and granted, gotten b's in a few of them), do colleges like that more than someone taking only 5 APs or so and getting straight a's? Basically, how much will taking so many APs help in getting into top colleges, even if you get some b's, but through challenging yourself?</p>
<p>I wanna know the exact same question. I'll have 14 by the end of Junior year.</p>
<p>Yes. I will have only taken 4, but the rest of mine are Honors.</p>
<p>depends on how well u do on the AP test. If u just take a bunch of classes without learning ne thing, thats not good</p>
<p>At my school, you cant take any ap in freshman year, then 1 in sophmore, 6 in junior, and 6 in senior.</p>
<p>i think the bottom line is...if you took the hardest classes pretty much, got mostly A's, and got good test scores, your in the game.</p>
<p>yes, straight A's & a perfect SAT is better than a 3.8 UW & 2100, but the bottom line is stats get you in the game.</p>
<p>I think regarding your B's it is going to come down to your rank...if having such competitive, hard classes makes many people get B's & your rank is solid, you have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Generally, I think the diff. is not significant, but I think they still lean toward all A kids w/ a less demanding schedule (ONLY if its roughly the most demanding schedule that the school offers)</p>
<p>Well how do they really know what the most demanding schedule from each school is? Wouldn't it in fact do the opposite? If a person went to a bad school, took a few APs, and got straight A's, how would that look better than a person going to a highly competitive and top school in their state? Do admissions people look at facts about the school? Do they remember which schools are highly competitive?</p>
<p>And also my school and other schools that are highly competitve don't even report rank. They just report quintile, I believe (I'm in the top one). They won't even report the rank for the valedictorian because overall for all their students it actually ends up hurting them in college admissions because a lot of their ranks are really low when if any of them went to a different school they could be first, or close to it, in their class.</p>
<p>aps are irrelevant; i took 5 (Phys B+C, Stats, Eng Lang, and Psycho) and i got into Yale and Columbia. haha, so, um, not to be mean, but, try to develop your other, er, talents?</p>