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<p>Your strength of schedule does contribute to the evaluation of your application. That being said, you can take hard classes and do well without having to take AP’s or a certain quota of them.</p>
<p>Basically, Rice needs to know that you arent taking easy classes, but they do not have any expectations on what AP’s you take and when. AP’s help your transfer credit more than anything, so take the AP’s you might want to test out of in college</p>