# of AP/Honors classes THAT important, how many needed?

[NeedAdvice]

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Of course not. It depends on your application first, and then if you quality for an interview, you are given an interview and you may or may not receive the scholarship based on that interview (the interviewer decides your fate). If the guy you know is poor at being interviewed, that could explain it. If he blew his essays on his application, that could also explain it.</p>

<p>A friend of mine from high school who had comparable stats to mine (even a better GPA than me, I think, though I believe I beat her SAT score) didn’t get the scholarship. We both went in for interviews and I came out with the scholarship

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<p>Maybe. The guy is quite sarcastic, and maybe it didn’t come off well in the interview. However, I like him, so I think it’s still unfair. :)</p>

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It obviously depends. But if the top 5 in your class took 12 and you took 8, how does that look? The kid that took 5 of 5, how many did his classmates take? 2-3 normally? Then he looks better than the guy that took 8. It depends on context always. How many your school offers, how many students are your school normally take–those affect how your numbers look. That’s as it should be. Obviously it isn’t always the case that taking a smaller percentage of total offered will look worse, I’m just saying that it is best to take as many as possible, to challenge yourself above and beyond what your peers do. That always looks good.

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<p>Do you think they actually check every high school though? I mean they do not know how many APs the top people took in your high school, and supposedly they spend less than 5 minutes on each application, so it makes me wonder…</p>

[eudean]

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Do you think they actually check every high school though? I mean they do not know how many APs the top people took in your high school, and supposedly they spend less than 5 minutes on each application, so it makes me wonder…

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<p>Well I don’t know how long they spend on apps, so I can’t comment on this. If they spend an average of 5 minutes of an application, I could imagine that means the truly inferior applications they can eliminate in a matter of seconds and dedicate more time to reading the essays and comparing the applications for quality students from comparable high schools. This is pure speculation, though, I don’t actually know the process.</p>

[Strykur]

<p>No one does, Comprehensive Review’s methods are classified, the only exceptions being the Admissions department. This is important and also controversial because people speculate that affirmative action is still employed to some degree by Admissions, despite contrary law.</p>

[unlimitedx]

<p>“BTW, I know a lot of free ride students, since the free rides are typically provided by the R&C scholarship, and I’m in RCSA. None of the RCSA people I know are undeserving.”</p>

<p>These are not the R&C scholarship recipients. These are Cal Opportunity Scholarship recipients, offered because they come from disadvantaged areas.</p>

[firax]

<p>“This is pure speculation, though, I don’t actually know the process.”</p>

<p>That’s right. You obviously don’t know. No one knows besides the admissions department knows.</p>

[NeedAdvice]

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This is important and also controversial because people speculate that affirmative action is still employed to some degree by Admissions, despite contrary law.

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<p>Of course it’s still being used. Not that it’s bad; it’s just ridiculous to say it’s wiped out.</p>