blitz

Is it better to take more AP's in junior year than senior year or does it even matter? This in terms of ivy league admissions.

For example,

student 1: took 4 ap exams in gr11, got all 5's
taking 7 ap exams in gr12

student 2: took 7 ap exams in gr11, got some 5's and some 4's
taking 4 ap exams in gr12


How would colleges think of the scheduling for each student? Mind you in the end, its the same amount of ap exams.

nickel381

I'm pretty sure that schools want to make sure that your schedule is getting progressively harder and that you senior year schedule is not incredibly easy compared to other years. Maybe you could divide them more evenly, maybe 5 junior year and 6 senior year?

Gryffon5147

Nobody will care. Period.
That's the most insane question I've ever heard.

Ivy League schools are not scrutinizing your transcript just because of the order of your already insane AP course list. I never heard of anyone get in because of the number of APs alone. But I have heard of people that took more APs they could handle(AP Physics cough, cough...) and ended up dropping out of high school.

Make sure you can handle the coursework before you take it. And never follow your friends into a banzai charge only the best of you will survive.

Anyway, you don't want to hear a critical response that does not answer your question, so my opinion is:
I would support the 7APs in junior year, and what hopefully lands you an AP National Scholar recognition.

flong

doode 7 aps is insane as it is. I think 4 is the true limit. Colleges say they want an increase or consistency, so if u took 7 aps, u needa take 7 aps senior year.