APs and College Admissions?

chemistry101
Wed, 11 May 2005 06:25:33 +0000

Well how do they really know what the most demanding schedule from each school is? Wouldn’t it in fact do the opposite? If a person went to a bad school, took a few APs, and got straight A’s, how would that look better than a person going to a highly competitive and top school in their state? Do admissions people look at facts about the school? Do they remember which schools are highly competitive?

And also my school and other schools that are highly competitve don’t even report rank. They just report quintile, I believe (I’m in the top one). They won’t even report the rank for the valedictorian because overall for all their students it actually ends up hurting them in college admissions because a lot of their ranks are really low when if any of them went to a different school they could be first, or close to it, in their class.