<p>i hate to be the bringer of bad news guys, but unfortunately if you haven't taken all 34 ap classes offered by the collegeboard you have absolutely no shot at brown.</p>
<p>aww shucks.</p>
<p>For the sake of clarity, there is no such thing as a "lesser AP." I've taken 8 AP classes and AP Art History was, by far, the most difficult. No one in our school received an A in APAH. The highest grade was an A- and most students received B's. Unlike most other AP classes, everyone goes into APAH with very little prior background or experience with the subject matter. Plus, the subject matter is difficult. Please do not refer to APAH as a "lesser" AP. If anything, the opposite is true.</p>
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I'll have taken 13 AP classes over the course of high school, but the extremely smart people have taken 20+.
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You're kidding, right?</p>
<p>OP: I took 3 APs last year and am taking 3 this year. My school offers 8 total.
Accepted ED.</p>
<p>Does Brown take Honors courses into account? My school only offers 7 APs: Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, Stat, Comp Sci, Physics, and Bio. I will probably be taking Calc BC, Comp Sci, Bio, and maybe Chem. We don't have AP US History or AP English, but we have a Honors American Studies program for juniors that combines Honors US History and Honors English. Sometimes people take the AP USH exam for this class. Would that count? I would also be taking French III and IV, classes that earn college credit from the University of Washington. We have another program that also earns college credit for seniors through Seattle University that combines Honors English, Honors Social Sci, and Honors Theology. I could probably fit in more APs if my school didn't force us to take 4 years of Theology... Anyways, if anyone could answer my question it would be greatly appreciated! My schedule worries me the most :/</p>
<p>Honors courses should be listed as such on your transcript, so.. yeah.</p>
<p>When your school sends your transcript to Brown, they most likely also send an info sheet about your school, i.e. class size, urban/suburban/rural, median test scores, and the types of courses offered. My school, for example, offers 20 or so AP classes and Honors everything else, and I've taken 9 AP classes and all my other classes were honors with the exception of a journalism elective. That was enough to get me into Brown early decision. If your school offers 20+ APs and you only take 2 or 3, it will probably reflect poorly upon you unless you can provide a good explanation for this. If your school only offers 5, then only taking 1 or 2 should be fine, as your admissions officer will be made aware of the caliber of your school via anecdotal experience with previous applicants, as well as the aforementioned info sheet.</p>
<p>I took one AP sophomore year, one junior year, two this year. Bio, Statistics, Calc, Lit. School offers about 15. Accepted ED.</p>
<p>Relax. Take classes that interest you and/or that take you outside your comfort zone. Do your best and always challenge yourself. The rest will follow. I speak as a high school teacher (honors English and AP Lang & Lit.). Look, I hate to be cynical, but I don't see how you can take 20 APs, unless the school is calling a class "AP" when really it's just an honors class. In the school I teach in, you are only allowed to take an AP course in 10th grade (none as a Freshman), and that class is the first half of a two year AP US History course. Thus, it is physically impossible to take more than 14 AP classes in our school, but literally no one does this. It's just not in our school's culture. Students take things like Choir (which is excellent) or Honors Film appreciation (also top notch) or just plain interesting things like Cooking (the cooking teacher is awesome), in addition to AP classes. I would say the very top students take seven or so AP classes, and the rest honors. And we have plenty of people getting into top schools. While I do think the AP curriculum, done properly, can be fabulous, this AP hyper-focus is nonsense--just marketing hype generated by College Board. It's a huge moneymaker for them. Consider this for a moment-- If you take fake AP classes and, moreover, take these classes just to get into a school you think will like the appearance of you, the fake presentation of yourself--what do you think your experience will be? Not only the immediate experience of running yourself ragged in high school, but also your experience in college, which is based on a fake you? When do you start to do the things you really want to do? What do you want to do?</p>
<p>At our school, the max number of AP's you can take (if you take all the AP's that will fit into your schedule) will end up being 11, 20+ is like, not even possible...I don't think they offer that at our school, so your school must be pretty amazing :)</p>
<p>our school have 25 ap classes</p>
<p>I’ll have taken 13 by the time I graduate… </p>
<p>I think the most possible is like 16 though for our school</p>
<p>I took Anatomy & Physiology Honors (college credit course) over AP Bio because i was more interested in learning specifically about the human body. I noted this in my application. This won’t be held against me would it? A&P may not be an AP class but it is a difficult course.</p>
<p>I only took 7 AP classes by the time I graduate, but I’m also full IB diploma candidate, which takes up my entire schedule. APs aren’t the most important thing at all. Brown, of course, embraces academic exploration in subjects that interest you.</p>
<p>Hmm…this is an old thread.</p>
<p>APs aren’t the end-all of academics. Brown will want to see that you challenged yourself within the context of your program and did well within your program. It doesn’t sound like your program is weaker as a result, and you had a reason for doing so. I took 4 AP courses and wasn’t part of an IB program. However, I took many courses that were above AP level, and I took an accelerated language course (my interests lie partially in languages) instead of taking other AP courses. Brown didn’t hold it against me that I had 4 AP courses when some of my peers had 10 or more because my program was just as strong as theirs and I followed my interests rather than taking every AP exam I could afford. So I wouldn’t worry too much about it, especially since the past is the past.</p>
<p>11 APs, I think 13 are offered at my school, not including languages.</p>
<p>Transcript matters a lot for college admissions. If you check collegedata.com, most colleges place greater emphasis on course difficulty than GPA.</p>
<p>Sometimes it doesn’t matter though. I know it doesn’t matter too much for UCs. My friend’s sister took all regular classes and a few easy APs and got a 4.0+ and got into UCLA.</p>
<p>IMHO I would take the hardest course load available. Not only does it show colleges you like a challenge, but you are pushing your limits and preparing yourself for college.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman at Brown and feel the need to reply to this post. I came to Brown from a small, rural public school that offers 2 APs. I took both of those and one other independently online. I was accepted to Brown RD. </p>
<p>Sure, at top tier schools some of your friends will have taken 20+ APs. Because THAT was a challenging courseload at their high schools (and also because your friends will just be that awesome…duh). Taking 2 APs was the most challenging courseload my high school offered. From my humble experience, as long as you can display a desire to be challenged in your application/transcript/essays you won’t be disadvantaged by number of APs at a school like Brown.</p>
<p>I will have 15 APs by the end of senior year ( human geo, world history, English 3, US history, chemistry, calculus BC, stat, Physics C, government, econ,psych,english 4,french ,bio, envir.science )- I had to take some of them to complete state curr. requirements , I took others because I love those subjects.</p>
<p>I’m only taking 5, but my school only has 6 and 5 is the max possible (underfunded public school).</p>
<p>Colleges look at the rigor of the program that you are taking. They want you to take the classes that are appropriate for you. If your school offers 30 AP courses and you take 4 that may not be considered a rigorous program. On the other hand, if your school offers 4 AP courses and you take all 4, it may be the most rigorous program in your school. I believe that adcoms are able to discern individual programs and can interpret transcripts according to students’ capabilities and the courses that their HS offers. I am not really certain that colleges compare other HS per se. They want to see what the applicants have been able to do with what they are given.</p>
<p>My son will have taken 9 AP classes during high school. However, he is taking multi-variable calculus and linear algebar in senior year, both of which are not AP courses, but are as hard as AP courses. According to him, the multi-variable calculus class is a lot harder than AP Calculus BC (lol).</p>