<p>My school offers 20 AP courses, and by the end of senior year I will have taken 5. I know a rigorous schedule is very important, but the way I see it, I couldn't really take many AP's if I WANTED to!</p>
<p>There are a bunch of required courses at my school (no AP's allowed freshman/soph year, and unless you placed into a high level of math and science before freshman year, you can't take AP math or science until senior year...I'm one of those people, but opted not to take either because I'm not exactly a math person! But, I'm in an honors science.) So, I'm taking an AP language, English, and history senior year, and I did two AP's junior year. The other AP's are just variations that are basically either/ors. I mean, I'm not going to take three languages during high school, so there goes 5 AP credits that I automatically can't have! And I don't have Studio Art or Java, so another 2 credits...lol. And there are about a gazillion choices of AP maths, but I'm not taking any of those. </p>
<p>Will schools understand this?! I'm freakin out!</p>
<p>Most high schools send out a profile along with every student's application. This profile explains the structure of the school, its requirements and grading policies, and often a breakdown of how many students take APs and what grades they get. </p>
<p>AP classes are definitely one of those things that are evaluated in the context of your school. If your school doesn't give you the chance to take 15 APs, you will not be penalized for it in the college application process. </p>
<p>For example, my school offers no official AP classes and I got into a bunch of schools having only taken 1 AP test.</p>
<p>It all depends on what you want to do I guess. For example, I want to be a natural science major. My school offers a huge load of APs as well, but I'm not taking AP Studio Art, music theory, euro history, french, spanish, latin, german (mainly humanities courses, but I have taken English lang and U.S. History, and have signed up for Eng. Lit).</p>
<p>If you have taken a courseload that is as difficult as you got it to be, I'm pretty sure schools will understand. The most important APs are the core AP classes like Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English (Lit more than Lang), and the histories.</p>
<p>Hi i go to a vocational school which focuses on medical fields because i would like to apply to a college for medicine. My vocational school has only 1 AP course which is AP Calculus AB. Although the school should be stronger in sciences, it doesnt have AP sciences, but has "college-level" sciences instead. The "college-level" sciences only allow me to earn credits with a small community college with no real reputation. However this vocational school allows me to take medical based electives like anatomy and physiology. </p>
<p>I want to know if i should return to my home school, which has a good reputation and has plenty of AP courses for me to take but no medical electives, or if i should stay in the vocational school which doesnt have much of a repuation or AP courses, but has medical electives.</p>
<p>I dont think my electives from my vocational school will be accepted by my home school, so i think my electives will be a year behind if i transfer back. Also i would appreciate any suggestions of how i could compensate for any lack of AP courses my school doesnt offer.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!!</p>
<p>I think AP courses are used more for placement once you're admitted rather than who gets in and who doesn't.</p>