<p>Ummmm … I think we may offer 16 AP courses. It’s also a public school that’s fairly well known, which ties into the point below (i.e., discussions with admissions officers)</p>
<p>In her Junior year, when she was planning her schedule, she spoke with admissions officers at various schools we visited (including NU and peer institutions). She was universally told that the rigor of her schedule was fine – even though it only included 1 AP soph year, and two in junior year.</p>
<p>Now, this is a one-year-old story, and the world may have changed in the last year, but basically we were told (at NU and other peers) that so long as the vast majority of your core courses are honors or AP, you’re ok.</p>
<p>I guess my point is that after your schedule has a certain degree of rigor, I’m not sure that there’s much of an admissions advantage to taking APs for the sake of AP. </p>
<p>I bet someone could write a great essay about choosing not to take a specific AP course, because of intellectual curiosity about the subject matter of a non-AP course.</p>
<p>Re OP – Probably shouldn’t give that reason for dropping AP in an Application, but at least it’s honest. As I say, my (uneducated) guess is that the schedule will be fine from a rigor standpoint.</p>