<p>The important factor is NOT the number of APs, but the proportion that you took of the ones that were available to you.</p>
<p>For example, at my HS all APs were year-long, and the maximum any student could take, except in extreme and unusual circumstances, was 5 in senior year and 1 or 2 in junior year. In other schools, it is common for the top students to take 10 or more classes. Some schools don’t even offer AP classes, including many top-tier schools.</p>
<p>I recommend you take as many APs as your school offers. In particular, any time your HS offers a choice between an AP class and a regular version, you should take the AP class. But there isn’t much of a benefit to stuffing your schedule with self-taught APs just to get the number up.</p>