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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, taking 5+ APs is a bit crazy IMO. Your kid can get into T30-T50 schools with those scores, it is possible. But you need to consider them reaches and have good targets and safeties as well.

My own DC took 4Aps junior year and 4 APs senior year. All STEM except AP Psych. I suspect taking AP ENG/APUSH/APEuro might have strengthened her resume for T20 schools, but not by much (she had SAT of 1500 and 3.95 UW gpa and engineering major). I'm with you, that more than 4 APs puts too much pressure on most kids and doesn't allow them time to do other stuff. For some kids, more than 2 is too many and that's ok. These are college level work and the kids are in HS![quote][/quote]

These are great stats.   It's crazy that this isn't top 20 materials.   Just nuts..[/quote]

Yes it's nuts.  But there is a partial explanation.  Check out how the SAT board "normalized" the scores in 1996.  
So comparing pre-1995 scores to 1996+ scores alone is interesting.  
Say you (or any of us parents) in late 1980/early 1990s got a 1350 SAT (700M+750 Verbal)  
as of 1996 that would be 690 Math and 760 Verbal for 1450 SAT.  That's 100 points just from the normalizing.  
Add in that in mid 1990s, most students took the test 1-2 times, without much test prep.  So if you were to locate the percentiles (which I cannot find currently), I suspect 1450 in 1995 was much higher percentile than it is in 2021.  
I simply don't recall tons of people having perfect SAT scores or anything close to that--and I attended a T10 school that currently has an acceptance rate below 7%. Without all the prep work and taking the SAT 5+ times, we had a more accurate score of the students and there simply were not as may students at the "top" scores.  In early 1990s, anything over 1300 was really, really good.  Break 1400 and you were the golden child.  Not many kids got over 1500.

So simply put, with that many students scoring so high and with it being so simple to apply to many more colleges (common app, ability to research stuff online, not have to send a letter requesting info on a school, etc), most T50 schools could fill 3x their incoming freshman class with kids over 1450 and with WGPA over 4.2.

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