Potential Sr Yr APs

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<p>does indicating that you’re going to take 10 APs (self studying 2 of them) in your Sr Yr help you with college admissions at all?</p>

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<p>Why do you want to take 10 APs?</p>

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<p>Not really. What matters is that you’re taking challenging classes, not necessarily that you’re going to take a bunch of AP tests. AP tests are for college credit and advanced placement. But you might as well, in your application, say which AP tests you plan to take, although I don’t think they really care.</p>

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<p>well i am taking 7 classes and 2 of them have double APs (macro and micro, and gov and politics)</p>

<p>i wont be takin chem cuz i already took it</p>

<p>and then im self-studying for mayb psych and one other one like human geo or something just for fun</p>

<p>would it help?</p>

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<p>First, you should check the AP policies for the schools that you’re going to apply to. Sometimes, they will offer only a limited amount of credit for each subject. For example, if the college only gives 5 credits for advanced history classes in high school, and you already get 5 credits by taking European history, there’s not much of a point to taking the World History and US History tests. So check to see if taking the exams will actually do anything.</p>

<p>Just tell them if you want. It probably won’t help at all, but why not?</p>

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<p>lol i dont understand why don’t they help? taking competitions help so why not self-studying APs?</p>

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<p>The thing is that the admission officers really have no evidence that you actually are self-studying aps.</p>

<p>And without the ap scores, they have no clue of how good a job you are doing. Anybody could write that down…</p>

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<p>@narcissa</p>

<p>Gov and politics is one exam.</p>

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<p>I think the OP meant US gov and comparative gov.</p>

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<p>lol yeah but don’t you <em>send in</em> scores from AP central??</p>

<p>and yeah thanks for the correction ^</p>

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<p>You apply to colleges in the fall of '08…
You take AP tests in the spring of '09…
You get your AP scores in the summer of '09…</p>

<p>Admissions decisions are made BEFORE AP scores come out.</p>

<p>Therefore, I think taking 10 APs your senior year is quite dumb.</p>

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<p>i know, but what about self-studying for APs in jr year?</p>

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<p>thats good. they definently like that</p>