<p>Hii,
Do good scores in APs imply only college credits or do they also make us stand out in the admission process?</p>
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<p>Per Harvard dean of admission in NYTimes, “We have found that the best predictors at Harvard are Advanced Placement tests and International Baccalaureate Exams, closely followed by the College Board subject tests. High school grades are next in predictive power, followed by the SAT and ACT. The writing tests of the SAT and ACT have predictive power similar to the subject tests.” Of course, other colleges may have different views.</p>
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<p>Implied in that statement is that students take the most demanding courses they can at their school. If your school offers limited AP options, then colleges will take that into account.</p>
<p>If your school offers a dozen AP classes, and you only take one, then that will not be in your favor. If your school offers 3 AP classes, and you take all 3, then that will be in your favor.</p>
<p>Yes definitely! My daughter received credit for Freshman english from taking the AP English Lit exam. She also received credit for the first 2 semesters of Spanish from 3 years of honors and senior year AP - though she did not take the AP spanish exam. But did very well on the placement tests at her college.</p>
<p>I think AP classes are a positive factor in admissions. I think taking the most rigorous curriculum at your school and achieving a high GPA is the most important. For the record, my daughter was admitted to a pretty prestigious LAC and she took 3 AP classes during high school. Probably less than a lot of kids applying to competitive schools.</p>
<p>But keep in mind, these small prestigious Liberal arts colleges (and I imagine top universities) have a very holistic admissions process. They like to see strong interest in an outside activity, GPA, Test Scores and writing ability (essay.) I believe what tipped the balance in my daughters favor was her strong writing. (She received a writing scholarship) 
It is never just one factor but yes, AP classes are great.</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor fills out a recommendation form as part of the Common Application. Part of that form asks him or her to evaluate your academic rigor compared to your peers. So if you have straight As, but never took an AP class in a school that offered them, your academic rigor is probably not going to be high. And yes, that will impact your chances of admission to a selective school.</p>
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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I have a friend who goes to Fordham University and he got a 4 on his AP Biology just two years back… Just focusing on this one AP score out of several others, he said that his pre-med advisor had told him that Medical schools don’t like seeing students “exempting themselves and taking the credits.” So my friend decided to take BIO 1 instead of going straight into BIO 2.<br>
Good choice.
He said that his professor is going so deep into topics that he thought he had already mastered and he would have been in a serious hole in BIO 2 (BTW, the college arbitrarily makes you responsible for ALL the material the department has taught in THAT school in Bio 1).
Either way, the AP’s were the only difference between him and I, and that’s why he got him and I didn’t.</p>
<p>Hope this helped! (^.^)/</p>
<p>Sal450 yes it indeed was helpful…thanks:-)</p>
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