<p>I have to say that I agree with many of the above posters that, while these awards are impressive, they have to be taken in context. For example, the public high school near me offer a myriad of APs and allow students to take them as the student sees fit, while my private school does not allow any APs until junior year, does not allow for self-study, and only allows students to take six classes a year. Therefore, such an award is impossible. I would also like to add that our classes are infanetly harder than the public school classes. This is not meant to discredit the award, but to give some perspective, as my schools sends many students to Ivy’s, but no one can achieve this award as a junior.</p>
<p>They should have a separate award for self-studiers, haha. I’ll have self-studied al 8 of my AP’s by the end of junior year, and I guarantee I worked harder than people who took the classes.</p>
<p>I’m going to be taking 8 AP courses next year (senior year) before putting myself through living hell is it really worth it for college to get these awards senior year?</p>
<p>You don’t get the award until the fall (~October) after the May test. So, for college admissions the award won’t help.</p>
<p>What may help
- If taking 8 AP courses means your guidance counselor says (on the college app) that you’re taking the most difficult course load
- If you do well on those exams and the university you’re going to grants credit for AP exams, you could end up with a good bit of credit.</p>
<p>Yeah it depends on the context of the school, at my school probably 10-20% of kids have taken 4-5+ APs by the end of Junior year. I’ll be a scholar by Junior year no problem (1 in 9th, 2 in 10th, 5 in 11th and probably 3 APs + 1 IB in 12th) taking 8 APs in one year is way different then it being spread out over 3.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Sorry, it still is not clear to me whether being an AP Scholar is important on a college application, in 2011. </p>
<p>How important are AP classes in general for getting into elite colleges?</p>
<p>Can someone tell me whether it is worth taking AP classes in sophomore or junior year of high school, with the goal of becoming an AP scholar? </p>
<p>Best regards,
Walt</p>
<p>To FBItomboy 007: I’m proud to say I go to a public school, and I can’t stand it when kids who go to private schools claim to have “superior” educations. At least I can spell “infinitely.” That’s something I learned in school, but I guess you wouldn’t know because you’re classes are so much “harder.”</p>
<p>By quickly adding up all of the juniors who attained national AP Scholar according to the collegeboard data, I came to a total of almost 2000. </p>
<p>The highest concentrations of AP scholars can be found in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Texas it seems.</p>
<p>"To FBItomboy 007: I’m proud to say I go to a public school, and I can’t stand it when kids who go to private schools claim to have “superior” educations. At least I can spell “infinitely.” That’s something I learned in school, but I guess you wouldn’t know because you’re classes are so much “harder.”</p>
<p>No need to be such a prick about it though. I go to a public school and agree with you too, but there’s no need to be insulting him/her for it. FBI was just making a comment, I’m pretty sure, and he/she is right about taking everything in context.</p>
<p>Also, it would appear that while you can spell “infinitely,” you cannot spell “your.”</p>
<p>To the poster earlier, you can put them on college applications if you want, but I doubt it’s worth much. I received my AP award today.</p>
<p>So it’s true that you do NOT have to be a State AP Scholar to become a National AP Scholar?</p>
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<p>State is more difficult than National. National is merely 8 with a score of 4+ and an average of 4 on all taken, while State is the highest # of exams with >3 in your state, then the highest average as a tiebreaker.</p>
<p>12 from my school this year, a few more than last. I believe my SD had like 18 total.</p>
<p>do you think its important to get the national ap scholar title?
im a sophomore and ive already taken 1 ap exam in my freshman year.
im planning to take 2-4 this year and obviously based on that, take another few to get my 8 ap exams.
it seems stressful and i dont know if i can handle it.
i mean is there a difference between taking 8 ap exams and 6?
should i go for the 8?</p>