<p>When i was signing up for classes last year, I was intially worried about taking 4 APs and an honors math class. However, I was pleasantly suprised this year to find that none of my APs are overbearingly heard like I expected them to be. This worries me though...because I know that admissions counselors know exactly which APs are challenging and which are not. I dont want them to think I'm a slacker, since I initailly signed up for the classes because they were AP level, not because I was looking to take easy classes.</p>
<p>Anyway, the APs I'm taking are:</p>
<p>AP Human Geography
AP Environmental Science
AP Lit
AP Studio Art (photography)</p>
<p>and honors calc, as well as two elective classes.</p>
<p>will colleges view this as uncompetative?</p>
<p>It depends on what everyone else in your high school is taking. The rigor of your courseload is viewed in the context of your school.</p>
<p>If there’s a ton of people taking full loads of APs, then this will not be competitive with those students. If, however, most people are taking one or two APs, this will probably be deemed a rigorous courseload.</p>
<p>It further depends on the number of AP courses offered - if you’re taking advantage of the resources they have (e.g., wide variety of AP courses), they’ll look upon your schedule favorably. If there’s 20 AP courses and you only take 1 of them, that looks bad - even if everyone else only takes 1 (unless you’re only able to take one).</p>
<p>Is your courseload rigorous in the context of your high school? If it is, it’s rigorous. If it’s not, it’s not. That’s a question that you should be fully capable of answering for yourself.</p>
<p>my senior schedule is:
Virtual Business class
AP Gov’t
Anatomy+physiology
AP Art
AP Calc BC
English Honors</p>
<p>:o</p>
<p>what other ap’s are available that you can take?</p>
<p>I would suggest keeping those ap’s and switching those electives to ap’s =P</p>