Is National AP Scholar impressive for top 20 schools? DS will have taken 17 APs by graduation

[Anonymous]

5 or 4 on all of them.

[Anonymous]

What school allows 17 APs?

[Anonymous]

I won't mention but it's public

[Anonymous]

That doesn't sound appropriate.

[Anonymous]

No not very impressive.

[Anonymous]

My DC was an AP Scholar with only 10 APs. I don't think the designation matters at all (certainly didn't for my DC because he didn't get it until after graduation, maybe yours will have met the criteria by the end of junior year).

I think 17 risks being seen as a too strivery. Hopefully he's got passions outside of taking AP classes.

[Anonymous]

op-yes he got the designation by end of junior year. Yes he's an accomplished musician

[Anonymous]

Probably more impressive to/useful for public flagships. T20 privates don’t think APs = college level work. In some ways and in some fields, they’re actually counter-productive because profs have to break kids of the bad habits AP rewards (eg trite, superficial, formulaic writing).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:op-yes he got the designation by end of junior year. Yes he's an accomplished musician

Is he/she also playing in the HYP orchestra as a ringer?

Anyway, I think 17 is going to be seen as over the top.

[Anonymous]

Are you sincerely wondering this?

If he also has a great personality and some leadership skills, he's likely in the pool of hundreds of also great candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I won't mention but it's public

Taking 17 Ap's is impressive. Heck, I'm impressed. Is it enough to get in ... depends on what grades, test scores, etc. are. But yes, op. It is impressive. Congrats to your child!

[Anonymous]

AP exam scores are not a factor in college admissions, not even at public flagships. They are only a factor in college credits. My kids never submitted or revealed a single score on an AP exam to the colleges that they applied to, and they all got into top ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I won't mention but it's public

Taking 17 Ap's is impressive. Heck, I'm impressed. Is it enough to get in ... depends on what grades, test scores, etc. are. But yes, op. It is impressive. Congrats to your child!

+1 it’s impressive.

[Anonymous]

My son got it with only 5. I thought it was meaningless. 17 APs on your transcript is not meaningless however.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, sounds excessive and honestly, not worth the colleges time. They won't make a lot of money off of him. Colleges want $$$$