<p>Approximately how many AP exams do I need to get State AP Scholar in NC???</p>
<p>Anyone passing over 11 exams this year in Cali? I wanna be it!!!</p>
<p>I'd have 11 AP exams by end of junior yr..
So I can be it Junior yr...</p>
<p>or should i do 1-2 more to be safe?</p>
<p>what about in connecticut? lol</p>
<p>is there a minimum u have to take for anyone to get it, or is there only one award per state per year? if so, what amount of AP usually wins</p>
<p>one or two awards per state per year. Number varies (much high in Calif, say, than Alabama)</p>
<p>i think in california some years ago the state scholar took 21 ap's or something</p>
<p>i think I may get it for Tennessee... well, i certainly hope so... :P</p>
<p>the number of exams varies significantly between the states. for california and the other big states, you probably need near 20 exams to be state scholar</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you need like 25-26 AP exams, with like mostly 5's and some 4's, if you want to be the State AP Scholar in California.</p>
<p>how about virginia?</p>
<p>geeeez, California is tough. I bet the number is a lot lower in Colorado, where I live. I googled it but couldn't find anything...is there anywhere you can look at how many exams/the average score of the people who got these awards?</p>
<p>I don't understand what the point of AP State Scholar is besides bragging rights. If you look up the winners are College Board's site it shows that almost everyone who wins it was in 12th grade, thus by the time they win the award, they're about to start college. And bragging to people in college about high school achievements is just not that popular a thing to do. I think it's just more of a personal achievement thing as even if you do win (with the stats of the people who win it being more or less unknown) it won't even help you get in college because you would have been accepted 6-10 months earlier.</p>
<p>ohio had two people with 16 i believe</p>
<p>i wonder exactly how they determine whether a certain amount of exams at a certain score average is higher than another...For example, who here gets the award:
student A, with 18 exams at an average of 4.75
or student B, with 15 exams at a perfect average of 5?</p>
<p>How do you calculate the highest one?</p>
<p>Well, I think that is pretty clear from their site <a href="http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,,150-157-0-2057,00.html#name4:%5B/url%5D">http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,,150-157-0-2057,00.html#name4:</a></p>
<p>AP State Scholar
Granted to the one male and one female student in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia with grades of 3 or higher on the greatest number of AP Exams <em>and then</em> the highest average grade (at least 3.5) on all AP Exams taken.</p>
<p>So 16 exams with a 3.5 average would get it over someone with 15 exams and a 5.0 average. As I'd imagine that most people would agree that the person who had the 15-5 would be the greater test-taker, it further supports my above claim that the AP State Scholar is an award that's largely meaningless except for bragging rights.</p>
<p>god that's awfully unfair. a student could take any exam which he thinks he has half a chance of acing and get the award, while a student who was twice as diligent and actually bothered to completely master the material as opposed to scraping together a cursory knowledge of it......would get no recognition.</p>
<p>Well, as for "no recognition," anyone with a grade of 3 or higher on 3 or more exams will get a AP Scholar certificate. 202,683 people got AP recognition for 2004 (that's up from 145,859, although they have made it easier by no longer counting one-semester classes, such as US Gov, as only one-half of an AP test).</p>
<p>there was a lot of discussion of this about a year ago, including info on how many tests were taken by various winners in various states. try to find it in the archives.</p>