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<p>I’m a cynic who generally takes everything an adcom says with a grain of salt. Think about it: adcoms at public Unis must be sensitive to instate high schools which may not offer any AP’s. Thus, it is important to provide the spin of fairness across the state in principle – regardless of whether such fairness exists in fact. In other words, just because they don’t’ care about “more than 5” doesn’t necessarily mean that the students with 10-5’s are being rejected right and left. </p>
<p>Wrt to HYPSM, I have no doubt that they don’t care much for 5+ AP’s, because I would guess that most of their applicants have that many. Thus, it really is not much of a differentiator. Kinda like a 700+ test score is a given to be competitive.</p>