Is 11 Ap classes enough for schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA?

Applying to College
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Hello Guys,
I am a senior this year and I am about to finish my application for most of the colleges i am applying for. My school offers about 20 APs. I have taken 11 AP courses throughout high school-(AP Statistics, AP Physics 1, AP Chinese in 10th grade)-(AP Calculus AB, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science in 11th Grade)-(AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP Government, AP Economics, AP Environmental Science in 12th Grade) I know that colleges put a tons of other things into consideration, but in the aspects of courses, are these 11 AP classes enough for schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA?

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Yes.

3

Yes, but APs alone do not necessarily mean admission.

However, your 11 APs are really 9 APs, since some are effectively subsets or mostly subsets of others.

Also, the subject credit you will get in college may be less than you think.

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The opinion that matters most is not ours but that of your guidance counselor. You want to talk to your guidance counselor to see if your schedule merits him/her checking off that you took the most rigorous course-load available at your HS in your college recommendation.

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Re: #3

UCs do not use counselor’s recommendations. However, the counselor’s opinion will matter for those colleges that do use counselor’s recommendations.

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If striving for the very selective schools, you know it’s not an arms race to see who can have the most APs, right?

Former Yale admissions dean Jeff Brenzel:

“With respect to programs of study, we are less concerned with particular course designations and more concerned simply to see that candidates have embraced and performed well in whatever their schools offer as a most challenging program. At the same time, we are not particularly drawn to one-dimensional students who have made their sole or primary objective in life amassing the largest number of honors or AP courses conceivable, accompanied by multiple efforts to achieve the world’s highest test scores.”

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It is not the number of AP classes that matter; it is whether your guidance counselor states that you took the most rigorous course load available at your school. Getting into a selective school is not based on a race to see who has the most APs.

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No, you need more.

Joking. Please don’t worry, 11 is more than enough. You run the risk of appearing to be an academic drone. Stop.