Will This Hurt My Chances To Get Into These Schools?

Applying to College
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<p>USC (Southern California)
NYU
Cal State Long Beach
San Fran State U
San Diego State U
Pace University
Yale
Marymount Manhattan
LMU (CA)
Northeastern</p>

<p>I am a junior and I have a 3.8-3.9 GPA (UW) and a 4.40 (W)</p>

<p>I have stellar ECs, I mean STELLAR ECs! I have received national recognition because of my ECs.</p>

<p>I am a great writer so my essay should be good and my teacher/ counselor recommendations should be amazing!</p>

<p>I take all honors classes and one AP. Will take hurt my chances for getting into these schools?</p>

<p>I will take two-three more APs next year, but will it make a difference?</p>

<p>As for my SATs I will study hard and aim for a 2000+</p>

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<p>Will what hurt your chances? Not taking that many APs? It depends how many your school offers. If only, say, four are available then taking 3-4 won’t be held against you.</p>

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<p>My schools offer a good amount of APs. If I take more in my senior year, will it help at all?</p>

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<p>I did a double take when I saw your weighted GPA and then saw you’d only taken one AP. I suppose your HS must weight honors classes. I need to keep in mind that not all WGPAs are equal.</p>

<p>How’s your class rank?</p>

<p>Some of the schools on your list are surely within reach but, in general, I’m afraid you may be punished at some for not taking better advantage of you HS’s AP offerings.</p>

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<p>Yes, my school weighs honors. But if I take more APs senior year, will it help me out?</p>

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<p>Yes, but you gotta make sure you take the AP exams too or else they won’t “count”</p>

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<p>So it is okay if I take all honors and one AP in 11th, but I have to take two-three next year right?</p>

<p>Will those schools even look at my 12th grade schedule?</p>

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<p>Haha bro chilll out. Honestly, I think APs are a joke - not as in they’re easy, but that they don’t function like they’re supposed to. Cramming massive amounts of information into teenager’s heads just so they can pass an exam and look better on their college application helps them zero percent in real life.
But that’s just me. Take as many APs as you can without being overwhelmed so you can “play the system”, as I call it - you’re doing what colleges want you to do. You’re only helping yourself, assuming you do well in these classes. My schedule this year is College Prep Physics, Honors World Literature, AP Psychology, AP Spanish, and AP Stats (the easiest class I am taking this year, it’s SO easy). I’m doing fine, but there are times when I’m up til 1AM doing HW for two weeks in a row</p>

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<p>What Bdangle says is not actually correct. You are not at all required to take your senior year APs, unless your school makes you do so. </p>

<p>Regarding these 3 schools:
Cal State Long Beach
San Fran State U
San Diego State U</p>

<p>The CA state colleges (as opposed to the UCs) do not really have an admissions committee. They take your grades and your SAT score and come up with a single number. Then they compare your number to a threshold, if you are above it, you are in. The threshold changes depending on where you live. If you are in the immediate area of the school you have the lowest threshold (some schools do not have this immediate area). Some schools also have another area that might be underrepresented by colleges, so they will have a slightly higher threshold. Everyone else in the state with have another higher one. OOS have the highest, but still not that high. You would probably be in at CSU campus.</p>

<p>OTOH, if you are OOS, the CSU system is a poor use of your tuition dollars.</p>

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<p>So will the lack of APs affect my chances for USC and NYU in a negative way?</p>

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<p>anotherparent, did I ever say that he/she NEEDED to take these classes? No. If they are all caught up in them, then they should go for it. Please pay attention before calling my information “incorrect”</p>

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<p>Bdangle, this

is what you said that anotherparent is referencing. I agree with anotherparent that taking the exams or not isn’t that big a deal.</p>

<p>If you talk to me now the way you spoke to anotherparent, I’m going to send you to your room.</p>

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<p>Yes, indeed, Sherpa, I was correcting that part. Bdangle - you have issues.</p>

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<p>GasolKobe - I think you’re in range for NYU and USC, but a few more APs on your senior schedule would only help you. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Clearly I have issues. You just lost all credibility by sounding immature.
And no, it is not a great idea to take the AP class without the exam. If you do that, then the college will know that you took the AP class to look good but you couldn’t actually pull everything together and take the exam. How do I know this? Countless teachers, counselors, and admissions officers have told me.
Also, back to to what I said earlier…
anotherparent says:“what Bdangle says is not actually correct. You are not at all required to take your senior year APs, unless your school makes you do so.”
I never said that you don’t need to “take your senior year APs.” If by "APs’ you mean “AP exams,” which is pretty ambiguous on your part, then yes, I did say that. But you didn’t make yourself clear. Grow up</p>

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<p>It depends… if your school offers 20 APs and you’ve only taken 3 by senior year, then yes it might hurt your chances.</p>

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<p>You have at least 3.5 GPA, and you’re not a convicted criminal, right? You’re in at NYU.</p>

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<p>I meet all those requirement so am I good?</p>

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<p>My school offers about 15 APs but 13 of them I can’t take because I am a junior or because I didn’t take Algebra II.</p>

<p>So pretty much I could have only taken three APs this year. </p>

<p>Once I complete Algebra II after I finish my junior year, I will be allowed to take the rest of the APs when I’m a senior</p>