Number of AP courses

citivas
Fri, 05 May 2023 14:58:49 +0000

No one answer for all colleges, but generally no, there is no AP quota, formal or informal. However, they do look for “course rigor” so if your school offers AP’s in the core academic subjects and you don’t take most of them, they would potentially see that as either not qualifying for or avoiding the most challenging academic opportunities available to you. This isn’t an absolute, so if you do them in most core subjects available to you but not in all, that’s fine, especially for elective sciences, etc. where there are a lot of other options usually.

If you don’t live in California but want to apply to the UCs, I would note that based on the way the UC’s calculate GPA uniquely of everyone else, you will either need to take a lot of AP’s or take a lot of local college dual enrollment courses to be competitive at many of the UCs. They will not count any courses other than AP, DE or IB in weighted GPA. So none of an OOS students "honors,’ “advanced,” "accelerated,’ “high honors,” etc. classes get a weight.