<p>I know college admissions isn't all about AP number when it comes to courseload rigor, but I have a dilemma.</p>
<p>A lot of the top students at my school took 3 or 4 APs s sophomore year, and 6 or 7 junior year. I'm taking two classes that coinicide with my ECs, an Air Force ROTC class and Debate. Therefore, I could only take 1 AP sophomore year and 3 junior year, with 5 senior year. How could I explain this? It may look like I'm being lazy, and even though I'm taking as many AP classes as I possibly can (possibly, meaning earning all necessary scholar's curriculum credits), but I don't want my scheudle to be rated 'weak'.</p>
<p>wow that's crazy.. 6 or 7 APs in one year? girls at my school are considered crazy for taking 3 junior year... only 1 is offered sophmore year, and 2-3 is the max for senior year. colleges don't seem to mind, plenty of girls from my school get into top 20 colleges with 2-3 or so APs but i guess it depends on the rigor of the APs and HS.</p>
<p>Yea, same here, I looked crazy for taking five AP's (one of four kids), and I only took one last year. So I don't see how you would be less competitive overall, unless many of your classmates are competing against you for the same schools and then i might be worried, but taking 9 AP's is a)still very impressive, especially since you are maintaining all the other EC's and b) since it's um yeah nine and most schools don't really care once you have above three or four asssuming circumstances. And I hope that you did well on all of them though, or else that would be troublesome. So good luck this year. :)</p>
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<p>The courses are definately plenty challenging and the grading scale is basic (90 and above is A, 80 and above is B, and so on), so I don't think it's inflation, some kids are just smart enough. However, in a class of 526, of the few that take that many APs, even fewer make close to all As (like, 4 or 5).</p>
<p>Well, I'm glad my AP number is okay, but my counselor still has to rate my courseload rigor.</p>
<p>wow... i've been crying about taking 3aps for this upcoming jr year. 6-7? Holy crap. </p>
<p>Don't worry murasaki. im taking 3 this jr yr, predicting about 4 snr yr (so about 7 or so) i can give some word of advice or encouragement thru MSN..</p>
<p>if one self-studies, so that means = not taking the actual AP class? so just self study in order to do the exam? what about weighted grades then?</p>
<p>It depends on your high school if they'll even credit your independent study. Like at my school, it's possible to do that only if you're willing to still stay in school and have a "responsible teacher" keep track of you (not your work) throughout. So basically, if you're doing AP Psych, your teacher doesn't have to be a psych teacher. She's just there to make sure you're not truant or doing anything foolish. Other than that, you dont' get it in your transcript.</p>
<p>A high school in Little Rock with 500 people in a class where a ton of people take 8 APs every year? I think we might go to the same school.</p>
<p>I was one of those people who took a lot of APs; I took 3 as a sophomore, 6 as a junior, and 7 as a senior. Even though I got a ton of B's and slacked off sometimes, it was still hell, to say the least. I was so stressed out all the time, and it simply isn't worth it. </p>
<p>Five is fine, don't worry. I wouldn't care about what other people think of your schedule, and I was sorry I was stupid enough to do what everyone else was doing.</p>
<p>Only the top students (maybe 15/~650) take a total of 10 APs in their H.S. career from my high school. The most I have heard of was 5 APs senior year. Waaaaaay more than fifteen get into Ivy Leagues from my school. However, half of the students in AP classes get 5's, so the classes are no joke. </p>
<p>I say - don't stress it. And certainly don't take 6/7 APs in one year...</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd say as long as your AP grades are good, no worries. Just like colleges liking extreme involvement in a few select EC's, I'd say they'd rather you take fewer AP's and do very well on all of them.</p>
<p>This is all very relieving, I feel like I've had a very balanced career now--I may be fortunate that my EC classes prevented me from conforming!</p>
<p>How do you think the counselor would rate my schedule, though? In school context or in terms of what I could do? Technically I could have had an even tougher load, but had two classes that I needed to take to stay involved in what I liked.</p>
<p>It does do rank, and I do hurt, coming it at 49/526. However, it's not all due to APs. If I had made straight As I think I could at least be in the top 5%.</p>