<p>my school offeres 12-13 and i took 8</p>
<p>@midwestDad2:</p>
<p>Almost ditto for my S. By gradaution, 10 APs plus linear algebra (jr year) and multivariable calculus (sr year.) Yup, those math classes are APs on steroids, LOL!</p>
<p>What wasn’t funny was when we discovered there was no weight given to those classes. So his GPA would have been enhanced taking … AP Stats? Sheesh! We’re banking on the Ad Comms noticing the rigor of the classes he took. So what if he’s sal? We and he could give a rat’s ass.</p>
<p>My S is interested in integrated science, looking at physics. How about yours?</p>
<p>This is why colleges don’t blindly look at the GPA, they look at the whole transcript. Too many students take courses in such a way to maximize their GPA that the colleges have to look at more to get any sort of a full picture. I took multivariable calculus and linear algebra as a junior in high school, followed by differential equations and a course on fractals and chaos theory as a senior, and there’s no question that they were more difficult than BC Calculus or Statistics, but they were weighted the same as every other course, including African Drumming (known as the ultimate slacker music course), in calculating our “term averages” (essentially a GPA). Besides…if a college truly doesn’t notice the rigor of the classes the applicants took, do you really want your children going there?</p>
<p>In my school , many kids take calculus AB instead of BC , to get a better grade. same goes for Physics . </p>
<p>Taking difficult classes( I do 8 classes- I don’t get credit for one ) brings down my GPA !!</p>
<p>I am the only one in my grade who took all the science & math APs offered by school-</p>
<p>Jmed - coming from a school with a less rigorous curriculum, did you find Brown to be challenging/difficult to adjust to?</p>
<p>Are people actually serious about taking 15 or 20+ APs? Is that even possible? At my school, which is an extremely competitive public school, the max anyone ever takes I think is 12, and those are like the super smart but geeky Asian kids who are really good at math and science. 10 is already a lot, IMO.</p>
<p>i just got accepted i have no idea. but i anticipate it too be much more challenging!!!</p>
<p>At my school, a mega-competitive private school, you are only allowed to take 3 per year, and are only allowed to start taking them in 11th grade, so 6 is max. I took 5. I got accepted ED. I had no clue kids at other schools were taking 10+… I didn’t even know there were that many non-language APs lol.</p>
<p>I’ll have done 19 AP’s by the time I graduate.</p>
<p>My D’s large public school has kids who have 8 after their Junior year…then of course they take at least 5-6 in their senior year. </p>
<p>My D started at another (also large public) high school that was just starting an IB program and she WAS going to do IB, so they REQUIRED that you start with an AP class in 9th. So she took 1 in 9th, 1 in 10th, 2 in 11th, and 4 in 12th. That will be 8 and it makes her VERY VERY average at her school. She’s barely even within the top 10% rank. But her schools don’t have the rules yours does, AND they offer over 30 classes. I’d never even HEARD of “self studying” until CC.</p>
<p>Bottom line…high schools are VERY different. That’s why we see some schools sending MANY to ivies (etc.) …they know they’re “prepared” for college if they came from the top tier of those elite private high schools.</p>
<p>As long as anyone can still clear the bar…you can bet it will continue to be raised.</p>
<p>My school gives AP classes to anything that walks.</p>
<p>I have 6 this year, most of which aren’t challenging at all.</p>
<p>@light up the sky</p>
<p>yes and no. i kept myself pretty busy throughout high school (work, theatre etc) so i had already learned valuable time management skills. as far as rigor of academics, yes brown is hard. and no, i’m probably not the most prepared student there. however, because of my background i’m excited to be faced with a challenge. i didn’t go to brown expecting it to be easy. luckily, i spent a lot of time searching out other opportunities in high school (beyond what my school offered) so the workload at brown wasn’t shocking or overwhelming (plus there are tons of great resources for help in any way).</p>
<p>My large public high school sends about ten each year to Brown, and most people aren’t allowed to take APs til junior year. The record in my school for APs is 9. The average Brown admit takes 6. It all depends on when the courses are offered and how they are designated. Lots of schools let kids take AP Calculus twice - first as AB then as BC. Other schools count Geography as an AP. Though Geography students at my school generally take the test, no one considers it an AP. Brown considers everyone in the context of their high school. If your high school offers a lot of APs and people don’t take as many then that might indicate that your school is just as good as any other, but more restrictive with AP course registration.</p>
<p>so our school provides only 5 or 4
and if i took only 3 ap’s and individually took 2(study by myself and take ap exam) or more ap’s. so if i have 5to 6 ap’s can i go Brown university?? pliz i found out that brown and RISD have some agreement… so we can go both school with spending 5 yrs. so iwant to go both school… and what minimum of sat score aloud to go brown?</p>
<p>I’ve only taken 5 AP’s throughout high school!! Everyone on here is crazy!!! Then again, our school only offered about 8 this year. We didn’t even have AP science classes.</p>
<p>But yeah they take into account the number of AP classes your school offers.</p>
<p>By the time I graduate I will have taken 8 APs. I took 5 APs this year (only me and one other student out of 500 in my class did so) and at my school, it’s really hard to get into ap classes before senior year. I really challenged myself every year and I got into Brown!</p>
<p>I find it unneccassary and pointless for people to be taking more than 7 AP classes. My private school only allows students to take 3 a year. Taking more than 4 will not make your chances to get into Brown any better. I took 1 Junior year and 4 Senior year (special exception made for me). And same with many other kids at my school and they get into Ivies. If you take more than 7 APs you are a freak</p>
<p>I took 10 out of 20 that were offered. However, some of those are art and foreign language related. Just try to have a schedule that looks very competitive. Honestly, what I would do was compare my classes to those of others in my class, and if it wasn’t just as good or better… I’d add more. Brown wants to see how you compare to others around you, how rigorous your classes are (big one), and how much of your resources you take advantage of. </p>
<p>On the school report, Brown is able to see how many AP’s are offered at your school and the valedictorian’s GPA. As a result, it’d be best to do as much as you can. Test scores aren’t everything, either. Your GPA is very respectable… don’t let that upset you at all.</p>
<p>In the Netherlands we have a curious system; all my classes are AP level. We begin, when we’re 12, with all possible courses, and then limit those down in the following six years (yes, Dutch secondary school lasts 6 years :)). It was really hard filling in my application, though, because we do not rank or have GPA’s.</p>
<p>We have no AP classes.</p>