<p>yeah I have the same question, how do colleges know what and how many AP courses students of my grade at my school usually take? Our school offers 17, but students usually only have (and could have) taken 5, 6 at most when they graduate (I've seen people say if your school offers 20 and you only took 5 it would look bad)...I'm really not sure colleges have a way to know that, and I don't think it's appropriate for one to say "I was the only sophmore in AP X and the only junoir in AP Y and I am known as the legend of my high school and my friend says I'm going to find the cure for cancer" in one's app (that "one" is fictional). and I doubt that counselors will bother to slip such information in, so I really don't know how colleges know this kind of stuff.</p>
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<li>There are studies done on high schools - they determine the number of APs offered at high school- official statistics are present</li>
<li>Guadance councelors rank the rigor from "most rigorous" to "normal" course load. </li>
<li>If they know any one else from your school, they might compare your courseload to theirs</li>
<li>They might actually contact your school and ask, that takes about a minute, and if you are on the border line, that might matter.</li>
<li>They expect you to have more rigirous course load if you are coming from private or famous high schools. If you are coming from some unheard-of, worthless public high school, the expectations are different.</li>
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<p>So there......5 possible ways to rank your course load, and that does not necessarily mean knowing the number of APs offered at your school. They just want to know how many opportunities you had and how many you took advantage of.......that is all.</p>
<p>thanks. d</p>
<p>thats hilarious...sorry
youll be fine</p>
<p>Ahahah, this kid is about to go make a new CC name ROFL</p>
<p>stop lying, i haven't taken ANY honors until senior year and not even one AP my entire high school life, and my school offers tons of em and i got in. no im not an athlete btw.
and by tons i mean tons, we have AP pretty much everything, like calc, studio art, econ, gov, english, comp science, bio, chem, phys.... blah blah
i just never bothered with them</p>