<p>Quick question for you all: I attend a small charter school that doesn't offer any AP classes. Will I be hurt by this come college admissions time? Will they take into account that they weren't available to me, or will they expect me to have self-studied some? All our classes are honors and they're pretty challenging, but I don't know if colleges will view them the same way as AP/IB classes.</p>
<p>No, not if your school doesn’t offer them. Make sure you take some of those honors courses, if they are the most difficult classes your school offers. A few honors is essentially equivalent to a few AP’s in terms of the difficulty of your course load. It’s all by what you are offered.</p>
<p>Schools want you to take the most rigorous courseload available to you, and they won’t penalize you if your school doesn’t offer APs.</p>
<p>^Though a good workaround is to take classes at a local college, even at a local CC. But if your school doesn’t offer them and you don’t have any APs, that won’t work against you.</p>
<p>College’s just expect you to take advantage of the most rigorous work available to you. Not work you don’t have there :)</p>
<p>You COULD get some brownie points by self-studying for an AP or two and take a Community College course or two (like ab2013 mentioned). That’ll look pretty impressive</p>
<p>Thanks for the help everyone.</p>
<p>I’m taking all the hardest classes available to me (ancient Greek… yay!), so it sounds like I shouldn’t have any problem there.</p>
<p>However, I may look into self-studying some APs if it would add to my app. Are there any that are particularly suited to self-studying? My school is much stronger in the humanities than math/science, and I want to major in engineering, so maybe I should look into Calc or Physics or something like that.</p>
<p>Are any AP’s offered at an honors level you can take? That way you’d have a background for the subject. AP Eng Lang is probably the easiest esp w/o the class…Pysch may be something to consider too.</p>
<p>Some schools might not let you self-study APs so don’t be let down. Take classes at a community college or nearby university. You can do them over the summer or try supplementing them with your regular courseload during the school year.</p>