<p>I’m combing both the school courses
and independent study to finish
14 APs next year… Assuming I do well on those,
would this still hurt by presenting me as a nerd?
I will do other Extra curriculars absolutely.</p>
<p>…No. What gave you that idea?</p>
<p>That puts you in the higher part of the pile, in terms of # APs, but there are students who take 23 and the like.</p>
<p>So no, not nerdy. Ambitious, I’d say.</p>
<p>I don’t think it would look nerdy, and if you can do well at all of that while maintaining ECs…then more power to you.
The one concern I would have is that presumably, many of those would be self-study, right? (I know you said some, but you didn’t specify.) I’m also assuming you’ll be a senior. Since you will not, at the time of application, have any scores to show for the self-study classes, colleges may wonder about how seriously you are persuing them, or if you are simply saying that you’re self-studying to have more APs.</p>
<p>yes nerdy, im pretty sure colleges want you to take AP classes in place of regular classes in order to challenge yourself and prepare for what you’re going to study in college, not just to see how many you can take. Anything over 10 is just unnecessary.</p>
<p>Have you taken AP exams/classes before? IMO, I’d have serious reservations on how someone who does 14 AP classes would have time to truly enjoy his/her extracurricular activities. I’m taking 5 my senior year and it has been a challenge. You can try to get a head start during the summer but I just don’t see how there are enough hours in a day…</p>
<p>Maybe the OPs school has easy APs</p>
<p>Well, 14 is still a lot…even some of the “easier” AP classes like Psychology and Human Geography, you still need to spend time to study.</p>
<p>read his post… he’ll have 14 finished… as in 14 for his whole high school career</p>
<p>The impression I got was he was doing 14 AP classes in a year.</p>
<p>As long as you’re getting 4s/5s I don’t see why it would be a problem…</p>
<p>yeah it might be…</p>
<p>It might hurt in the sense your grades may slip, but if combined with other things, will definitely not present you as a nerd.</p>
<p>Once you get to a certain level of academic rigor, taking more APs won’t help that much. The difference between a student who takes 10 APs and a student who takes 14 APs is next to none, so why are you taking so many? If it’s just to impress colleges, save your time. They won’t be that much more impressed. And since, as a senior, you don’t have 4’s or 5’s to show for the AP, colleges may think that you aren’t serious about your self-study. If the subject matter genuinely interests you, by all means go ahead. But colleges won’t care, at least not nearly as much as you think they do.</p>