I’m looking forward to applying for Imperial College London for either Statistics or Mechanical Engineering.
The school website tells me that I should have at least 3 AP scores of five.
I have exactly three, which are Micro, Macroeconomics, and Calculus BC.
And I have five other AP scores of 4 (Physics 1, Statistics, World History, Lang, and Computer Science)
Do the scores of 4 help my application? Are these AP scores enough to get into ICL?
Does Imperial count Micro and Macro as separate APs? Not all the UK schools consider them differently.
Not sure about the 4s, but I don’t think you’d want your app to show more 4s than 5s.
I don’t think the 4s will be good enough, and as usualhopeful notes, they will count the two economics APs as one. They won’t be interested in your history or language APs.
Can you retake Physics (which they specifically ask UK students to take at A level for Engineering), and perhaps do Chemistry next year? It won’t matter that you don’t have the grades in hand when applying, as long as your teacher’s rec predicts that you will get the score, but if you got an offer it would be conditional on getting that score.
By statistics, do you mean Mathematics with Statistics? Have you done math beyond Calc AP? I ask because they ask UK candidates to offer both Maths and Further Maths A levels, which is some way beyond AP level.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/courses/mathematics-department/mathematics-with-statistics-bsc/
What less demanding universities are you looking at?
Ditto @Conformist1688, and am also pretty sure that the 4 in Physics will nix you for Engineering.
It’s important to remember that there is getting in- and then there is doing the course. They will expect you to be at the level of the other students, who will have done Physics and Further Maths (see their syllabi [here[/url] and [url=<a href=“http://www.cie.org.uk/images/202925-2016-syllabus.pdf]here[/url]-”>http://www.cie.org.uk/images/202925-2016-syllabus.pdf]here](http://www.cie.org.uk/images/164526-2016-2018-syllabus.pdf)- you have to wade through a bit). If you pull up the past papers you will get an idea of what your classmates will have already studied. There are no course options in first year, so you have to be ready to work at that level.
Also, go re-read those course descriptions: they are pretty different. Be sure you really, really want whichever one you choose.
They likely mean calc bc, physics C, plus another science, all with 5.
I don’t think they’d consider your application with these AP subjects and scores.