<p>So I was thinking, I see all of these kids on here who have a million AP classes. In my school there is a bunch of those. I, however, take a few honor each year, and now Senior year I have 3 APs and 1 honors. Not much compared to everyone here. But my GC, everytime I go to see her and shes with another person, she brags about how smart i am and how tough of a courseload I have. Is she the one who decide how hard my schedule is? Or does the college interpret it. I know high schools tell how many APs are available, and mine has a good amount. But is it my GC who determines this?</p>
<p>Chuck Norris decides</p>
<p>Your counselor will check off a box regarding the difficulty of your schedule.</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor reports the rigor of your courseload based on classes you have taken in comparison to what is available for you to take.</p>
<p>The guy who took more AP classes than you.</p>
<p>Here are two factors you have to consider:</p>
<p>1) Schedule limitations. Each school is a different beast in terms of how many classes you can take, what they require to graduate, and how many sections of each course are offered. I know at my school (which runs on a college-style scheduling system), you have 6 hours in a day with most APs taking 1 hour each day a week. There are also requirements for what classes you must take (You must be in a L.A., Social Studies, and a Math each year, 6 Credits art and Buisness by graduation, 12 Credits PE by graduation). APs can’t be taken before Junior year and each year has a max of how many APs you can take (3 for Juniors, 5 for seniors). That is assuming you can fit them all in as most APs at my school save popular classes such as AP US government are only offered once or twice a day. Therefore, it’s near impossible for any student at my school to have more than 7 APs taken overall. Each school runs differently, though, so colleges can’t compare students because student A could take 7 APs each year while student B is only allowed to take 1 his senior year.</p>
<p>B) People Self-study APs. It’s not as reccomended as taking a class, but it allows students to take an even more rigorous courseload.</p>
<p>C) THIS IS COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL! This site attracts people who want to get a sure fire chance of getting into an Ivy leage and, therefore, you are only hearing from the extreme. Just because someone has taken every AP known to man on this site doesn’t mean it’s abnormal if you are taking 3 APs and an honors course. That’s not to say that you should take what oportunites you are given to to take the most rigorous courseload possible, but don’t let the average CC member be your point of comparason. Besides, academics is like a bad metaphor; Some things are better left uncompared.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t take an honors/AP course just because it looks good on a college app even though it is a good consideration; you should have a genuine interest in the topic and want to get in more depth to challange yourself. If you feel like you want to take more rigorous classes that you find of interest, then by all means go for it. However, don’t let the number of APs that other people are taking determine what your definition of rigor is.</p>
<p>Colleges do.</p>
<p>Top colleges expect about the 90% hardest possible courseload you could take.</p>
<p>But often they don’t differentiate between AP’s. So a dude taking AP Psychology, Statistics, Environmental Science, and Human Geography may get the same recognition as someone taking AP Calculus BC, Physics C, Chemistry, and English Literature.</p>
<p>This is how
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I subscribe to the theory of the farther it goes the better it is.
But really the college people do.</p>