<p>I am can only take up to four ap courses in my school while others could take more, but I want to know if that would be enough for my ultimate goal, to go to an academic prestigious college. I tried almost everything to get an opportunity to take more but my school will not let me. Will this make me less of a competitor for these colleges? Thanks.</p>
<p>The school will only let you take 4 AP classes, or the school limits everyone to 4 AP classes?</p>
<p>No I have to take required classes first then I can take ap courses if I have the space. And I went through everything and I found out I can only take 3 or 4 at the most.</p>
<p>My bad. It basically is the first option you gave me.</p>
<p>Obviously, your competition will be students whom taken APs or IB classes for years. These colleges also know not every high school education are equal to each other. Maybe if there’s a short answer/essay prompt of “academic circumstances” as part of the application, you could explain a bit of your efforts with limited resources. </p>
<p>I would not worry about it. My two DSs got into the very top schools in the country without one AP test taken or AP listed on their transcripts. Represent yourself and your ECs as best you can and do not worry about it at all. And we know others who did the same, so it can be done.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat - my school very, very rarely let’s students take APs before junior year, and our school reportt says that students are “strongly encouraged” to take not more than 2 AP classes per academic year. I took 2 in my junior year, and somehow became one of the only kids in my school’s history - that I know of - to be approved to take 4 in one year (senior year) haha. Keep in mind that you will be judged <em>in the context of your school</em>, so whatever restrictions your school has won’t work against you. Good luck!</p>
<p>With only 2-4 ap classes, you have to choose the hardest and best fit your major later on. Also need stellar EC’s</p>
<p>@LAMuniv, what 4 AP classes do you take in senior year ? I lives in the south and 4 ap classes a year is allow as early as sophomore.</p>
<p>@long2181998 My senior year AP classes were Stats, Calc BC, Physics (it was just called AP physics, but it was physics with calculus and both mechanics and electricity, so I guess most people call that Physics C Mechanics and Electricity?), and English lit. I go to a private school, so what I mentioned about limits on AP classes isn’t the state’s guidelines or anything.</p>
<p>Junior year I took calc AB and chem, if that matters.</p>
<p>Ironically, I now want to be an English and history double major. (Goodbye, science and math…)</p>
<p>It’s not reasonable for colleges to expect applicants to do anything more than take the most challenging classes available to them at their school. Your schedule isn’t going to be directly compared to the schedules of people who had more opportunities to take advanced classes.
Still, I’m not sure what you mean by this. Why do you have to take more required classes than other people? What kind of classes are they? Would any AP classes actually fulfill one of the requirements? Do you understand that the term “elective” means any class that isn’t required, and you can take AP classes as electives?</p>
<p>Well, the school basically chose my freshman year schedule and Sophmore year schedule, so I guess I was unlucky and in the long run will not be able to take more than 4 ap’s while others could but no one really does. No AP would not be a requirement.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t stress about it, as long as you do well in those classes.</p>
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If you want to change this, then you could probably go see the guidance department and tell them you’d like to be able to take more AP classes.</p>