<p>I'm currently a junior and I am taking 3 AP classes- AP Composition, AP Biology, and AP Statistics. I will take 6 more in my senior year.
My schedule also includes science research, pre-calc research, and debate.</p>
<p>My school does offer a lot of AP classes.
However, I am only taking 3 APs in junior year, because I cannot manage to take anymore.</p>
<p>The primary concern I have is that I have no history AP.
I am planning to take the SAT II English literature, chemistry, math iic, biology, and korean.</p>
<p>Will Harvard count the absence of a history AP as an absolute negative?
Please give me opinions!!</p>
<p>If you can’t handle the most difficult slate of courses at your high school, you are correct that the admissions officers are unlikely to think that you will be able to do well at Harvard. (Unless “cannot manage to take” means that you have scheduling conflicts, which I assume would be forgivable if your guidance counselor approves and still thinks you’re challenging yourself.) The specific lack of a history AP probably won’t get you; it’s the larger issue of whether your counselor will check, on how difficult your courses were, the “most challenging” option.</p>
<p>When you apply to college, your guidance counselor must submit a Secondary School Report (SSR) to each college that you are applying to. The report specifically asks them to rate the rigor of your course load in relation to other students at your school. If 3 AP’s in your junior year are about average for students at your school, you’ll be fine.</p>