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<p>At the public high school my kids attended, every year there are probably 30-40 kids who graduate with 6-7 AP courses. Probably half of those kids go to public universities, and substantially all of the ones who do graduate in three years (sometimes less). The kids regard this as having real economic importance to them.</p>
<p>Ironically, the few kids who take more APs than that are often comparatively unlikely to benefit, since most of them wind up at selective private universities that give them very little for their AP credits. There were six kids in my son’s class with 8-10 APs, and only one of them will get any actual college credit for them.</p>