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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that it is based on high school, but assuming middle to upper middle class large public, what did your rigor look like?

Currently on track to complete:

AP World History (modern), AP Euro History, AP US History, AP Government

AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics C (Mechanics), AP Comp Sci Principles

AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Stats

AP Language and Composition, AP Literature

AP Pyschology, AP Macroeconomics

We are approaching it that this is the floor to be competitive, and even if get all A's in the class, and 5's on the AP exams, that it just gets your application looked at.

We are worried that because our high school offers more AP's, including AP Computer Science A, AP Physics C-Electromagnetism, and AP's in 3 languages but because of circumstances like interest and class schedule, child won't be taking an AP language, all the hard physics classes or computer science ones, for major of something pre-med, maybe Chemicstry or Biochemistry that they will be at disadvantage.[/quote]

15 AP classes with a 4.00 unweighted GPA and a perfect wall of 5s on all 15 AP tests immediately puts your kid in a group of maybe 1,000 seniors across the entire country. Add in a perfect ACT or SAT and they’re in a select group of maybe 300 seniors.

Walk that tightrope and they’re going to get a lot more than “looked at” …[/quote]

This does not seem accurate.  There are hundreds of posts here, and on other college information type websites, with posters who have the requisite perfect 4.0 UW GPA, 15+ AP's, including Calc BC/Multivariable, the other STEM AP's, etc., and 1550+ SAT.   That seems to be the normal student applying to T20's and even T50's.[/quote]

Right, but OP only asked about rigor, which is present.  The secret sauce is the essays and how you "package" yourself, for lack of a better term.  If you're aiming high, this is the critical factor -- not the SAT/ACT scores, and not the number of APs you took.  Some kids think they're great writers and are mistaken.[/quote]

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