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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS took 7 total and is in his 2nd yr at Princeton.

What you took and why and how that impacted you is so much more important than racking up 12-13 APs.[/quote]
+1. Mine took 8, at a high school that offers many, and is at a T10.

I find this forum consistently overestimates the number of APs needed to be competitive. College admissions is not a race to the most APs.[/quote]

That’s because not all AP courses are the same difficulty. AP Calculus BC, Physics (2), Chemistry, English (2), History (2) are all 8 classes but are the most rigorous one can take.

If you’re going after the number you’ll do the easier ones like Human geography, precalculus, Calculus AB that don’t matter much.[/quote]

There is AP pre-calculus? WTF? What a joke. If I were in admissions at a top school I would immediately ding someone with this on their transcript for having the nerve to consider submitting it.[/quote]
The other side of that coin is someone saying they'd ding the applicant who didn't submit the score, under the assumption that they must have scored low.[/quote]

The fact that people are being suckered into taking an AP exam after taking pre-calc is a joke. It is a regular HS class. It is not "AP." Are we going to start having AP Finger Painting for kids in nursery school? An AP exam is theoretically meant to demonstrate mastery of college level work. Pre-calc is not college level. It is a pre-req for college level. I know that most of our discussions here are about top schools for which many kids take calc in HS, but even very average students take pre-calc in HS.[/quote]
I understand that it is not a college level course. Are you saying you'd have your kid skip the AP precalc exam?

Mine submitted his AP precalc score (5), along with his other AP scores, and is now at a T10. Didn't seem to hurt him to submit.[/quote]

NP. Of course it didn’t hurt to submit it. The PP’s take on this is idiotic.

Re:  the OP— my kid took 3 in 10th, currently taking 5 in 11th, and plans to take 3-4 senior year. So I guess 11 or 12, if all goes as planned. [/quote]

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