<p>How much weight do top colleges put on the number of APs you've taken in high school? </p>
<p>I go to a top-ranked high school that offers 20+ AP classes, so I'm worried colleges will think I did not "take advantage of my environment/resources" if I graduate having taken 8 AP classes.</p>
<p>Well for most AP's you have to meet some basic prerequisites. My school offers about 20 AP's as well but the most any student has ever taken is 10 for scheduling reasons, mandatory freshman courses, etc. So long as your counselor checks the "most rigorous" box you should be good to go.</p>
<p>8 APs is plenty. You'll be fine.</p>
<p>My school offers 1, and last year we sent 2 kids to UPenn. A few years before that we had a girl accepted to Harvard. Don't sweat it; if you used your time wisely elsewhere, such as a job or in an extracurricular, then 8 is definitely fine :P</p>
<p>Don't stress; as long as you do well in those eight AP classes, there should be nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>It all matters on what you r HS offers. If your HS offers 78 AP classes, and you manage to manage your schedule to where you'd have taken 7 is much more impressive than if your HS offers 25 AP's and you take 8 of them. it all depends on how much you take advantage of college-level classes.</p>
<p>My school offers 14 or so APs and we were 3/3 at Stanford SCEA and 1/1 at Caltech EA (all of the students accepted had taken 8 or less APs throughout their high school careers)</p>
<p>Yeah, I will have taken either 8 or 9 APs by graduation. And that's a LOT for my school, so don't sweat it.</p>
<p>Context context context. I'll only have 10 APs done by the end of HS, but that's basically the most I could have possibly taken with grad requirements and such.</p>
<p>It's fine. The sheer # of AP's are trivial at best.</p>