<p>My high school only has 2 honors classes a year and no APs. I love it, but I wonder if Stanford will understand that I am taking the most challenging courses at my high school. </p>
<p>Will Stanford ignore me because of my schedule?</p>
<p>No they will be understanding of your situation. All the admission officers are concerned if you are making the most of your high school experience.</p>
<p>Your school sends an academic profile of your high school.so yes…they understand. You better be #1 in your whole class for Stanford.</p>
<p>In all honesty, Stanford may just skip your school and go to the other rigorous school. Folks that come from schools with no APs are expected to self study and provide AP scores. Granted, there are exceptions, you need to stand out as a spectacular candidate (maybe national level award or something unique).</p>
<p>But otherwise they will just skip over you. Has your school send anybody to Stanford from last few years?</p>
<p>If your SATs aren’t over 2200 and you don’t have awesome ECs you’ll have a tough time standing out. I know, I was in the same situation as you this year. </p>
<p>I say, if you are really putting in effort, self study and take the AP tests somewhere else if you can.</p>
<p>Usually I wouldn’t post on a thread like this, but OP, please don’t listen to a poster like tryingforcollege. They are an ignorant poster that doesn’t know what they are talking about.</p>
<p>Your school has it’s own school profile, which will list how many AP or Honors courses they offer. When your counselor sends his or her rec to your colleges, they will list if you have taketn the most rigourous, rigourous, etc. courses according to their course load. If your school only offers 2 AP courses and you have taken them both, you would be marked as most rigourous. A school such as Stanford will take into account the school you came from. Good luck.</p>
<p>My school is really poopy. While I was waitlisted at Harvard, Princeton and rejected from Yale, I still got into Stanford. I feel like they really have understood my setting in a way Harvard didn’t (I got a ll from all the lib arts schools I applied to, for Christ’s sake.) get your sats up high and be the val (this may have negatively affected me as I’m 2nd -_-) and you should be just as well off as others. Remember though, nothing is certain in admissions. </p>
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<p>I plan on self studying a total of 11 APs by the time I graduate high school.</p>
<p>Rather than grinding through 11 APs as self-study, why not home school instead? Sounds like that’s what you’d be doing anyway.</p>
<p>More to the point, it’s not about how many APs you can take, but rather how you present yourself as an applicant overall. You’d be better off pursuing your intellectual passions, whatever they are, in a more focused way. Be the kid who loves Japanese history, self-studied the language, worked two jobs to save money for a trip to Japan, and cultivates bonsai. Or the kid who loves engineering, rebuilds old cars in his spare time, has a web-site devoted to this topic, and knows everything about mustangs that there is to know. You get the idea…</p>
<p>There are literally thousands of students applying to the top schools who have taken 8+ APs and they are not especially memorable. Be yourself fully - you are probably a lot more interesting than the sum on your AP exams.</p>
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<p>Actually I was attending this college counseling talks, and the general consensus is schools matter for HYPMS. That is why they are called public-feeder schools or private schools. Unless you got a shout-out from the president or won community awards or recruited athlete or in some way you are an exceptional candidate, they WILL choose someone from another school district 2 miles away (that has the 10+ AP students who have the academics + stand out factor).</p>
<p>So my advice to OP is - try taking summer college classes or self study AP, take SAT 2 subject tests AND stand out in some other way to make yourself a competitive applicant for Stanford.</p>
<p>Ok…just looked over Ms Mom’s post…yes, you can do all that as well 
Just make yourself stand out in some way. Sure 10+ AP is not the only way to stand out…but if your other stuff is marginal, the rigor of your transcript will be a factor. And if you are intending to take the AP tests, take 3-4 at least by junior year.
Unlike State flagships, private schools are not obligated to take a student from every school in their state. So yes, Stanford may look over you (UNLESS you have a solid other hook or another wow factor)…and take the guy from 2 miles away.</p>
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This is exactly the reason why folks unnecessarily get their hopes up.
@loltoasty - Did you tell them you WON the Gates Millenium scholarship (which is given to outstanding URM students with financial need)
<a href=“***Official Stanford University 2016 RD Results*** - Stanford University - College Confidential Forums”>***Official Stanford University 2016 RD Results*** - Stanford University - College Confidential Forums;
<p>(And wait…did you take IB courses, loltoasty?) According to your accepted post. (There you go!)</p>
<p>So I stand by my last post, you need to have a “hook”, else your lack of rigor will count against you. Unless, like this poster, you have some outstanding accomplishments given your school/personal background.</p>
<p>I am a freshman, so I will transfer to a different school with IB next year. That means no APs (other than self-studing) next year though.</p>
<p>Number AP doesn’t meter.
I have 4.0 UW GPA and 8 AP (2 F, 2 S, 4 Junior year + 2 this year ) and got rejected.
You have to check your high school.
How many kids from your school are going to Stanford.
From my hs - ZERO (nobody in last two or three years)</p>