<p>As of now - the end of my junior year - I have taken two APs (English Language and US History) and one college course (Anthropology). Because of scheduling conflicts I may not be able to take AP Biology next year (and was told not to as requirements at my school have changed to 3 chapters + paper / week in the summer and I'm going to be too busy working 2 jobs to save for college...), so I might end up with 2 APs (English Lit and Euro History) and one spring college course (most likely Arabic). </p>
<p>Will colleges look down on me for having so few APs (planned major: Arabic/Psych)? My school only lets us take APs starting in junior year (with senior year as a requirement for half of them), so I already feel like I'm behind most of you...</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>the amount of aps doesnt matter as much as how many you took out of how many are available to you. If you’re only going to have 4 by graduation, but the most anyone can take in your school is 5, then thats fine. If youre able to take 12 however, that doesn’t look so good.</p>
<p>I think we have 10 total, but for AP Art and AP Computers you have to take like 4 pre-req courses that I didn’t have time to take. (I was only able to have 2 non-core subjects a year, and one of those was always spanish…)
The only way to get into AP Calc is to take Honors Pre Calc, which my GC wouldn’t let me do due to scheduling conflicts. So out of the APs that I would actually be able to take, I would have 4/7 APs…plus 1 or two college courses I took through Dual Enrollment (and got A - B+)</p>
<p>But they won’t see it that way will they? :(</p>
<p>also, could higher SAT scores make up for less APs (see above)?</p>
<p>I’m worried about a similar issue my school offers 6 AP courses I will have taken 4 by the end of senior year. AP Psych, AP English Lit, AP Chem, and AP U.S. History. Are you implying that colleges will look favorably on me taking 4 out of 6 AP courses offered at my school? Or will they see that I like the quantity others have… I see some people on here with 12 :O</p>
<p>Quantity does not matter THAT much. Rigor of your high school schedule does. If you took the most challenging classes you possibly could have at your school, then you’re fine. My school only offers a few APs, and you’re only allowed to take them in your junior and senior year (1 AP only in junior year). Therefore, I graduated with only 3 APs - but that was the most rigorous schedule available to me.</p>
<p>I did well with the college admissions process…so trust me, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Quality of AP’s is also being looked at now as well. AP Chem or Bio will be looked at more favorably than Psych for instance.</p>
<p>You need to be keeping up with or surpassing your peers. There’s not a national standard.</p>
<p>Do dual enrollment classes during the school year positively affect how admissions would look at my application? I took one this semester and got a good grade, and hope to take one next semester, in addition to the 2-3 APs / 1 Honors I’ll be taking next year (which honestly is a rigorous course load at my school).</p>
<p>Yes dual enrollment also shows you’re taking a rigorous courseload. Basically, colleges wanna see that you challenged yourself as much as you could. Based on the information you’ve posted, I think you’ve done that, so I don’t think you should worry.</p>
<p>If your high school offers four AP courses and you took all four (including English Literature and Calculus BC), it probably looks better than if it offers twenty and you took the following five: Physics B, Statistics, Environmental Science, Psychology, and a language that you are a native speaker of.</p>
<p>Dual enrollment or other college courses taken during high school are also favorable, assuming you took decent ones (not “physics for poets” and similar types of courses).</p>
<p>I would concur with the previous posters. My son’s school only offered 6 total AP classes and 5 of them only to juniors and seniors. AP English could only be taken by a senior due to pre-req’s. My son ended up taking 5 of the 6 offered and was accepted to Northwestern and waitlisted to Brown and Yale. He was accepted to Yale off the waitlist. I would also think that classes such as Calculus, Physics, Biology and Chemistry would be better than History, Psychology or Stats.</p>
<p>I took Anthropology as a dual enrollment…my HS has this thing about not allowing us to take subjects at our CC that are offered at the HS, which eliminates all the supposedly “harder” college courses the CC offers lol.</p>