<p>I heard that if you take 8 AP's (and get 4+ on all of them) you can get the highest honor (as far as AP honoring goes) of National AP scholar. Its lookin that I will be elgible to recieve this by the end of my junior year. Is this good for admissions, or do colleges not even care? I heard that the precentage of peopel who recieve this is extremely low, and I also heard that this honor is also completely worthless. WHat are your takes guys? Any one know the truth?</p>
<p>CB awards are designed to sell more ap tests to unsuspecting students.</p>
<p>Colleges do not care about the 'award'....obviously, any adcom will see your transcript and can count ap classes....whether you have 8 or 7 makes no difference, unless you go to a HS where the 'average' applicant takes 10. Remember, the average matriculant at Stanford has 5.</p>
<p>Take the classes/tests if you are GENUINELY interested in the material, but not for the award.</p>
<p>The AP awards are geared towards how many you took as opposed to the scores. It's an award. That is a good thing, but it probably isn't going to make a tremendous difference.</p>
<p>I pulled a 2 on macro economics and a 3 on micro economics and still managed to get into William and Mary OOS. They [colleges] obviously don't care too much.</p>