International student curious on APs for a physics major

I am an international student from Turkiye, planning to get into an ivy league or into a college that offers full financial aid. I have a “gpa” of 99/100, I have a 4 from AP Biology and a 4 from AP Envrionmental Science(just by self studying). I have strong extracurriculars. I am going to be a physics major, so I have started self studying for AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C Mechanics. I was also planning on taking AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism, however; I have decided to apply for research programs and figured it would be too much to manage all at the same time.(my school does not offer aps, I study it all by myself along with school homework and school exams, so it’s pretty challenging for me) I still want to have 5 APs on my application but I’m unsure on which one to take if not AP physics c E&M. would my application look weak academically if i didn’t take e&m?

An application to a US university is not weaker by not having AP scores when the school doesn’t offer the courses.

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Also, any AP tests taken senior year will not have been taken prior to college application due dates. So the universities will not even see those AP results.

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Calculus is IMHO a bad thing to self-study. The biggest issue I see is that calculus is very, very useful for a lot of other classes that you might take in the future. The only students who might be able to get away with self-studying calculus are ones who are very strong at mathematics, and these are specifically the students who are most likely to use calculus many times. Personally I have used calculus in many classes that I took after I took calculus, mostly including physics and math classes, and I have also used calculus on the job multiple times.

I think that you should wait on both calculus and calculus-based physics. You can learn this as a student in university.

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