<p>You take a similar class, take the AP test and do well on it.</p>
<p>Will colleges view it as in you taking an AP course? Or how would they look at it?</p>
<p>My school only offers Bio, English, Calc, and US History. I'm seeing lists on here where people are taking a dozen. I'd rather not start out with the handicap.</p>
<p>Colleges will probably know how many AP courses your school offers and maybe other statistics such as how many people take them, depending upon what your school profile says. They will see both your transcript and your AP test grade, and presumably they will understand what happened in your case.</p>
<p>If you want to take more AP classes outside of school, you could always self-study. There's a great thread on here (you could try searching for it) that gives a list of APs that are relatively easy to self-study for (and then the ones that should be avoided).
Also, colleges understand that not everyone has the opportunity to take 10+ APs, so as long as "most rigorous course load" is checked on your application, they'll understand.
Those are just ways to eliminate the handicap. To answer your question, I'd agree with the above poster that the colleges would deduce that you took the AP based off of knowledge from another class. They also might assume something along the lines of self-studying.</p>
<p>Ok thanks. I'm going to talk to my counselor about it. She's ridiculously busy for some reason though.</p>
<p>My high school profile is misleading. It says that it offers all of these different AP courses, but most of them were unavailable until this year. Because of this, I was only able to take these courses at the honors level, but I still took the AP test at the end of the school year and scored fairly well. No need for a response, I'm just a little bitter.</p>