# of expected APs

<p>Ok so i know colleges expect us to take the rigorous courses possible. I was reading a book on admissions, and the author said a student did not take the most rigorous course at her school even though she had 9 APs. </p>

<p>Now my school offers about 25 of them, but of course it's not possible to even take that many considering schedule restraints and prerequistes. I will have only taken 8 out of the 25 by the end of senior year, so do colleges expect someone like me to have taken more? Like 15? Because that would be impossible to even scehdule.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that some AP classes are easier than others. Colleges would prefer to see you taking Calc BC rather than Calc AB or Stats, and Physics C, Chemistry, or Bio instead of, say, Environmental Science or Human Geography.</p>

<p>Other than that, I can't help you without any more specific information from the section of the book you're talking about.</p>

<p>The counselor will put on your rec whether you took the most difficult course load possible (most counselor rec forms ask this specifically). Colleges know that you can't take 25 APs, even if your school offers them. If you took pretty much the maximum number that you could have given scheduling, you should be fine.</p>

<p>My school offered about 15 or 18, but I only took 8 of the good ones, because most of them were things like Psych and Studio Art and not really rigorous things like that. I don't think it's a big deal as long as you take the main sciences and maths that your school offers.</p>

<p>My High school offers 9; I took 7 at the school and macro/micro as self-study. Not sure if that comes out to 8 or 9, but yeah.</p>