AP classes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is on track to have the following number of AP classes:
9th— 0
10th— 3
11th— 5-6
12th— 4-5

My question is: if a kid is not playing to major in science/engineering, do they need to take at least one AP science class to get into a decent college? What if they have 10-12 APs, but none are science? With AP science taking two periods, scheduling becomes difficult.

Take one AP science. AP Environmental Science is not 2 periods.

This. Also AP Physics 1 is a single period

Nope. Not at our school. AP Physics 1 is 2 periods all year. The only 1 period AP science class that is offered at our school is AP Physics C.

[Anonymous]

2 freshman
1 10th (was not able to do more due to grad requirements)
3junior
5 senior

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot will depend on course taken in prior years. Should aim for 10 or more with at least 2 AP lab sciences.

Stop making things up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 sophomore
3 junior
4 senior

Our private limits APs- you need prerequisites to get into them and none freshmen year.

Honors level courses are offered all years and are tough.

Smart school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the flailing around trying to get students’ profiles to be razor sharp is for a tiny % of the colleges in the country. The vast majority—including some schools everybody has heard of—would be just fine with a kid taking 2 APs senior year.

Please name a few of these colleges. I don't know of any that my junior is considering that would be OK with what you describe.

Ole Miss. Univ of Arkansas. ODU. Basically any school with higher than an 80% acceptance rate.

You don’t have to go down South. There are plenty of schools without rigid requirements like 4 APs not 2 APs. I think a reason some of these kids with high stats are being rejected, even at public schools, is because there are far more interesting candidates. If everyone has the same APs, same GPA, same SATs then they need to get more into what kind of person is the applicant.

I don’t know but maybe they can see right through the applications where the parents orchestrated their child’s whole life and the child went along with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the flailing around trying to get students’ profiles to be razor sharp is for a tiny % of the colleges in the country. The vast majority—including some schools everybody has heard of—would be just fine with a kid taking 2 APs senior year.

Please name a few of these colleges. I don't know of any that my junior is considering that would be OK with what you describe.

Ole Miss. Univ of Arkansas. ODU. Basically any school with higher than an 80% acceptance rate.

You don’t have to go down South. There are plenty of schools without rigid requirements like 4 APs not 2 APs. I think a reason some of these kids with high stats are being rejected, even at public schools, is because there are far more interesting candidates. If everyone has the same APs, same GPA, same SATs then they need to get more into what kind of person is the applicant.

I don’t know but maybe they can see right through the applications where the parents orchestrated their child’s whole life and the child went along with it.

You’d assume that because you prob don’t have a self driven child . Not all kids are getting courted by helicopter parents. I hate to break it to you but there ARE kids who actually love to learn and love challenges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the flailing around trying to get students’ profiles to be razor sharp is for a tiny % of the colleges in the country. The vast majority—including some schools everybody has heard of—would be just fine with a kid taking 2 APs senior year.

Please name a few of these colleges. I don't know of any that my junior is considering that would be OK with what you describe.

You & junior probably think only the top 1 or 2% of colleges are worth a look. You’re missing a lot of options that don’t have the high cost, pressure, or insanity of the usual suspects in the northeast.

Thse options also don't have the employment prospects of those schools.

Many people have an inflated opinion of how much better the employment prospects are at the “better” schools. I’m not recommending Southwest Panhandle For-profit Institute, but solid educations & jobs can be attained via many schools that are not difficult to get into, & are ranked lower than 100 among US News national universities & liberal arts colleges.