<p>This is a question for current UChicago students and maybe recent graduates of UChicago. I was wondering, if it isn’t too much to ask, what APs you took (listed by year), and what scores you got on the exams? Thanks.</p>
<p>There’s no magic number. I took around 8 and got mostly 5’s, but I have friends who obtained perfect scores on 12+ AP’s and others with not so stellar records. Many times it depends on the opportunities and standards in your school, which is why you’re better off comparing yourself to previous students from your high school that applied to UChicago.</p>
<p>Also, I’d like to point out that you don’t necessarily have to take the largest number or the toughest AP’s that are available in your school, or at least that’s what my senior year experience would suggest. The most successful college applicant in my grade didn’t take the toughest course load and missed out on some of the most rigorous AP’s, yet he was still accepted to Harvard with a Likely Letter without being an athletic recruit or URM. I suggest you take the most challenging classes in subjects that legitimately interest you, you’re bound to do better and won’t actually mind doing all that work.</p>
<p>10th grade:</p>
<p>World History-4</p>
<p>11th grade:</p>
<p>Calc BC-1
Physics B-2
Art History-4
US History-5
Lang and Comp-5</p>
<p>12th grade:</p>
<p>Stats-4
Macro econ-4
Bio-3
Lit and Comp-5
US Gov-5</p>
<p>Totally agree with PMCM18, AP stuff as it pertains to colleges is very subjective and depends on your school/the opportunities your school presents to you. A kid from the rural midwest would not be penalized for taking only one or two AP courses if those were the only ones the school offered. A kid from NYC might be if his school offers 10 or 15 AP level courses and he/she only takes a few. </p>
<p>That being said, AP scores are largely not that important in college admissions - the fact that you self-report them probably means that the college isn’t very concerned about them. My school was against AP courses on philosophical grounds, and thus didn’t offer them, but plenty of people walked into the testing area in early May after taking a roughly-corresponding course that year and did well. If you take AP courses then your grades in those courses are probably more important than the test scores for admission purposes, but if you get a high grade in an AP course and a 2 or 3 on the test, then the worst it’ll do is cast doubt on the rigor of your high school curriculum.</p>
<p>As for me (these were “self-study” as there were no AP courses but mostly I had taken some kind of course related to them):</p>
<p>10th Grade:
AP Computer Science A - 5
AP U.S. History - 5</p>
<p>11th Grade:
AP Chemistry - 5
AP Biology - 5
AP Calculus - 5 (AB subscore - 5)
AP Spanish Lang - 4</p>
<p>12th Grade:
AP Statistics - 5
AP English Lang - 5
AP Physics C: Mechanics - 4 (my school’s physics curriculum sucked, so I didn’t bother with the AP for E&M :D)</p>
<p>This might sound a little snide, but I’ll write it anyway-</p>
<p>If you’re the kind of student who is currently contemplating whether to take an academic subject as an AP or similarly “hard” class or an on-level class, the University of Chicago probably is not the best place for you. It’s filled with students who found the hard classes of high school pretty easy.</p>
<p>I took 18. I know a few kids who went to schools with less than 4-5 AP’s offered and got in. Colleges look at you in relation to what is offered. If you are required to take a Physics class in your high school junior year then you should probly take it at the highest level offered. Rigor of curriculum is very important and your guidance counselor will be asked to rank how difficult of classes you decided to take in relation to your peers at your school.</p>