<p>I would imagine that taking eight AP exams and getting 4's on each of them would be a difficult task to complete by the summer before Senior year.</p>
<p>Do upcoming seniors have any incentive to winning this award if they count 8 AP's including those they take in 12th grade, or is it only useful to Juniors who are already at their 8th AP?</p>
<p>Here is the page with those AP awards: [URL="<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/scholarawards.html%22%5DCollegeBoard.com%5B/URL">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/scholarawards.html"]CollegeBoard.com[/URL</a>]</p>
<p>There is only marginal benefit to earning AP National Scholar as a senior.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be nice to have if you were to transfer to another college?</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m planning on transferring because I doubt I’ll get into a good college due to not taking the most rigorous curriculum availiable.</p>
<p>awesome, totally answers my question. thanks!</p>
<p>I got mine as a Junior… as a senior it’s worthless.</p>
<p>Getting it as a junior is better than a senior, and as a sophomore even better.</p>
<p>I got it as a junior, back in the day. But there’s certainly nothing <em>wrong</em> with getting it as a senior. It’s one less fancy title to put on your college app, but if you’ve been taking a rigorous courseload and doing well, colleges will see it anyway. I am unconvinced that being a “National AP Scholar” particularly helped me in college applications.</p>
<p>I would advise taking AP classes because you think they’re good, challenging classes, not because you want to win the awards. If you win the awards along the way, all the better. 
Other than AP State Scholar, the awards don’t say anything that couldn’t be deduced from someone’s actual record of scores.</p>