<p>Ok, so I'm currently a junior in HS and I signed up for 4 APs for my senior year. I haven't taken any APs yet, and I didn't think about this until recently........if good schools are looking for rigor, and if I apply in the fall, how can they still take into account my rigorous senior schedule for admission? I would only have just started senior year......will it look bad since I haven't taken any yet? My friend said 4 APs in one year is too many.......I'm worried that I should have taken AP History this year.......now what? Am I dooming myself? They'd be AP Lit/Comp, AP Spanish, AP US History, and AP Statistics. Thank you!</p>
<p>They will know what courses you’re taking for your senior year, but you’ll be at a disadvantage in that they don’t know how well you’ll handle the rigor of those courses.</p>
<p>4 APs is <em>not</em> too many. Many take 6 or more in one year. As long as you work hard and stay focused, you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>As for not having taken any APs yet, that probably won’t look very good (especially if you haven’t had very many Honors courses yet either). Colleges want to see that you’re taking rigorous courses in more than just your senior year, and that you’re performing well in those courses.</p>
<p>If you’ve taken a lot of Honors courses already, that will reduce the disadvantage that waiting until senior year for APs puts you at.</p>
<p>If you are applying to the most competitive schools, you’ll be expected to have one of the most rigorous courseloads in your school. This means that you should keep up with your peers–if they took APUSH this year and you didn’t, that may reflect poorly.</p>
<p>As for whether colleges can take into consideration senior year APs: of course they can. They will see that you aren’t slacking off in terms of your class rigor your senior year, and they will be able to gauge how well you are performing when they receive your midyear report (unless, of course, you apply someplace early, in which case they may or may not request first quarter grades). I imagine that your midyear report will be a crucial component of your application next year.</p>
<p>If you apply EA or ED, they most likely wont see your senior year schedule unless you send your first marking period grades. At my school the marking period ends in late November I think, so schools won’t know. And, even if your grades are out, some EA/ED schools only want up to your junior year grades.</p>
<p>By the end on senior year, I will have had 4.5 years of English, 4.5 of foreign language (I took one over the summer) 4 years of math, 4.5 of social science, and 3.5 of science.</p>
<p>Did your school offer APs your junior year and you just decided not to take them? In that case, it will reflect poorly on your course rigor. However, having APs in your senior year can definitely help.</p>
<p>Some schools award extra brownie points for a rigorous senior year. UCSC says it does.</p>
<p>Yes but they’ll award it only for consistency. They’ll know your school policy to see if APs are offered to juniors too.</p>
<p>If your school offered APs Junior year, you probably should have taken at least one. That way they would have a better idea of how well you can handle college work, and they could also have an AP score to judge you on as well. Has your school schedule been rigorous with challenging or honors classes? What classes did you take?</p>