How Many AP's Are Too Many?

Stanccepted
Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:31:32 +0000

Well… having too many APs would mean you can’t manage them all.

My personal recommendation is to not focus on inflating your schedule with APs (like APES or music theory or similar classes considered to be easy As). It seems like you’ll have enough APs to look good to colleges… they don’t really count the APs you take.

Definitely max out the math and science APs (okay, I guess you can take APES, but only if you REALLY WANT TO). Don’t take classes that aren’t interesting to you just for the sake of an extra grade. Colleges notice that easily… if you wanna go into med school yet have taken a bunch of history APs without expressing any interest in history apart from that, they may think you’re trying to inflate your schedule (which isn’t bad, but it’s not good).

I wouldn’t be afraid of taking too many APs… that’s like saying “can my grade be too high.” But I would make sure to prioritize the meaningful classes. You can fill in the blanks with those AP inflators if you want (everyone does it), but don’t let the draw of a higher rank/GPA distract you from the important stuff.