<p>I agree with jkeil. Coming from a top high school in Mass. I would expect your counselor to recommend more AP classes for any student looking at top 20 universities as adcoms want to see you take the most advanced classes available to you in high school. My D entered with 7 AP’s and 6 duel credit classes and felt behind most of her classmates.</p>
<p>alexmass, I advise you not to get sidetracked by the possibility that you had some different advice re: AP courses. That’s water under the bridge now. Focus on what you can change and show the courage to change it: taking a couple more APs each of next year’s semesters and improving the SAT and GPA.</p>
<p>@jkeil911- AP courses are year long courses that culminate to a final exam given in May. You can not take them per semester in the US.</p>
<p>Hi Momthreeboys–I think you are mistaken. We are in the US (public HS in Il) and we have several AP classes offered (mostly in the social studies arena) that are only a semester: AP Macro Economics, AP Micro Economics, AP US Gov, AP Comparitive Gov to name a few. You take the final in exam in May regardless of whether you took the class 1st or 2nd semester.</p>
<p>Alex, yes AP classes are difficult and most of your classmates will not take them but they want to attend your flagship and you want to attend VU. AS Jkeil says “This ain’t Mass anymore, Dorothy…the world needs what you have”. Your test scores show you have the ability to handle AP classes and if your counselor knows you want to attend VU he is doing you a disservice by not guiding you to take more AP’s. VU admissions, like all other very selective universities, place a great deal of weight on high rigor, class rank, and GPA. You need AP’s for all of the above. Remember VU wants the best and brightest, not the majority of students in your high school. You still have time to ramp it up. Good luck.</p>
<p>Our public HS’s only offers only full year classes in those same subjects that you mentioned and I thought the curriculum was standardized by the College Board but I guess I was wrong. Sorry jkeil911!</p>
<p>It’s not a problem. you’re raising three boys. you’ve been a little busy, no. I didn’t know there were such differences in the AP curriculum, either.</p>