@momof2eagles what are his senior AP’s that you’re debating whether he should take? Pomona is like most top tier privates in being stingy about giving credit for AP’s. Once you’re maxed out on AP credits, the ones that are actually useful for placement and prerequisites are the foreign language AP’s, math AP’s, science AP’s and AP Psych and AP Stat. The history and English AP’s seem useless. AP Macro and Micro are useful, although you can still place out of those classes with Pomona’s own placement exam. My D felt that one reason she didn’t do that well on the Pomona placement exam for macro was that she hadn’t studied for the AP exam and had taken the class in Fall of her senior year and didn’t remember it that well.
The funny thing is that in all the college admissions threads, everyone disrespects AP Stats and AP Psych as lightweight AP’s that supposedly will not impress admission committees. But it turns out that once you’re in college, they’re more useful (at least at Pomona) than the English and history AP’s.