<p>There are plenty of posts I've read where people mention that they're taking five or more Advanced Placement courses. At my school, there are only four "blocks" each around 90 minutes long and all of the APs are taught year-round instead of a semester.</p>
<p>Will my lack of AP classes look poorly on my transcript?</p>
<p>How many APs students take generally depends on the school. At my public high school, only a handful of AP courses were offered along with dual enrollment courses at the local community college. I personally only took 4 AP classes my entire high school career. I got As in all of them and did not find myself having a hard time getting acceptance letters from colleges.</p>
<p>If you are excelling in the APs that you are taking, that reflects well on you. I would think that quality is better than quantity in this case.</p>
<p>Colleges aren’t going to punish you because you don’t have the same options as other students.</p>
<p>Selective schools have a guidance counselor fill out a form stating how many AP classes your school offers, restrictions on how many you can take per year, and how rigorous your schedule is in the context of what is offered and what other students are taking. As long as you are taking the most rigorous schedule possible at your school and challenging yourself, you will be just fine. If that means only taking 2 or 3 AP classes because that’s all you can fit, that’s fine.
If your college isn’t selective, any number of AP classes looks impressive so no problems there.</p>
<p>I hope that colleges won’t frown upon my upcoming schedule:</p>
<p>AP Psychology
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
Honors English 12
Honors Engineering Design & Development</p>
<p>I didn’t want to take AP English again for my senior year because I wanted to take an engineering class since I’m in the STEM Academy at my school.</p>
<p>That doesn’t look like a bad schedule, so I don’t know why you’re so worried.</p>