How Many AP's Are Too Many?

MYOS1634
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:51:36 +0000

Top schools want to see a TOTAL of 4-8, preferably including English Language plus a choice from one ap science, one ap foreign language, one application history, and calculus ab OR bc, or all 4. Those are "core " aps; then you have solid but elective ap s which you can use to show commitment to an area of interest, such as music theory, art, cs, gov, economics; then you have "light aps ", from Human Geography, whose purpose is to introduce freshmen and sophomores to the ap style; ap stats for students who won’t/can’t take calc or want to supplement their ap economics class; psych and ap environmental science, to provide either a challenging class for kids who’ve never dared try ap , or a junior/senior year respite for kids overloaded with aps.
Try not to take more than 4 Jr and senior year each ( 5 if one is a “light” ap ), plus human geography freshman year and two sophomore year. Total, 11. That’d be the absolute maximum to guarantee you both a life and good college outcomes.