<p>Yeah, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, and near impossible to manage in 4 years of high school, but AP released 2012 score data and one kid actually took 30 exams.</p>
<p>I am curious to find out how he/she performed and what college the ended up at...</p>
<p>How about the top half, where they indicate that 20% of students had taken 3-18 exams in a single year. 18 in a single year, or 30 over 3 or 4 years doesn’t seem really worthwhile. You have to wonder how much the student really learned, aside from the ability to take tests.</p>
<p>There was bound to be another type of battle in the attempt to distinguish oneself. First the battle was GPA, then board scores, then EC’s, now it’s AP’s. Dartmouth has it right. Enough already. No credit for AP’s.</p>
<p>That is not fetch.</p>
<p>But the average number of AP tests taken per student in 2012 was something like 1.8. The students who take dozens are outliers.</p>
<p>Yup, extreme outliers, at that. </p>
<p>I still marvel at their audacity (read: insanity) to sit for that many exams, assuming they’ve prepped sufficiently.</p>
<p>A c/o 2012 guy from my school took like 12 or so, getting all 5’s except for a 4 in Spanish. He ended up at Stanford, which I assume gives little if any AP credit at all. But hey, it got him in!</p>
<p>One can enter Stanford with max 43 credit hours in AP credit (takes 181 to graduate). There was someone two years ago who won the state max number AP award at 23 or 25 and went to Penn.</p>
<p>Eh, it’s doable…30 AP’s comes out to 7 or 8 exams per year. How he did on those exams is a different story.</p>
<p>The number is inflated AFAIK. Subscores and retakes are counted. Also the number of exam records on the report maxs out at 30 so any additional scores from earlier years are cut off.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of this person – friend of a friend. It’s no joke, not that I understand the motivation to do this.</p>
<p>Any idea what school did this person went to? The guy that I knew from my graduating class took 28 exams.</p>