<p>Please ignore the utter asshat-ness of this question, but I'm desperate due to a lack of siblings and little real information apart from the somewhat abysmal AP stats (ergo, off to the interwebs!). I want more than anything to apply to the University College of London, and as an American, and that means near 5's (4 5s and one 4) across the board for 5 subjects to even apply to most subject areas. I am a rising sophomore, and as APs must be taken in the last 2 years of high school to be eligible, I won't be taking any this upcoming year. However, for my junior and senior year, I intend to take AP Lit, AP Comp, APUSH, AP Bio, AP European History, AP Human Geo and AP Psychology, for a total of 7 AP credits. Not to be a classic CC humble-bragger, but I suppose some academic background is necessary (despite me only having one year of highschool complete so far). I finished the year with a 4.0 unweighted GPA (I took all honors that were offered), a 98.somethingorother average--3rd in my class of around 200. If I have decent teachers, maybe get an AP tutor, as well as practice test and study my face off, is a 5,5,5,5,4 out of 7 a doable feat for someone who is no utter genius? </p>
<p>I’m also not sure if this is even the right forum, so please do not attack me if there is a more relevant one! I can move it if someone would like to make a suggestion for me!</p>
<p>You’re more likely to get replies in the High School Life forums. People don’t really come around here much except around AP season mostly.</p>
<p>Thank you! That’s a good point! </p>
<p>It depends on how hard you work, how many other activities you do, and how intelligent you are. I’m going to assume you at least meet the intelligence and hard working aspects. Without multiple time consuming activities (on the level of five times a week for 4-5 hours a day) then it should be easily possible to get straight fours and fives across the board. None of your APs are super difficult. I would just look out for Lit and Bio. Both of those courses give out very few fives (5-7% of test takers).
4-5 APs is seen as a well-balanced course-load for anybody who is reasonably smart. Then you get to rigorous course-loads of 7-9 APs where only superior intelligent people can succeed while still participating in other activities/sports (but it should be noted that anybody given the necessary amount of time could do this as well, but they would be spending large amounts of time outside of school studying).</p>
<p>Not impossible, but unlikely. I know u didn’t though. Screw you AP Calc.</p>
<p>A few people I know have done it, but it is difficult</p>
<p>If your goal is to get mostly 5’s on 5 AP tests, the way to go is to take only 5 AP classes so you don’t have to spend as much effort on the other classes.
Taking 7 and saying “best 5 out of 7” won’t be the best option.</p>
<p>But that is assuming that you want to maximize your AP test scores and not take the most APs you can.</p>
<p>Also you don’t show any other science or math APs…I assume you are going for an English/History/liberal arts of degree?</p>
<p>it will be hard, but honestly, study like hell. and i don’t mean in april and early may. i mean throughout the whole year, study alot, make sure you know the material. it will probably help you commit the material to memory and will make you feel more prepared for the exam.</p>
<p>for example, when i took physics b as a junior last year, i didn’t really study in may at all. hell, maybe not even april. however, throughout the year, i committed the information, formulas, and theorems to memory and they just stuck. i ended getting a 5 on the exam. i have more exampels, but i’ll spare the details.</p>
<p>other than studying through the whole year, i would say TAKE AS MANY PRACTICE TESTS AS YOU CAN FIND. before i took calculus bc last year, i had taken maybe 6 practice tests for it. they really help you know what you need to work on and you actually can learn quite a bit from some of the questions. not to mention some questions are extremely similar year to year (especially in the social sciences, from my experience)</p>
<p>@Chalmydia Any tips on how to commit all to memory during the year?
I tried that this year with APUSH and I think I only got a 3</p>
<p>AP Tests are ridiculously easy. Most of them have a super good curve where something like a 70 percent is a 5.</p>
<p>The reason for this requirement is that English Universities start in what is effectively sophomore year, and then run 3 years. Scottish Universities like Edinburgh and St Andrews are 4 years.</p>
<p>Additionally, if you include Senior year APs, you will receive a conditional admission pending the results of the AP test. So in practice, you would need to deposit somewhere else, and then once you get your scores and your conditions removed, it’s just like getting off the waitlist. </p>
<p>Finally, my D1 got 5s on 10 AP exams, but 2 were sophomore year. If your AP classes are taught to a 5 like hers were, there is no reason why a student such as yourself can’t get the scores that you need to get into UCL. </p>
<p>Each AP score of 4 or 5 will likely grant you more than 1 credit. So your plan for 7 AP exam should give you more than 7 AP credit. Check with college wrbsite. My D took a total of 6 AP only. The scores from her senior are not officially released to students yet but to colleges. From the numbet of AP credits she got (29) at UMich registrar office this week, she should have received at least 5 of 5 and 1 of 4.</p>
<p>It will be difficult, but not impossible to get straight 5s. The challenge is not in the exams, but in the exam weeks. You have to know everything before exam weeks, as there is not enough time to study thoroughly between exams (easier said than done), and just taking that many four-hour exams so close to each other will drain you willpower and make the exams that much harder. Additionally, you should try to switch into some APs this year if you can, as there is a huge difference between the amount of AP and honors level coursework. </p>
<p>for AP Euro, I crammed for 1 month straight, and even then it wasn’t enough. But I got a 5 since I had studied hard for each exam within the class, so I had a strong “memory base” set to memorize all the important details for specific. eras.</p>
<p>I honestly do not think it’s impossible! I took 2 exams sophomore year and got fives on both of them (English Language and US History). This year, I took 6 and I also got fives on all of them. I think the main thing is that you have to plan time in advance to study. For example, I started reviewing in February for the AP Chem test. After that, I made a schedule for when I was going to study for the various exams and I stuck to that schedule pretty strictly. </p>
<p>Good teachers help as well. I did not really study for Macro, Government, English Lit or Lang because my teachers were amazing.</p>
<p><em>Warning: bragging ahead</em>
I got a 5 on Macroeconomics, European History, Psychology, Microeconomics, and World History. All as a freshman. I’m sure I’ll only improve on this performance, especially since I will be self-studying MUCH less next year and the year after.
If you don’t take APs in subjects you are absolutely terrible in (i.e. art for me), straight 5s can be attainable.</p>