number of APs needed to have a fair shot for top 30-80ish schools

<p>His brother got into Harvard and Carnegie Mellon having taken:
1 Freshman year (Comp Sci)
1 Sophomore year (Bio)
3 Junior Year (Physics C and Calc BC, US History)
3 Senior Year (Latin, Econ-Macro, Chem, and not AP but he did take Linear Equations) </p>

<p>Oops - forgot one for older son – he took US History junior year too. (re #41)</p>