AP classes denial from school

[ucbalumnus]

@Brown79

The way it works with some highly-selective colleges (and maybe others) is that your HS guidance counselor submits a form to the college stating whether or not you took the hardest level of courses offered at your HS.

I don’t know exactly what the form looks like from one college to the next,

For colleges using The Common Application, here is the school report form the counselor fills:

https://commonapp.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#d0000000eEna/a/1L000000guQg/GnFtbzQMfhXi0S4IXIOgI1r2h28wqtbNX2aUHuRbd3k
(from Member Support )

The question you are referring to is:

“In comparison with other college preparatory students at your school, the student’s course selection is:
_ Less than demanding
_ Average
_ Demanding
_ Very Demanding
_ Most Demanding
_ Prefer not to respond”

The counselor is also asked to rank the student in academic achievement, extracurricular accomplishments, personal qualities and character, and overall.

The questions do not suggest that a student who could not take the most demanding courses because they were rationed out of them while others could take them should get the most demanding mark.