What is the importance of AP's in UC Admissions?

Applying to College
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I’m a student from an extremely competitive and well known high school in India. Since AP’s aren’t offered at my school, I was wondering whether the UC will only take into account my unweighted GPA, or will I be severely hurt by lack of AP Exams. Keeping in mind that some students from my school have taken AP exams and courses externally, I am a bit worried about this.

And no, I will not be applying for financial aid.

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BTW UC = University of California. I’m primarily aiming for Berkeley.

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Bump

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If your school doesn’t offer AP classes they shouldn’t hold that against you all that much. Although other students from your school taking them externally is somewhat distressing. But in the end as long as you’ve taken the most challenging workload available you should remain a competitive applicant.

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Thanks for the info mate.