<p>I see people claiming 9 aps...my daugher's Catholic school has 2 aps (language / science) for sophmores, same for juniors and 5 for seniors (2 in same study area- history (all students MUST take religion all four years) - so most you can take realistically is 8 and usually ap calculas takes do not take ap world history, as it is, my daughter needs to take gym in the summer to get ap history next year as a junior!!!.....lots of honor classes, which are weighted....how do kids get all those ap classes in? or is there some slight exageration going on..</p>
<p>generally larger the school , more the AP's offered. my first public hs offered 12 AP's from freshman to senior. where as my current private hs only offers 2 AP's.</p>
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<p>Good private schools in my area and certainly the NYC and Boston schools, have 20 plus APs as do the New England prep schools I've been researching. There is no limit to how many you can take what years at these schools, so my freshmen took 2 and 3 APs.</p>
<p>When it comes to AP, catholic schools tend to measure the relative importance of AP versus their curriculum. Catholic schools also look at the additional financial burden to families, offer fewer AP classes, and force the students enrolled in AP classes to take the exams. </p>
<p>On the other hand, many large public schools play fast and loose with the AP program: they offer numerous watered-down honor and AP classes and do not impose restrictions on enrollment or exams. From my vantage point, I always have to smile at schools that offer 20-30 AP to a group of students unable to crack 1000 on the SAT. </p>
<p>In a perfect world, colleges should be able to analyze the different curriculum, recalculate the ridiculously high GPA, and remove AP GPA boost that are not supported by a 4 or 5 on the exams. The reality is that this does not happen at most colleges that use simplistic acceptance models. </p>
<p>Sadly enough, most catholic schools hurt the chances of the students by insisting on tougher grading policies and adherence to a strong curriculum.</p>
<p>Our local, public high school offers 27 AP courses. Our average SAT scores are 555 math and 542 verbal with 88% of the seniors taking the exam. On the AP tests, 85% score 3 or higher. (all the info. is taken from our schools profile page)</p>
<p>Marble, thank you for confirming my position. </p>
<p>Listing the statistics of seniors only is mostly trivial without the complete report of all AP taken by all students in HS. I realize that a score of 3 represents a passing grade for an AP exam but most selective schools are interested in scores of 4 or 5.</p>
<p>The private school my sons attend (~550 students, non-parochial) currently offers 24 AP classes (and students taking an AP class are <em>required</em> to sit for the exam in the spring). All APs have pre-reqs or require faculty approval. By the time my son graduates, he will have taken 10 APs, and he is by no means the most AP-intense student in his class of 123.</p>
<p>The average SAT score of last year's graduating class was 1395 (it has risen for this year's class but I do not have the figure with me). 279 students in the school took 695 AP exams in 2003. The average AP score was 4.26, with over 80% of those testing receiving a 4 or 5. Over 50% of those taking AP tests earned AP scholar awards. (Stats from the school website and School Profile.)</p>
<p>At least the honors classes are weighted, so the gpa can rise.....ours is a very cometitive prep school that does place kids everywhere, so not so many ap's doesn't seem to hurt...the schools rep is great....and its a the school size is 1400....i was just curious...our honors classes are pretty tough....in my daughters middle school a 92 is a B!!</p>
<p>How many subject has you all done in highschool?
Ive have done 25 subjects</p>
<p>This has been interesting, there is some discussion regarding this on the Parents Forum,,, much difference in schools...I am trusting my daughter's school knows what it is doing as many kids go to IVY and more...</p>
<p>I go to an avg. public high school, where 5 out of 450 students going to ivys is practically a miracle. We have ap bio, ap chem, ap physic C (both), ap calculus ab, ap calculus bc, ap european history, ap us history, ap us government, ap german 5, ap spanish 5, ap french 5, ap computer science ab, ap english literature </p>
<p>total: 14 though it's impossible to take all 14, most possible for 1 student to take is 11, and I'll graduate with 8 or 9.</p>
<p>My school has 10 APs, but their UC-approved course list lies and lists 15 APs. I've taken 5 courses, 6 tests total (as of May).</p>
<p>my school only has 7</p>
<p>THis all is making sense, when I hear people who have taken 10 ap,s it makes me wonder...</p>
<p>my school has 15+ ap's</p>
<p>Hmm you all haven't so much subject as in the netherlands.
In the netherlands we must compulsory take 16 subjects</p>
<p>let's see...my school offers:</p>
<p>ap biology
ap chemistry
ap english language
ap english literature
ap calculus AB
ap environmental science
ap govt comparative
ap govt US
ap spanish language
ap spanish literature</p>
<p>mine has a measly 6. AP calc, bio, english, lit, USH, Euro, and non AP government, which you can take the AP test for, but is not an AP class. school of like 170-190 kids.</p>
<p>5</p>
<p>biology
chemistry
physics B
us history
calculus BC</p>