How many APs would I need?

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I am applying for medical school. How many APs do you think that I should take? I make sure that I get 5s on all the APs that I take. I am in my sophomore summer and I am gonna be a junior next year.

I apply to college at the beginning of senior year. So, without including all the APs that I take senior year, I have 4 APs. I took AP Chemistry last year, and this year I am gonna take AP Biology, AP Physics 1, and AP Psychology. I am really into these sciences so I am pretty confident that my score and exams are good.

But, all my friends have 7 APs before applying and they consist of things like AP World, AP Lang and Comp, and AP US History. But, I only have 4 before I apply.

Do colleges look at the AP Courses that you are gonna take senior year? Does that add to the AP count? Because, if they do, I will have 9 total APs for high school. All my SATs and unweighted GPA and grades and AP Scores are good, but I am really worried about my AP count because everyone else I know at least 3 more APs than me. I am not that good at English and history so I limited those APs.

Can someone tell me if my AP count is good enough for applying to something like John Hopkins and uPenn Medical School vs Rutgers or RWJ Medical School.

Thank you so much.

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There is no magic number and it depends on the rigor of your school. If your school only offers 3 APs and you take them all you are good. If your school offers 20 and you take 3 an AO may question if you challenged yourself.

Please keep in mind, you are not applying to medical school now and how many APs you take in HS will not affect your medical school application. You will apply to med school after your undergrad and taking the MCATs. No one can chance you for medical school now.

Also even to chance you for undergrad there is so much more than just number of AP classes. GPA, Class Ranks, ACTs or SATs, ECs,…

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Ok. I ll keep that in mind @123Mom456 . Thank you so much.

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You won’t get into any medical school right now. For med school you need MCAT and be a college student. Other than that there is no magic number to get in. Depends on how good you are overall as a person, and a scholar. Take the AP’s that interest you. Don’t take them just because of college. Be a good student that strives to better him/herself in the particular field. Challenge yourself and have fun, bc life gets difficult.