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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn't a kid takng > 3 kinda make the school look bad? Like if they were able to take 5 AP classes and get As in all of them, the class load must not be too demanding and they're probably giving out As to everybody. I wonder how the number of AP classes correlates to the scores on AP exams. [/quote]

I think it is more to do with the fact that loading up on APs in one year shows that the kid does not know how to balance workload, cannot plan in advance and is not organized.  Not good traits for excelling in college.

Also, depends on if you have taken hard APs like Calc BC, Foreign Language or easy fludd APs  like envio or psych.  If your AP exam scores does not match your grade in the class then it is a problem.[/quote]

I bring this up because I tool AP English, AP Physics, AP Computer Science, AP Calculus and maybe AP Spanish (forget about that one). But they did NOT prepare me for college. In fact they were for the most part the same classes as the regular classes. Most of my peers (and me) got 1s on our AP exams. I had aced AP Physics and AP Calculus without knowing what a limit was or a derivative. I thought it was so foolish when I got to college. [/quote]

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