<p>Does it damage your chances of admission if you have not taken a lot of AP classes? My school does not allow students to take more than 2 AP classes a year and due to the size of the school (high school enrollment=200) and the resulting small selection of classes, it can also be difficult to get the schedule to work. So, I have only taken 3 APs (English Lit, Calculus AB and Calculus BC). Is this going to have a significant negative effect on my application? If so is there anything I should/can do to try to compensate?</p>
<p>No. Not to stress. MIT requires you to take advantage of the educational opportunities available to you. If your school has a cap on the number of AP classes, and you took classes to that cap, then you have done exactly that, and MIT will not hold it against you in any way (though it would be useful to ensure that MIT knows that there is a cap, the guidance counselor's report on the school is probably the best place for that).</p>
<p>The same holds true from students worried about the fact that their school offers few if any AP classes. Again, not to worry, under a similar rationale.</p>
<p>Thank you. I didn't actually take classes to the cap (I took 3, not 4 and I have attended for 2 years) but my junior year I was not qualified for most of the APs since I was new to the school. Also, I could have taken AP US History at the expense of taking Physics, but I chose to take Physics over the AP.</p>
<p>What colleges want to see is that you challenge yourself while in High School, and you just dont take the easy way to graduation.</p>
<p>MIT admission officer Ben Jones wrote a definitive blog post about AP courses: </p>
<p>The blog post is adapted from a reply Ben posted in a CC thread.</p>