My school doesn't offer a lot of AP classes?

Applying to College
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<p>I go to a small, private, international school, and since we kind of have a lack of teachers, these are the only AP's we have:
AP Biology
AP Economics
AP Chemistry
AP Physics
AP World History
AP US History
AP Art</p>

<p>We only have 7 AP courses, and I already took like 4 of them. The others, I'm not really interested in, so I didn't take them. I feel like I'm lacking AP courses in my schedule, but these are all my school has! I was planning on taking AP courses online, but my parents already pay A LOT for my school tuition, and I don't think my parents can afford $500 for each AP course. What I did to make up for my scarce AP's, is that I filled my whole schedule in with regular classes that I like. I don't have any learning labs/free periods when i'm a senior, and I currently have 285 credits when I only need 240 to graduate. Do you think colleges will grade me off for my lack of AP classes? :(</p>

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<p>No, they take into account what’s offered and what you took, not some absolute scale. If it’s not available, they won’t hold it against you.</p>

<p>Which four did you take? The only possible downside here is if you completely ignored a core area when multiple courses were available, e.g. science. Colleges like to see you challenging yourself in all the core areas, not just the ones you like. They like intellectual curiosity. </p>

<p>You can avoid the ones you don’t like when you get to college. Makes no sense, but that’s the way it works.</p>