<p>I see numerous people saying how they take like 6 AP's a year, and I think "My school doesn't even offer that many." I think sometimes the high school you go to <em>does</em> affect your chances of college, even though colleges say they weigh how good your high school is.</p>
<p>At my school if you take 3 AP classes a year you are considered crazy. No one from my school ever goes to Ivies or anything. We're a top school in the area but we're not good nationally.
Is your high school one that produces many Ivy League undergraduates?</p>
<p>I’m taking 5 APs next year but hey that’s how kids on CC are. Our school probably offers 7-8. That’s probably an estimate though, too lazy to check the website. One kid this year applied to MIT, rejected. Lawl.</p>
<p>At my school APs aren’t offered until junior year, and then you’re not allowed to take more than 3 AP classes a year, period. We are sending over a third (~61/177) of our graduating class to an Ivy League college this year…</p>
<p>Most top kids at my school end up with around 4 or 5 APs, yet most of our class of 60 gets into top colleges, with about 5-8 getting into Ivies + Stanford each year.</p>
<p>Well the school will look at not how many AP you took, but how many APs were offered and if you took advantage of that. Like I am taking 4 AP’s next year, junior year, and will have taken all but 2 of the APs my school offeres by the time I graduate. (through self stufy as well, my school offeres 7 AP classes, and I will take some next year at the local community college.</p>
<p>Two years ago or so, my school had the most APs in the nation. So yeah, we have a lot. Most kids go to OSU or UCinci or OU, but we get quite a few at top schools.</p>
<p>We’re a pretty good school. We have 2-4 per year (out of 50) go to Ivies and maybe 4 go to other top tier schools (swarthmore, duke, etc). So that’s about 15% at top schools, I guess that’s not great, but it’s not bad.</p>
<p>Two (or three) for Junior year, Four for Senior year, but it’s almost impossible to get all 6 in without sacrificing another class like DE Gov (which ALL the academic students take) or Spanish IV (which almost all academic students take).</p>
<p>See, we’re adding three out of those 6 this coming year, so it really is almost impossible to take all 6 without sacrificing Spanish IV or the Gov class that’s actually worth it.</p>
<p>As far as I know, we have no students that matriculate to Ivies. Ever. The best would be UVA and W&M. </p>
<p>Most academic students take at least one AP per year. Some take two. </p>
<p>I took APUSH only this past year and will be taking AP Eng Lit and AP Psych this coming year, so three out of six (though I did take the AP Eng Lang exam if that counts for anything), plus two DE courses.</p>
<p>We have 15 APs available only for juniors and seniors. You’re not allowed to take more than five, and if you’re not on our guidance counselor’s good side, then you aren’t even allowed to take that many. I know someone who wanted to take two next year, but the guidance counselor would only let him take one.</p>
<p>But there’s also the difference that my school only offers five non-Honors classes.</p>
<p>So AP classes are like ‘honors classes’. Honors classes are like ‘normal classes’. Regular Classes are like ‘basic classes’. However… the weight is still the same. Honors= +.5 GPA and AP=+1.0 GPA. =/</p>
<p>We haven’t had ivy-league students in a while, but I’m sure if someone wanted to go to one they could. We do have students earning full scholarships (like at LSU) or getting into ‘southern ivies’ like Duke.</p>
<p>No one goes to just a community college. (Though there is nothing wrong with going to a two-year then transferring to a four year.) Everyone goes to a four year university. =/</p>
<p>^We have a lot of that do community college + transfer to uni. Mostly because of money, but some because of being like…C students and such. </p>
<p>I have a really good friend that’s an incredibly talented artist (ranked 6) that wants to major in graphic design, but she couldn’t get enough money to go the colleges she got accepted to, so now she’s going the community college route. </p>
<p>It’s sad because I know she wants to the same study abroad that another good friend of ours’ is doing at the same college she wanted to go to. =( </p>
<p>my school have around 15 ap classes
around 20 ivy + 60 berkeley(LOL) + 50 other top school students this year (class size 500 ish). most people dont take AP classes till Junior year, and umm, on average ppl take 3ish ap classes during highschool. but of course there are overachievers and wanna-be overachievers (aka me) who attempts 5AP classes junior year and stuff. oh and our school doesnt weight, which sucks for ppl who get pwned im ap classes (aka me again)</p>
<p>My school only have 10 APs
Most are for juniors and seniors.
Sophomores and juniors only allowed one.
Seniors are only allowed to take two.
The only way you can take a AP as a sophomore is if you have a backgroundin Spanish and skip Spanish 1-6 or you took a lot of sciences in Junior high school and past the state test.</p>
<p>my school has four, I think… chemistry, calculus, studio art, us history. no one really takes more than one per year, and the people who take AP’s at all are considered like, genius. lol, i guess my school just isn’t that intellectual…</p>
<p>Our local public HS offers 16 AP classes. Each year, a handful from a class around 520+ get accepted to Ivies. This year includes Yale, Penn and Columbia (don’t know if there are multiple acceptance in there.)</p>
<p>By the time he graduates next fall, my S will have completed the following APs or equivalents (11 total):</p>
<p>MATH
AP Calculus BC (5)
Linear Algebra (online college class) (A)
Multivariable Calculus (online college class)</p>
<p>SCIENCES
AP Physics C (pending)
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>FOREIGN LANGUAGE
AP Spanish Language (5)</p>
<p>SOCIAL SCIENCE
AP European History (4)
AP US History (pending)
AP Macroeconomics</p>
<p>ENGLISH
AP English Language (pending)
AP English Lit</p>
<p>Apart from AP Computer Science 1 and 2, we have no Freshman AP classes, 1 Sophomore AP class (AP World History, which was an absolute joke… I honestly learned nothing all year, and sometimes my teacher would literally just give us coloring pages because he didn’t want to teach), 2 Junior AP classes - AP Physics (the whole second semester the teacher just had us copy pages from the book and turn them in) and AP English 3, and then for seniors there’s AP English 4 (which no one takes anyway). I think that’s all… We do have several Dual Credit courses, though. I know only one person to have gone out of state for college (there’s nothing wrong with that because my state has a handful of really good schools, just saying…)</p>