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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find this chart (see link below) from the link posted above VERY enlightening. It gives total number of APs and # of students reporting to the top 200 univ/colleges.  Depending on the school, I am thinking about what the average number of tests per kids must be since we all know in this area there is a pretty large group of AP-crazed kids reporting 6-8 or more exams. If so, then many other students are reporting just 1-2 AP exam scores to many of these schools (I'm just looking at the large public Us at the top of the list.  UVA trends a bit higher. Even MIT isn't as high as I would expect. I realize plenty of prep school kids don't often take APs or self-study for them but still, these numbers are lower than I'd imagined.

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/2013-200-Top-Colleges.pdf
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That is very interesting but has some limitations. First, kids are probably only reporting scores of 4 or 5 (or whatever qualifies for credit). Mine didn't report a score of 4 because the school would only accept a 5 for that particular exam. So kids are probably taking more than they are reporting.

Some schools (not in this area of course) actually offer very few APs. I looked at one small town high school recently that offered 5-6 APs (depending on the availability of qualified teachers). If you weren't interested in all the topics you probably would only end up taking 2-3.[/quote]

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