<p>What is the average amount of AP's offered in high schools? Our school offers 15, though 4 of them are languages, and some of them are like art, music, java, and others arent even considered as AP to UC's such as environmental science and stats. Only about 5 can be offered for students from freshman-juniors since you can only take 1 science, 1 math, etc. I'm only taking 1 as a junior, but am taking 3 honors to kind of help it out.</p>
<p>My school has seven.</p>
<p>Most colleges take AP stats. Not a waste of time for many majors. </p>
<p>I would take a english, history, math, science and social science AP class. Also a foreign language AP would be good. </p>
<p>My dd only took 3 AP classes but she was a full diploma IB student. </p>
<p>If I were you, I would take atleast 3 AP classes a year that you know the colleges you want to attend will accept for credit.</p>
<p>My son goes to school in the Ft Lauderdale area, and has already passed 8 AP tests, and will be taking 5 or 6 AP classes this coming year, in the 12th grade. And none of these are/were in languages. So at least in his school, there are many. He goes to sort of a magnet school.</p>
<p>Colleges will look at what you took relative to what is available at your school. Having few options will not be a disadvantage. Indeed many top privates offer few and some crappy publics offer tons…it doesn’t mean much when the calibre of what schools call’ AP’ is so extremely variable.</p>
<p>My school offers 24 AP subjects. But not all of them get picked up every year because of enrollment. On average, there’s about 18-19 different AP subjects every year that get picked up. The ones we DON’T have are EnviSci, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Micro, Spanish Lit, Latin, and Music Theory.</p>
<p>Alright, but no one has an idea on what the average amount of AP’s in a high school would be?</p>
<p>…why do you want to know? For admissions it makes no difference. They only want to see that you took the “most rigorous courses offerred”. Our school only offers 5 and we get students accepted into Ivy league schools.</p>
<p>My school, a random public one, has six (3 sciences, calc, stats, envisci), with most students only ever taking around 4. Still, we send about 20% of our class to Ivy Leagues and whatnot yearly, which goes to show that the (absolute) number of APs doesn’t have any importance whatsoever! So no worries; the count probably won’t matter in the end. </p>
<p>I’ll bet that the national average is around five, maybe a little less. There are tons of good schools that offer an absurd amount of them, though, and if you went to one of those you’d definitely need more than five to be competitive.</p>
<p>We have 23 different ones, but it doesn’t matter if you have 3 AP offerings or 30. When colleges see your high school on your application, they automatically have an idea of how many APs were offered and how many you actually took advantage of. Obviously, nobody in my school has taken all 23, but there are some who take 5 or 6 AP’s for junior and senior year. Colleges have the ability to look up the difficulty of courses, the amount of kids that went to different schools, and so on. Just as long as you have those hard courses that your school offers on your final transcript you should be fine.</p>
<p>My school only has 3. /=</p>
<p>Over nine thousand.</p>
<p>^ You’re just spitting them jokes out today, aren’t you? :p</p>