Are too many AP's bad?

wynter
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:11:15 +0000

i think enhancing your schedule’s rigor by taking AP classes helps, but self-studying, in terms of college admissions, is useless and does make you appear to be an antisocial studying robot. not saying you are, but it may appear that way. i doubt it would hurt your chances that much though, but when a college admissions officer looks at the AP score section (if they even do) and sees environmental science, psychology, etc. with 5 next to it, i doubt it’s influencing their decision much. it may help in “lower-tier” (quotes because i don’t like “ranking” colleges per se) schools but i doubt it helps once you get up there. i feel your time would better be spent getting involved with your friends or your community or doing something you like or whatever. just in general, not in the college admissions sense.