<p>I just find it incredible that some people take upwards of 15 APs...
My school wouldn't even allow it, regardless of talent.</p>
<p>By the time I graduate, I’ll have taken 7, possibly 8. </p>
<p>AP World History (Soph)</p>
<p>AP Psych
AP Lang and Comp
AP Art (Junior)</p>
<p>AP Bio
AP Comparative Gov
AP Stats or AP Calc
AP Latin (?)
^ (Senior year)</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of anyone taking more than 10 APs. O.o (Usually 2 soph year, 4 each junior and senior year… And those kids are crazy haha.) I go to a college prep school where the “slackers” take honors classes, so taking my amount is above average altogether but still average for about 40% of the school. I’ve heard that people who take a few APs and scoring 5s, however, are looked at as more favorable than people with 6+ that have lower scores… Take as many as you can not only handle but succeed in?</p>
<p>I took 7 this year, possibly 11-13 next year.</p>
<p>The number of AP classes you take doesn’t matter … as long as you’re taking the hardest course load YOUR school allows you to take, then you’re fine.</p>
<p>In any case, I took 4 sophomore year (Calc BC, Chem, Chinese, World History), 5 junior year (Bio, Eng Lang, Physics B, Stats, US History), and 6 senior year (Art Hist, Econ, Eng Lit, Gov, Physics C, Psych).</p>
<p>but how will they recognize that?</p>
<p>I took none.</p>
<p>The most somebody has ever taken at my school is 17. He went to Princeton. </p>
<p>I will have taken 7 by the time I graduate, and 2 “post-AP” Classes.</p>
<p>World History, US History, Chemistry, Calculus AB, Computer Science, English Literature, Economics, and US Government. I only took the history, calculus, and chemistry tests and got 23 credits for my scores :D</p>
<p>Is 13 in one year a lot?
I plan to finish all the APs that I can manage.</p>
<p>13 in ONE year??? uh yeah that’s a lot</p>
<p>Took three junior year, taking five senior year. </p>
<p>So a total of eight by the time I graduate.
And yeah, I always wonder how other people can do 15+ APs, I don’t think my school can even allow that.</p>
<p>Why would a school not allow a student to take as many APs as he wants?</p>
<p>Is the school worried about a student not passing? Is it a teacher scheduling issue? Does it cost the school more money?</p>
<p>14… Damn 17. I thought I was over the top… guess not</p>
<p>with some schools, it’s a problem to do with resources. at the other end of the spectrum, elite private schools want to make sure their programs are as rigorous as possible, so they limit who can take what. an AP at one of those schools would be much different than one in your average school</p>
<p>Yeah, the state AP scholars usually have around 21-23.
I have 19, and christiansoldier has 20.</p>
<p>“elite private schools want to make sure their programs are as rigorous as possible, so they limit who can take what”</p>
<p>How does limiting the number of students taking AP courses make their program more rigorous?</p>
<p>“an AP at one of those schools would be much different than one in your average school”</p>
<p>The passing rate for AP courses is mostly determined by the quality of teaching in a given course since the curriculum would be standard across all schools. In fact, at the so-called elite schools, the student quality should theoretically be better than an “average” school so wouldn’t the passing rate be higher anyway?</p>
<p>“it’s a problem to do with resources”</p>
<p>This is probably the best answer. Schools don’t want to pay to train the teachers and don’t like the hassle of not having control of curriculum.</p>
<p>By limiting, you yield higher scores.</p>
<p>Yep, I agree with the resources part.</p>
<p>There is a thread in the hs forum that talks about what students dislike about their schools. This is addressed. Many schools do not offer AP’s until the Jr year and/or may limit the number taken in years beyond that. The universities are aware of this. </p>
<p>A student who has only one available their soph year, and is limited to three their Jr/Sr year would be limited to 7 total APs. They would not be ‘looked’ down on, or judged against, a student that had APs available from their freshman year without restrictions where 12-15 APs were the norm. The student who took 7 APs at the second school would have the less desirable schedule.</p>
<p>By the time I graduate, I’ll have taken;
AP Environmental Science (9)*
AP US government (10)*
AP European History (10)*
AP Comparative Govt (11)*
AP English Composition (11)
AP World History (11)
AP Literature (12)
AP Calculus (not sure which one yet) (12)
AP US History (12)
AP Spanish (12)
AP Chemistry (12)
for a grand total of 11, with the * being self-studied. My school offers 3 more (French, Psych, and Biology) but for scheduling and other reasons I won’t be able to take those (there’s a policy of only allowing juniors + seniors to take AP’s in a class 
)</p>
<p>@givings</p>
<p>limiting the classes to the brightest bunch allows the program to avoid any watering down. there exist schools where pretty much anyone can take APs - they might get 1’s, but that’s what the difference is.</p>
<p>@henrymoore:
how do you take so many APs? what proportion of them do you self-study, if any? otherwise, how do you fit ~20 APs into your schedule?</p>