Importance of AP's

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Sorry to keep bugging JHU people with questions O_O.</p>

<p>Btw, I'm not taking AP's for better chances, I just want to get a fun(I like comp sci, math, and bio, sue me), challenging course load. O_O</p>

<p>I was just wondering if a student would be recognized if they took AP's their senior year (AP bio, comp sci, calc BC, lit, and stat).</p>

<p>However, I have only been in two honors courses throughout the course of 9th, 10th, and 11th grade.</p>

<p>The problem would be that I would have no AP exam or scores, other than the grades from my first semester of senior year, to hand through my application.</p>

<p>Is JHU harsh or strict on AP's taken throughout high school? Also, would my problem significantly hurt me in my application?</p>

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<p>i would try 2 as many AP classes as u could
not only could they help u but youll get better prepared for college work</p>

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<p>I chose 5 AP's total (I wasn't recommended for Gov't/Economics).</p>

<p>However, these are courses I will be taking my senior year.</p>

<p>Like I said earlier, by the time I find out if JHU accepted me or not, I will still have yet to take the AP exams, which are in May.</p>

<p>I'm probably applying ED, even though I haven't had an interview and visit yet, which I plan on scheduling for tomorrow. So all that would show up on my transcript are my first semester grades.</p>

<p>Although I've developed the dedication and competence over the years to begin taking AP courses, I'm afraid I'm too late compared to the hundreds of other, high-caliber ED applicants.</p>

<p>I just wanted to know if my not taking AP's from 9th to 11th grade will hurt me if it had nothing to do with a lack of desire for challenging courses nor competence. It's really my school's system, where it's almost impossible to take AP's until your senior year. Unless it's AP Euro or US History, both of which I had little interest for during my sophmore and junior years. </p>

<p>I will have self-studied Physics and took the second term of it's college course at a local college (basically electricity, magnetism, all to modern physics), which I am taking so I can get sufficient lab experience to earn me a grade for Physics to add to my transcript (the grade was based off the NY state regents exam, which accounts for a year's curriculum of high school Physics). So I basically will hit two birds with one stone: 1) Taking an interesting course on Physics and 2) Being able to pursue AP Biology.</p>

<p>For the other AP's I am taking, my honors teacher recommended me to be placed in AP Calc BC and my computer science teacher recommended me to take AP Computer Science (The teacher sucks. Fortunately I self study the material thoroughly so I can do well. While everyone else managed to fail the course, I got an A.)</p>

<p>I'm also the first Ethiopian, potentially URM's in general, to have taken AP Biology, as well as AP Calc BC, and Comp Sci. (Not stat though, there have been other URM's who have taken it).</p>

<p>Unfortunately, JHU might not be able to notice my interest and dedication for the AP courses I am taking, since I haven't taken any throughout my high school years. I'm afraid they'd look at my application and just laugh at the URM who thinks he can get in with a majority of normal level courses and A's and B's, rather than perfect scores.</p>

<p>Overall, can a JHU student who hadn't taken AP courses until senior year come forward with a reply?</p>