<p>My school is a very small, public, underfunded school. My class/grade has around 50-60 people. It only has 1 AP course which I am taking next year (USH). I'm also taking AP Bio through a distance learning program, as well as possibly self-studying AP Psyc.
Will colleges understand that my school can't offer a lot of AP courses? I see some people on CC with like 5-6 AP classes in ONE YEAR...
Will they penalize me? Are AP scores considered in the admissions process?
A big thanks to anyone who helps in advance! :)</p>
<p>No, you are not penalized if that is all your school offers.</p>
<p>Truth:
Colleges don’t look at AP Scores as significantly as one’s GPA / Course Intensity / Extracurricular activities…It does however look good if you are a bubble student trying to get into a school with average everything else, as bad grades in AP classes can hurt that GPA.</p>
<p>As long as you challenge yourself with the courses that you do take, then you should be fine.</p>
<p>Be lucky, I’m sure your school goes on a 100-90 is an A grading scale. When I went to high school our A grading scale was a 100-94 is an A. I could have easilly gotten a 4.0 if it were the case…but not I got a 93 in a few classes…</p>
<p>Yeah you’re fine. </p>
<p>Especially if you are going out of your way to take AP’s through distance learning.</p>
<p>Because of your “limited opportunities” you have a real good opportunity to do great things. Because what you do will be 10x more impressive than what i can do in my large public > 1k kids.</p>
<p>Typically a guidance counselor sends out a form, along with your recommendation letter, information regarding your school (how many APs offered, etc.) so you should be fine.
Still, it’d be a great idea if you could self-study for a subject or two.</p>