<p>I would have taken 10 APs by the time I end high school. Most above average (Acc/AP track) take at least 3-8. There's maybe...10 kids tops (out of mid-300s) in out class that will be taking more than 8. After being on this forum... I find this quite pitiful because our school offers, I think, around 20 APs. Then again, Freshmen (in the JHS building) are not allowed to take APs and Sophmores are strongly, very, very strongly, discouraged from taking more than 1 (AP Euro).</p>
<p>i would be taking 8 by next year and i think that thats alot.. in my opinion, about 5 aps would be "norm" but its all relative becuase it depends on your school... mine will only let juniors and seniors take aps and you need special permission to take more than 4 in a year</p>
<p>My school only offers 5 different AP courses, all of which I am taking. I am going to a different area school to take AP German, which is not offered at my school, and I'm self-studying for 2. This gives me a total of 8 AP tests. Is this enough to give me a competitive position for the Ivies? There has been a lot of discussion about what is standard, but not a lot about what top colleges are looking for...</p>
<p>I've never thought about totaling them before, but by the time I graduate I will have taken...</p>
<p>seven. i'm a humanities kid by nature, so that, i suppose, explains how my total is lower than some.</p>
<p>Are you kidding? There are way more AP humanities.</p>
<p>lang
lit
gov
comp gov
human geo
psych(is this part of the rest?)
world
US</p>
<p>I'm a science guy, so by the time I will have only 6: bio, chem, physics C, BC calc, world, art history.</p>
<p>I would have taken more had I not taken an internship during the school day for my senior year (4 rather than 7 periods of classes).</p>
<p>Oh, and seven is not bad at all. Colleges like to see you take a hard courseload. You don't have to take 7 APs. With just 4 APs, I'd say you have a good chance.</p>
<p>The only AP's at my school are:
AP Eng Lang-taken, only offered junior
AP Eng Lit-have to take lang before
AP Span Lang -taken
AP Stat-will take
AP Calc AB
AP French
APUSH-only offered junior year, hardest class at school.
AP Art
AP Chem-have to take regular chem before
AP Bio
You cannot take honors or ap classes in the humanities until junior year.
Honors Classes We have:
Geometry
Advanced Algebra
Spanish-taken
US History-taken
Advanced Exposition-taken
Integrated Science3/4-taken
Physiology-taken
Physics-will take</p>
<p>Basically, i'll only take 4/5 "AP's" and 5 honors classes, and 3 college classes in mandarin. It sucks that the only advanced history courses are US.</p>
<p>AP's are restricted to juniors and seniors here. I've taken 6. I don't know any graduating senior who's taken 6+.</p>
<p>I think the average for an "Ivy" at my school is 8-11.
I think I'm cool because I'm taking more :)</p>
<p>But of course, at my school, the honors program is not very challenging, and the humanities honors courses have higher "accelerated" versions that are termed AP.</p>
<p>Potentially I could have fifteen/sixteen highest-level classes by graduation (some would be IBs).
How difficult is a full-AP course schedule? I get the sense that it's absolutely killer, but everyone has told me since first grade that next year was going to be The Hard One, that it's going to get Impossible, that my teachers will Crack Down on Grading. It hasn't happened yet.</p>
<p>Well, the number of APs you should take depends on the context of your school, and by your school, you have a lot of work to do. My school doesn't offer too many APs but I am self studying so if everything goes well I'll get the AP Nat'l scholar thing. </p>
<p>A full AP course schedule could be indicating that you are willing to challenge yourself, but it could also kill your high school career. Many brilliant kids take too many APs than they could handle and it often lands them their first C or D. Happens every year. </p>
<p>Colleges say they want you to challenge yourself, but not to the point it will seriously affect your GPA. Remember GPA > Rigor by a long shot.</p>
<p>It's like a balancing act, I guess. Ahh!</p>
<p>I've heard that they compare the number of APs that you have taken to the number offered at your school. I hope this is true, because my school only offers 5 AP classes...</p>
<p>That would be awful. My school offers a ridiculous amount of AP classes-- simply too many for anyone to take!</p>
<p>the average is probably around 1. Those of us who take APs, are smart kids. We have to realize that. Look at the numbers of APs taken. Its less than a million a year. We underestimate ourselves too much, were all brilliant kids here on cc</p>
<p>That's true. Sometimes when I see people here call a three-AP courseload "light" I just have to stop and marvel at how different this community is from the overwhelming majority of high school kids.</p>
<p>Yeah, I consider my self an idiot because Im only taking 3 aps by the end of junior year, but i give my self a tiny bit of credit because they are self studied</p>
<p>Ummm....I took 1 AP junior year (this year) and am taking 4 APs senior year. That's alot. Those with 8, 10, 12....well...that's grossly excessive...God bless you.</p>
<p>The major problem that I see is that high school honors courses have nothing honorable about them. I could probably sleep through most of them. If honors classes were somewhat harder or more insightful, I think there would be less people taking 10+ APs. Plus, Ivies always say, "Applicants should take the hardest course load available." For me, that's 14 APs.</p>
<p>Y'know, I used to think 8 was a lot. After coming to CC, I've seen that there are tons of students who've taken way more; I even saw someone who took 22. D::::</p>
<p>I was originally going to take an all AP course load (6-7 AP courses senior year), but I settled on a total of 11 (2 soph, 4 jun, 5 sen).</p>