<p>If your high school offers four AP courses and you took all four (including English Literature and Calculus BC), it probably looks better than if it offers twenty and you took the following five: Physics B, Statistics, Environmental Science, Psychology, and a language that you are a native speaker of.</p>
<p>Dual enrollment or other college courses taken during high school are also favorable, assuming you took decent ones (not “physics for poets” and similar types of courses).</p>