<p>Yup, although AP Government was totally worthless, I should have taken a college political science course...</p>
<p>I took one sophmore year (bio) and plan on taking nine over the course of junior senior year. A few people at my school, however, took three sophmore year, and plan on taking six (in some cases seven!) each year, over the next two years, giving them pretty rediculously high numbers for their high school career. </p>
<p>So my question is, do top colleges differentiate between say 10 AP's and something like 15, to a great extent? The point is moot for me- taking that many AP's while trying to maintain ec participation would kill my GPA.</p>
<p>But i was wondering how the two transcripts would look in comparison.</p>
<p>Don't get disheartened anyway. Theres not much difference and 10 APs would put you above the total number offered at our school. </p>
<p>Relax, some schools don't offer APs at all...</p>
<p>Yeah my school is weird like that. Every class is assumed to be "honors" or "pre college," and if we want to take APs or IBs we have to work them into the free slots in the schedule. Which means that you cant take any APs or IBs in your Soph year, and that you can really only take 3 or at the VERY most 4 in your junior and senior years. You think this would hurt my admission chances at top unis?</p>
<p>I've signed up for 2 APs soph year (with crazy magic, our school doesn't allow us to do that). Well, actually we're on block system and AP Chemistry is worth two semesters so I don't know, should I count that as three or two. Anyways, I'm PLANNING to take 8 semesters of AP in Junior and what's left from my school in my Senior year.</p>
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<p>This is the exact opposite at my school. In my school, no one so this year has gotten anything higher than a B+ in APUSH, even then the average grade is a C. In AP Physics, basically everyone that tries a little gets an A or A-, although they get 1's and 2's on the exam.</p>
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Yeah my school is weird like that. Every class is assumed to be "honors" or "pre college," and if we want to take APs or IBs we have to work them into the free slots in the schedule. Which means that you cant take any APs or IBs in your Soph year, and that you can really only take 3 or at the VERY most 4 in your junior and senior years. You think this would hurt my admission chances at top unis?
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<p>Context context context. Universities want to see that you've taken advantage of what's available to you. They realize it wouldn't be fair to judge you for taking 3 or 4 if 3 or 4 was around the max.</p>
<p>Thats the wierd thing, I go to one of the most competitive magnet schools, perhaps in the country. The thing is that we just aren't very big on APs and IBs, I suppose since the regular courseload and requirements are so heavy. Trust me, some of the students in my school are of the caliber probably needed to take 8 APs a year, but we keep them occupied in the "normal" classes I guess.
I suppose most universities will understand this.</p>
<p>I go to an IB magnet school and we're not very into AP but we're definitely focused on IB tests.</p>
<p>This was pretty much my schedule:</p>
<p>Freshman:
AP Statistics
AP World History</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP European History
AP Physics B
AP Psychology</p>
<p>Expected:
Junior:
AP Macroeconomics (only 1 semester)
AP Computer Science A
AP Physics C
AP English Literature
AP Calculus BC
AP Biology
AP Latin Literature</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Microeconomics
AP Chemistry, IB Chemistry HL
IB Math HL
IB History of the Americas HL
IB Latin SL
IB English HL
IB Philosophy SL</p>
<p>I never did AP English Language and I don't plan to do AP Art, AP French, or AP US History. Our school also offers AP Spanish but I never took Spanish.</p>