Relative importance of AP's

GeekMom63
Fri, 07 May 2010 00:29:39 +0000

I’m not an admissions counselor. I don’t think APs specifically would be that important, as long as you have other outside validation. I think it would be a good idea to take lots of SAT IIs and maybe a few CLEPs. No, they don’t have the same panache as APs, but APs aren’t necessary. When you write the counselor letter, you just say that the local schools wouldn’t allow non-students to take the APs there but the student has all this other outside validation.

And the high schools are definitely not obligated to allow your kids to test there - I was surprised when I found this out too.