<p>Hi, I go to school in Ontario, Canada and AP courses at my school aren't really made available mostly until grade 12. Im going into grade 11 and most of the classes I am taking are courses to prepare me for: AP statistics, AP Economics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP English. The only AP course on my calendar for this upcoming school year will be AP American History. </p>
<p>So here's my question: when I send my application to Yale at the beginning of grade 12, all I will have to show in actual AP Exam scores will be my American History score and maybe a self-studied AP Human Geography exam score. Will this be a problem? I will take the majority of my AP exams in the summer of 2010-2011, but will this be too late for Yale to consider when looking at my application?</p>
<p>Im concerned if I might be not meeting the "AP" threshold that so many other people on here seem to really take to a whole new level. What should I be doing now if I want some additional AP experience?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it, that’s exactly how my school works. There are a few kids who can get into AP Bio junior year, but besides that, the only official AP available for juniors is APUSH. This year there are 3 kids from my school going to Yale, so it’s not a problem at all.
Yale, and most schools, don’t look to see the sheer quantity of APs you’ve taken, but rather that you’ve taken as many as could based on what was offered. So if your school only offered 3 they would look to see that you’d taken all 3, where if your school offered 25 they would look to see that every class you were taking was an AP. See?</p>
<p>Absolutely as ibreal says: your curriculum is evaluated in the context of your high school’s offerings.</p>
<p>However, your application should still demonstrate outstanding academic initiative. If your high school’s curriculum is too constrained to do this, you might consider:</p>
<p>– self-studied tests
– on-line or local college courses
– extra-credit or extracurricular academic, research, or intellectual activities and competitions
– relevant employment (e.g., at a research lab)
– testimonials (your letter-writers mention specific examples where you demonstrate superior intellectual ambition)</p>