AP Class Importance?

Superman234
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:30:13 +0000

Aiming for top schools, I’d say it’s nearly essential to be cramming in a relatively high number of AP and honors classes. Colleges claim to be interested in seeing students take what interests them and not overloading themselves, but the harsh reality is that the standardization of the AP label makes it a valuable barometer of a student’s intensity. Of the 16 students who were admitted to H, Y, P, Penn, and MIT from my school, only five took fewer than two AP classes as a junior (and of those five, two were recruits and one had amazing extracurriculars). I think it definitely plays a significant role.