Number of APs?

nugraddad
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:45:49 +0000

For most schools, no it does not matter. For the top 30 schools - Ivys & Ivy-likes such as Stanford, Northwestern etc. everything matters. So, much depends on where you want to go, or think you have a chance to go. The top schools will look at how many your HS offers, how many APs you took, how well you scored in them (via GPA).

IMHO, you should take them because you want to be challenged, and learn. How some AdCom reader will look at them should be secondary.