<p>What the others said!</p>
<p>Your application to any college will be evaluated against others in their application pool; one of the important measurements is the rigor of the curriculum you have undertaken in comparison to the context of your high school, and in comparison to all the other applicants in their pool. So, look around you, and honestly assess how you stack up compared to those around you.</p>
<p>Whether you took AP This or That won’t be important to med school admissions committees when you get around to applying. What will be important to them is that you took the courses required for admission, and how you performed in those courses.</p>
<p>What you do need to realize is that most of the students taking the required courses for med school application WILL have taken those classes at the AP level while in high school, and that you will be competing against these students for the top grades in these classes so you will be a strong applicant to med school.</p>
<p>Begin with the context of your high school. If your high school offers both an honors and an AP class in chemistry, for example, is it understood that the AP class is more rigorous and taken by the strongest students? So, if you taken the honors class instead of the AP class, how will you do next year taking the college class alongside the student who took the AP class? You might do fine; again, you might struggle to keep up with her.</p>
<p>Obviously you don’t want to take a crazy number of AP classes in high school because of the workload; and some high schools limit the number of APs you can take at any one time. But pick and choose your APs wisely so as to best prepare yourself for the premed competition you will face in college.</p>