<p>What's a good number of AP's for penn? Wharton specifically?</p>
<p>I would have taken 9/14 of my school's AP classes (not including foreign languages and arts) by the end of senior year.</p>
<p>How does this compare?</p>
<p>It really depends on how many AP’s your school offers…</p>
<p>most ivy league applicants would have taken 14/14 APs, but in reality 9/14 is good and will be satisfactory as long as your extracurrics are good. Although the grade you receive in the classes and on the AP finals will count. If you only take 5 Aps and get 4s and 5s, it is better than taking all 14 and receiving 1s and 2s. I’m sure you understand why, everyone is allowed to take AP classes, but not everyone is capable of receiving high marks.</p>
<p>^ ****. 14/14 nobody I know, even the brightest students, have/will have taken 14 AP’s. And that’s including siemens finalists, coca-cola scholars, and hpy students.</p>
<p>rofl 14 APs. most kids (that end up going to HYP) take 8-10 maximum.
i’m taking 7. :3</p>
<p>yeah fourteen ap classes is pretty crazy. many people self study and take that many tests but do not actually take the classes because that would just be hard to fit in haha</p>
<p>14 AP classes or 14 AP exams? I took 14 AP exams:
Government, Chem, Physics C: Electricity and Magnitism, Physics C: Mechanics, AP Micro econ, AP macro econ, AP Lit, AP Lang, AP Psych, AP Environmental Science, AP Calc AB, AP Stat, AP Calc BC (yeah yeah, took AB and BC in two different years. I’m a slacker haha), AP Comp Sci A</p>
<p>Econ was 1 class, Physics was 1 class, AB/BC shouldn’t really count as two although I paid for and took both exams in separate years.</p>
<p>On the flip side, there are kids here without any AP classes (or IB classes) and kids with like 4 AP’s.</p>
<p>Now are we talking 14 classes by the end of senior year or junior year. I will have 12 by the end of senior year, but I only have 7 right now. Does that make a difference or not?</p>
<p>My school offers over 20 APs, but it’s difficult to exceed 10 due to the curriculum structure.</p>
<p>my school offered 26 AP classes…in reality though since you could only take 1 foreign language the most you could possibly take was 22 (and realistically with scheduling you could only take at most 16-18). I took something like 16 of the 22 throughout all four years of school (dont really remember the exact number since it’s been a while) and I was the person that had taken the most APs in our school’s history. So the actually number of APs doesnt matter…all that matters is how rigorous your schedule is compared to the rest of your classmates. If most of your top classmates (those applying to HYP or comparable schools) are taking 12-14 out of the 14 offered and you are only taking 9 then it could be looked upon unfavorably. If most are in your range then its fine.</p>
<p>my school offers 13 APs (two of those are languages i don’t take - latin and french, so technically 11) and i took 6. i dropped out of the 7th due to schedule conflicts and it shows on my transcript though so we’ll see how it goes over…i took all of them cept physics, chem (which i dropped out of), envirosci, gov, and ush :p</p>
<p>My school offers 11 that doesn’t include language. So idealistically, 12. And you can’t take AP Chem and AP Biology in the same year. AP Chem also wasn’t offered this year, so basically 11. By the end of senior year, I’ll have 9 finished. Due to scheduling, I couldn’t take Spanish 4 in 11th grade, so I couldn’t take AP Spanish. Didn’t take AP Chem and AP World History as well.</p>
<p>I only took 3! In the first three years of high school.
Senior year I’m taking 5…</p>
<p>I took 9/13 of my school’s APs and 2 IBs on top of that. It’s whatever, I would have been equally as comfortable with 7 APs on my schedule.</p>
<p>As already mentioned, you can take AP tests without the classes. My son took 17 AP tests, and 15 classes. Taking a test or two with self-prep shows a l,ot of initiative. But it’s not necessary to do this to be competitive; it does make you stand out though.</p>
<p>That sounds like an awful lot of AP’s. My son’s school does not like the “ivy bound” students to take the easier AP classes to boost the number of AP’s they take. For example, psychology, human geography, AP environmental science, etc are not viewed highly and they prefer that the better students not take them.</p>
<p>Hmmm. My school’s college counselor(who is also a respected Penn Alum) told me not to worry about taking APs since I have Double Legacy…</p>
<p>and who cares that your a double legacy, hmmm, I certainly don’t, what was the point of making that comment, sorry for the harshness, but there is no need to brag that both your parents went to Penn, no one except Penn admissions gives a rats behind.</p>
<p>@wikipedia</p>
<p>Both of my fathers went to Penn.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that I agree with penn psycho who let’s all agree sounds a bit pretentious (no offense) but maybe the reason why you’re so upset @ Wikiman is that you’re not a legacy?? It’s been proven how influential legacy is so maybe youre a little jealous?
Just a thought… :/</p>