Reply to # of AP courses total?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "# of AP courses total?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]HI.   The counselor at our "W" school emphasized only taking AP Courses in areas in which you excelled...for my daughter that wound up to be the liberal arts.   She has taken honors courses in sciences and math, but not AP.   Next year she will take, AP Environmental.   She will finish up with 7 total AP Courses.   She has already received a score of "5" on her AP NSL test ,and is studying for Lang and lit and World now...hopefully 4s or 5s.

She often tells me that she sees her classmates taking 4 and 5 AP's during the junior year and how very stressed out they all are.   it sounds awful and unhealthy to us, so as her parents, we never advocated this much stress for her.   She doesn't like it and collapses under that sort of stress.

We recently met with an independent college consultant who told us she had not taken enough "rigorous courses" to apply to top tier schools. (not Ivy Leagues) Of course, DD came away upset and felt a bit led astray by the school guidance counselor, who really didn't recommend 4 to 5 AP's a year.

DD has hopes of being accepted to public ivys, but I don't even know if this is possible given her 1400 SAT and 'only' 7 AP courses.

Talk to me!  Tell me your experience with number of AP courses!   I know it is all a crap shoot these days.

Thank you.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics