Does this carry the same prestige as a National AP scholar award?

An0maly
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:40:37 +0000

Yes, I know I sound terribly conceited at the moment,



Yeah you do mate I was about to leave this thread but I posted because I feel nobody else will.

Colleges will see your predicted scores when reviewing your application so all 7’s looks terrific. I don’t know about the correlation between predicted/actual scores, but they won’t rescind your admission if you don’t get all 7’s because you’re not admitted based off your actual scores.

Of the 7 exams you mentioned, Chem, Euro, and Spanish are the only ones that are regarded as actually challenging/sorta difficult. English Lang. is another one but you’ve already taken English Lit. so what’s the use? Having national AP scholar is cool but it’s not a huge deal, and self studies aren’t that significant as compared to actually having the class. If you really want to, just study for Chem, Euro, and Spanish so you can get your 8 for national AP scholar, and use the rest of your time for your IB subjects and extracurriculars. That’ll help more for college admission because your academic sector is already covered.

Also, I understand you go to a great prep school or whatever but people on CC know a lot about college admissions so I suggest you scale back a bit. We do realize which of your exams are “some of the hardest you can take” :P