Number of AP Classes to be a Competitive Applicant

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Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:31:11 +0000

APs are not all colleges care about. Take the ones you’re interested in. I’ve been accepted at Northeastern, UMich, UW, UCSC, and others this year, and I only took 1 AP as a junior (Physics 1), and I’m taking 4 this year as a senior (Economics, Spanish Lit, Calc AB, Environmental Science).
I enjoyed high school a lot more than other people I know. That doesn’t mean I partied every weekend (I’m actually not a partier at all), I just got internships I found interesting and spent time working and/or traveling when I wasn’t at school.
I doubt I would be a competitive applicant for a school like Harvard, but it was never my goal to suffer in high school just to get into an Ivy. If you want the perfect stats because your dream school is one of those, don’t take my path. But if you want to enjoy the next few years to the fullest and still be successful in college, don’t drown yourself in work.