<p>I am currently a sophomore, and I am going to end up with about 13 APs. Is that good enough for HYPS. I was thinking of self-studying environmental, psych, stat, and human geography to get it up to 17, but would that be putting too much of a burden on myself. Also, given my age, have I kind of bypassed the right time to self-study (aka freshman and sophomore year) because I just found out about this website like a month ago haha</p>
<p>You might want to check university web sites to see what AP credit is actually useful at each university in the major(s) you are interested in.</p>
<p>For example, here is [Stanford’s</a> AP credit chart](<a href=“http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/students/ap-charts]Stanford’s”>http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/students/ap-charts) and [Harvard’s</a> AP credit chart](<a href=“Engineering & Applied Sciences – Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising/advanced/equivs.html).</p>
<p>Self studying AP tests is certainly not a prerequisite for admission, nor [probably] will it get you into college, certainly not at the Ivies. Focus on other things.</p>
<p>That said, why can you not self study this year?</p>
<p>im thinking it might be a little too late</p>
<p>Yeah, focus on beefing up your ECs instead.</p>
<p>That being said, I’m self-studying 6 AP exams in my junior year and self-studied one in my sophomore year (and will probably end up with 13 AP exams, same as you). Don’t bother self-studying for the easy ones (like the ones you listed) if you’re not really interested and/or the schools you want to go to don’t give you credit for them.</p>