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[quote=Anonymous]Admissions officers will evaluate a student within the context of their school - what is offered, what the student took, how that compares with their peer group at that particular high school, how they performed.   As others have said, that is more important than a particular number of APs taken.   If their peer group tends to take 6 total in HS, or 12, that’s good information, for your DC to decide what they can handle and if not, adjust expectations (good for all of us to do).
When they get to college, they will meet tons of kids like them, equally smart and accomplished, but with a different kind of transcript, some took tons of APs, some not.  All at the same college and fit there.  
And yes for sure, having been thru the past two cycles,  this is the way it is for the foreseeable future.  
Best way to beat the stress on your DC is to, as you are doing, be thoughtful about class selection, and EC’s, writing a solid essay and supplementals that tell their story, have good rapport with teachers who will write the recs, provide a great brag sheet that the guidance counselor can cut and paste from (esp if you are a large public), and be brutally honest and realistic when developing a list of reaches, targets, likelies.   Visit targets and likelies bc the reaches are lotteries for all.  Get excited about those.  
Good luck![/quote]

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