<p>I only have 4 APs before senior year. I will have 5 more senior year, but I'm pretty sure Cal will not give those much value.</p>
<p>I have 7 total weighted before senior year, with 3 UC-approved honors. However, having only 4 APs does not seem very good to me....</p>
<p>I was originally supposed to take AP Physics, but my school cancelled it; so I was forced to take Honors Physics instead, and end up with only 4 total APs before senior.</p>
<p>I am also taking a UC transerable CC course this summer, so I suppose I have 8 total weighted before senior year, with 13 total weighted including senior year.</p>
<p>Will taking only 4 APs before senior year really hurt me or will my high number of weighted save me? And am I wasting my time trying to salvage my prior dearth by taking 5 APs as a senior?</p>
<p>(I have gotten As on everything so far, so GPA is definitely not going to be a problem) </p>
<p>I’ve only taken 4 so far as well, and even my friends who were accepted to Berkeley think that’s pretty good. If you’re even worried about this, you must go to a pretty darn good high school. Seriously, that’s not at all a bad number.</p>
<p>Wow, chill buddy. I only took 4 AP classes before my senior year and didn’t even take any CC classes. I still got accepted into CoE so I’m sure you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Your GPA is more important than what classes you take. 4 APs is plenty. I wouldn’t recommend taking 5 during your senior year. Just take it easy and enjoy your last year of high school. Much of what you do during senior year is not even seen by the schools you apply to.</p>
<p>Frosh Year: Zero
Soph Year: Zero
Jr. Year: Two
Senior Year:Six</p>
<p>just the way it worked out because most AP’s are only offered by my school Senior year. It’s not a downside, it’s the way the school is setup. I didn’t take any CC classes either. Don’t trip.</p>
<p>quit worrying about how many APs. I only took two APs before senior year, four APs during senior year, and I got in. Focus on getting good grades and writing killer essays, not how many APs.</p>
<p>dude, chill. i only took 3 AP’s before senior year. As far as i’m concerned, AP’s mainly serve to boost up ur gpa, so if ur happy with ur gpa don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>It really depends on your high school. My high school counselor (who knows the admissions office at Berkeley well b/c we have a huge number that go here) says that they take into account what high school you go to so if everyone takes a huge number of APs, you should take more to be competitive; if not that many are offered, then taking fewer is fine.</p>
<p>^Yes, you’re right, and that’s why I’m worried. There are around 8-9 people who have taken 4-5 APs junior year and 2-3 of those have taken 2 more sophomore year. So, there are around 2-3 people with 7 APs total before senior year (although I’m pretty sure they’re dropping a few for senior year).</p>
<p>So by comparison to those people, my 4 AP seems measly. </p>
<p>Here are some caveats though: </p>
<p>In terms of total WEIGHTED, I am on par, since I have 3 UC honors and 1 UC transferable CC, giving me 8 total. However again, only 4 of those are AP. Does this level my competativeness?</p>
<p>Plus, Honors Physics at our school, was basically AP without the basic calculus, and we couldn’t take the AP exam. And Honors Precalc at our school is notoriously more difficult than AP Calc. The aforementioned people largely built up their APs with things like AP Psych and AP Calc (hard, but not as hard), and thus actually had easier schedules (the average grade differences prove it). So, is there any way to convey the relative difficulty of some of my honors classes in comparison to some APs?</p>
<p>Just for the record, UC GPA was around a 4.33 sophomore year and 4.83 junior year, and including the CC, I have around a 4.6 UC average, putting me in the top 4% probably, so grades are definitely not the issue here (A’s on everything). (Oh, and please don’t bring up how my UC GPA would be capped for evaluation, I have refuted that in previous posts haha.)</p>
<p>your gpa will be taken into account… if those people with 7or so aps have fairly low gpas, then it’ll be okay. however, they won’t take into account difficulty of your honors classes and such… there are just too many applicants. i don’t think you should worry too much about this, it’s beyond your control. go ahead and do 5 aps senior year if you feel that you should but it really is the only time you really get to slack off and not worry about it.</p>
<p>Yeah, those people definitely got all As or maybe one B; so their GPAs were either the same as mine or higher.</p>
<p>The more I think about it, the more I feel like I’m going to get screwed over. I know I can’t do anything about it at this point, but still, I feel cheated by my school and peers in that I am surpassed only on paper really…I work just as hard if not harder and if I get rejected from Cal, UCLA, or any other reasonably within-reach school on the basis of my worry, it’ll be a hard blow…</p>
<p>Just do your best. That’s all you really can do. Don’t focus on the numbers so much. The admissions office won’t really decide between 2 people by picking the one that has a 4.3 instead of a 4.2. There’s much more to getting in than numbers.</p>
<p>The fact that you are getting As in all of your classes tells me that you are probably a hard worker. I think you should be fairly confident you will get into a good school. And not getting into Cal or UCLA is not the end of the world anyways. Seriously.</p>
<p>you are doing plenty. my school for example only offers APs junior and senior year, and the high achievers take 3-4 each year, and honors everything else.</p>