<p>Are these classes good enough? Should I lean towards a specific class that is more noticeable and stands out? I feel really intimidated and overwhelmed because I have barely 8 AP classes compared to other who have 10-14. FWI: I am going into high school and this is how I plan for my high school schedule to look like if these classes where available.</p>
<p>10th~
-English 2 PreAP
-Reading 2
-Algebra 2 PreAP
-Chemistry PreAP
-AP World History
-Spanish 2 PreAP
-Principles Of Health Science </p>
<p>11th~
-AP English 3
-Reading 3
-Pre-Calculus PreAP Dual Credit
-Physics PreAP
-AP U.S. History
-Spanish 3 PreAP Dual Credit
-Medical Terminology
-AP Psychology (Alternate Course) </p>
<p>12th~
-AP English 4
-AP Calculus Dual Credit (or) AP Statistics
-Anatomy & Physiology H Dual Credit
-AP Biology Dual Credit (or) AP Chemistry Dual Credit
-AP U.S. Government (or) AP Economics (or) AP European History
-AP Spanish 4 Dual Credit
-Health Science </p>
<p>I have only one suggestion, try and switch most of your APs to your junior year instead of your senior year, so that you can have your AP grades and possibly test scores from your APs to show to the colleges. </p>
<p>What matters to selective colleges is that you took the most rigorous curriculum your school offers, which your guidance counselor will indicate on your recommendation–the specific number of APs isn’t nearly as important.</p>
<p>Several high schools across the country have eliminated AP classes, yet students from those schools are admitted every year to all the ivies. There is no set number of AP’s that will gain you admission to any college. What matters is that your guidance counselor checks the “MOST DEMANDING” box when they rank the rigor of your course load on the Secondary School Report (SSR - see top right hand side of page 2 below). For some high schools that could mean lots of honor classes with no AP’s (because the school doesn’t offer them), at other high schools it could be 5 AP’s (because that’s the most that is allowed), and at other high schools it could be 10+ (because that’s what the top 1% of students are taking). See: <a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf</a></p>
<p>FWIW, I got into HYP having taken 3 AP classes. When I was accepted, I was enrolled in 4 more - two in person and two online. My school offered 5 in person AP classes, and I ended up taking 4 of them. </p>
<p>Just for reference, I had took 15 AP tests in high school, eight of which I already had scores for when I applied (and they were all fives). Some of my best friends here at Yale never took any. It all depends on what your school offers and how well you take advantage of the opportunities you have.</p>
<p>This is a random question, but do you guys recommend I take AP Psychology next year or AP Human Geography as a sophomore along with AP European History. Which exam do you guys think is easier and which course is more interesting? I took AP World History this year and it wasn’t difficult so I have some, but little experience in what AP’s are like. </p>
<p>I think it definitely depends on the high school your child attends. Some schools have a lot of AP classes and that is how a child can show that they have taken advantage of a rigorous courseload. Other schools, like my D’s have a intense college curriculum all arouhd and very few AP classes. They are actually moving toward eliminating APs altogether. My daughter only took 3 AP classes - one before applying to college in 11th grade - AP US History. She took AP Latin and AP Statistics her senior year only because that was the level of Latin she had achieved and was her only choice and she is not STEM bound so did not want one of the calculus or higher math classes. Of the 127 kids in her class, many are IVY bound or to other great schools such as Emory, Colorado, Wash University in St. Louis, USC, Vassar, NYU, Wesleyan - just to name a few. Encourage her to take the most rigorous course load her school offers. AdComs will look at that more than a specific number of AP classes.
Good luck to her.</p>