<p>can anyone who was accepted into bowdoin tell me what aps they took or how many…im trying to figure out where i should be in my amount of aps</p>
<p>anyone?.............</p>
<p>What are you asking? Most colleges don't require any specific or number of AP's, they just recommend that you take the most challenging curriculum you can. Most also don't consider or even require AP exam scores except after you are admitted, as part of placing you in the appropriate level course.</p>
<p>well im wondering how many they took to see what bowdoins idea of a challenging courseload is like is it 14 aps or 6-7 aps just so i can get a general idea of how challenging my courseload is</p>
<p>Don't let the college admissions tail wag your education dog. Take challenging courses that interest you; nobody will reward you for driivng yourself crazy with more AP's than you can reasonably handle and still have time to pursue whatever other passions you have. Remember colleges usually say in their presentations- #1 consideration =GPA in a challenging curriculum...followed fairly closely by showing of leadership and/ or creativity/talent/passion. None of them mention any number of AP's- they look to each school's offering to see how much significance to attach to your GPA. Good luck!</p>
<p>I would guess that the average amount of APs for kids applying to bowdoin or similar schools is like 7-10.
I think that the norm for most Ivies even isn't many more than 10</p>
<p>It seems like the number of AP's a student takes varies across the nation. A have a few friends in the South (Texas and Southern Cali) and both started taking APs during Sophomore year! I think they ended up taking 10+. In my school (public), most high-achieving students took their first AP junior year (APUSH). When I was is junior year, I took two, along with 4 other kids, and it was a "big deal." Personally I ended up taking 6 AP classes in total. Thats a lot for my high school. Remember Bowdoin is aware of the disparities among the highschools across the nation. Good Luck.</p>
<p>It probably depends on what is available at your school. They ask that you take the most challenging classes available to you. Two kids got in to Bowdoin from my daughter's school - one had 7 APs (my daughter) and the other had 1. Kids with #s of APs in the middle were rejected. My guess is that the number of APs was not the deciding factor in acceptance or rejection.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter at all, really. Depends on your program. My HS had four APs and Bowdoin didn't care. They're nice to use your senior year so you can take three classes instead of four. That's about all they're good for.</p>
<p>zfox001 is completely incorrect. Most of the students at Bowdoin have only taken a few APs i.e. 5 max. These colleges don't care if you take APs or not. As far as academics go, they care if you've gotten good grades and have shown commitment.</p>
<p>I very much believe it depends on what your school offers, what you say your interests are and the overall competitiveness of your high school. If your school offers tons of APs but you don't take any, or your lack of APs makes your GPA/rank much weaker than other kids in your class, than its certainly going to hurt your chances. But in cases like mine, where my school offered APs mostly in subjects I would have done poorly in or would have to had invest an inordinate amount of time trying to keep up, colleges will compensate. I was admitted having taken APs in Lit, Language, Gov, US History and an independent study in Euro History and because they were all relevant to my intended major (history) I suspect my lack of academic diversity didn't hurt. My suggestion would be to only take APs in what you know you can reasonably handle and if that means taking fewer APs than so be it, just make sure that they're in subjects relevant to your interests.</p>