So, I’m a junior, and I was wondering if it’s bad if colleges were to see you only taking a small fraction of the APS offered at your school? My school offers 27, yes I know that’s a lot, and after this year I’ll have taken 5, probably around 11 or something when I graduate.
But what I’m saying is would they penalize me for not taking classes that I wasn’t “qualified for” or would not have a reason to take? Here are some examples:
Comp Sci (No interest, want to major in sport management)
Art 2d
Art 3d
Art Studio Drawing (I suck at art lol, no reason to take any of these 3, you also have to take 2 previous art classes)
Calc BC (Already in AB this year…)
Spanish Lang
Spanish Lit (You have to take the classes through Spanish 4 to get to these, and I took hebrew for 2 years…)
Chinese (Same thing)
Physics C M
Physics C E&M (Have to take 1&2 to get to these, and I’ll be taking 1 next year)
Music Theory (Again, no interest and no reason to take it)
@NotVerySmart I totally agree. And with that number 11, I am counting semester classes, this year I am taking 3 semester APs and 1 full year one so I count it as 4. But some kids that I know are taking 5-6 Aps just this year and took 2-3 last year and will have between 15 and 20 when they graduate…and they still have lives somehow.
That will look good. Just remember that you will also compete against students that do not have the AP option. I could only take a max of 8, they are all full year, and I go to an academy so I am limited to 4 a year or less. Because of dual enrollment, I am limited to 4 or less. I only took 2, but I got 2 5’S.
Also, don’t overload yourself. I really enjoyed AP lang and Ap Env, mostly because of the tough–but interesting-- teachers, They made you learn, but still made the classes a blast.
Colleges would see it as, the student took hard AP classes, but also evaluated which ones would be most useful for their potential major. They also don’t instinctively know how many AP classes are offered.
@AverageJoe22 Well I know that they wouldn’t usually know how many are offered. But my school doesn’t rank and for schools like UT Austin (top of my list) I will need to send in the school profile, which is where I got the list of APs from. My school doesn’t offer IB and only a tiny amount of kids do dual enrollment-the ones who go to Ivies and places like Duke MIT Stanford are the ones who pack their schedule with AP classes. What I’m worried about is maybe not taking as many APs as other people, even though the ones I’m taking are challenging yet interesting.