How much Ap is enough?

Applying to College
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Hey everyone,
I am currently a junior. Our county doesn’t allow freshmens to take Ap’s. Sophmore year, I only took one because Ap world history was the only ap offered to sophmores. Junior year, I am taking two Ap’s (world history and language). Senior year, due to certain complications, I am going to take only two Ap’s (American literature and Us government). My question is: is there anyone who got into top elite universities that took the same or a lower amount of Ap’s? My friends are all taking about four or five senior year, so I think I would come off a non-competitive individual.

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Colleges look at you in the context of your school. And probably if you are only taking 2 APs then probably an IVY League school would not accept you. But they probably won’t accept your friends either, because they only accept about 6% of applicants. Focus on schools where you are at about at least at 75%tile of GPA/SAT for best chance at merit money.

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Where do you live? I’m in California. I took AP world history in sophomore year, AP US history and AP Lang in junior year, and I’m taking AP Psycholgy and AP Government now as a senior. Most of my friends did the same. As long as you do well in all of those classes and get good test scores, UC’s will accept you (I don’t know if you consider this top elite). But all of the people I know that were accepted to UPenn, Stanford, and Berkeley took more AP classes.

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@funnylovesz I live at Georgia. UC as in University of California? I’m going to apply to the Ivy universities just to take the chance. However, I would love to attend prestigious universities that are not ivy ranked but will still be able to offer an excellent education.

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@bopper I wouldn’t be surprised if my friends got accepted to an Ivy League. They are all the best of the best (when compared to our graduating class). Anyways, I agree with your reasoning.

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They judge you in the context of your school so just try to take as many APs as you can at your school and don’t worry about people on the Internet who are able to take more APs than you.