Which online AP courses should I take this summer to better my chances at admissions?

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@Lindagaf

If you think you will enjoy stats, take stats. Colleges are not going to shake their heads and think “this person ONLY did AP stats, why didn’t they do physics instead.” If you are interested in it, take it.

I am more interested in AP Physics than AP Stats which is why I only signed up for the former, but I definitely want to take the latter too.

But if you can’t take the test, then I see no point in doing it, tbh. Make some enquiries as to how you will be able to take the test. At our high school, studetns can take any AP test they like, even if the school doesn’t offer it, but I don’t think this is true of all schools. Ask your counselor.

Sure, I’ll ask. I think I will be able to take the tests though since even if my high school bars me from doing so, the College Board offers the option of taking AP tests at a different test center.

Don’t let yourself be swept up with dreams of tippy top colleges and all the stress that goes with that. Just a couple of weeks ago there were many kids posting about how they worked all their lives for their dream school, they applied to lots of reaches and only got into their safety, or whatever. Don’t be one of those kids.

OK, I have no illusions of making it into Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, etc. But I think it might be feasible that I can get in 1 or 2 tiers lower, e.g. Columbia or Cornell. Please hold your skepticism-- I have several other things outside of schoolwork that I think may make up for the low grades (I’m not going to get off-topic and list them here). But, of course, I’m not 100% sure that I’ll get in.

Let me put it this way: If you were talking to someone with 93+ averages throughout freshman to junior year, had taken no AP courses, but was being barred from taking >2 APs next year for whatever reason, would you say online courses might help?