@cinnamon1212 I can tell you in our experience that a few of the scenarios outlined above had zero negative impact on college admission decisions for our daughter last year. We pressured our daughter to take 1 AP test - which she bombed with a 2. Obviously she didn’t submit the score - so had no AP credits on her application. But she was a well rounded applicant with all the the other things expected on her resume from attending a top BS and got in almost every school to which she applied- including ivies. I know that this is not a big enough data point to sway the conversation. But, I do think top colleges look at the entire application in context.