<p>Something that’s been kinda bugging me lately is that I’ve noticed that a lot of people on the chancing topic and in general posting schedules put like 4 APs down 10th grade year. At my school in order to take an AP class such as AP Chemistry, you have to take and get at least a B+ in Chemistry. Same with history and languages and every other AP topic. I don’t know if this will put other kids who take AP Bio without any previous Bio at a disadvantage because they are just learning the basics at an advanced level or if this will put me at a disadvantage because I can not take so many APs simply because there is no time to take them because I have to do the prereqs first. Is it even normal for schools to do what my school is doing with APs? Sorry guys, I’ve just been a little frustrated with this.</p>
<p>IsaacM I’m on the exact same boat. No AP Bio w/o Biology (and when I took bilogy AP Bio didn’t exist), No AP Chem w/o Chem or no AP Physics w/o Physics. I’m not sure how they manage it but in this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/915676-ap-classes.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/915676-ap-classes.html</a> you see stevewh saying that it’s not the norm.</p>
<p>I’m just as worried as you are. I’ve taken the most rigorous schedule at my school and I’ll only end up with 4-5 APs. I’m hoping this will end up being okay. I guess we’ll just have to see how a kid from Kansas will fair.</p>
<p>I am actually self-studying a lot of my AP courses as I posted in that tread. My old school uses that system but the international school I go to now doesn’t even offer a third of the APs my old school offered.</p>
<p>Your school should be sending a school profile along with your application. And in your school profile, it should explain what AP classes are offered, what’s possible and stuff like that. There are definitely people here with just 1 or 2, or maybe even no AP classes just because that’s all that was offered in their school.</p>
<p>MIT will absolutely take the context of your school into account. They know that schools have different requirements and that certain schedules aren’t even possible at some schools. My high school only offered 4 AP classes, and because of scheduling rules it was only possible for any one person to take 2 of them by graduation. (In fact, I don’t think you could take any until your senior year.) This is why they have your guidance counselor send in a profile of your school and discuss your work and courseload in context of what is available to you. I promise, it’s not something to worry about.</p>
<p>To OP: It doesn’t really matter. They can have as many APs as they want, but MIT compares you to your school. You have restrictions on what APs you can take, while those other kids don’t. MIT will see that. Nothing to fret over, it won’t hurt you. Though, being in the same boat as you are I understand where you are coming from. But, if you think about it, they have to take more APs than you do to have taken the hardest curriculum possible, therefore making their lives more difficult. Remember, MIT has very stringent rules on accepting APs for credit too.</p>