<p>zephr15- It sounds like your d’s school may have had less APs (from what you said, your d essentially had 4 APs and 1 that was higher than AP. This=5.5 when you look at the level of rigor). The OP’s has much more from what he mentioned about the valedictorian (I think they try and assess how many APs are offered vs. those taken). Also, your D had a 34 ACT. Surely that helped a lot. Also, I wonder if females have an advantage in engineering admissions especially when they have high stats. I think it applies to public schools, but I don’t know about privates. However, w/a 34 ACT and post-APs, she probably would have gotten in anyway.</p>
<p>I really only pounced the OP b/c of the reasoning behind not taking the additional AP. It just doesn’t make much sense to me. I’m guessing that having physics and calc. helps.</p>