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[quote=Anonymous]My child at a W school took 2 APs sophomore year, 3 junior, and 5 senior (2 of the senior year ones she considered to be really interesting and not too demanding (AP environmental science and psych). She did very well in admissions as an unhooked kid (excellent test scores helped, I'm sure) and is having a great experience at an academically intense top 20 school.

I have the sense that she enjoyed her HS academic experience more than her similarly capable friends who loaded up on APs prior to senior year, because she was a better and more confident student as a senior. She spent much less time on even the tough APs she took senior year (like physics) than I think she would have had she taken the class as a sophomore or junior.  She also was on the low end of her cohort for total APs taken--some of her friends had taken 14-16 all together--but did as well as or better in admissions than many of them.  I know this is just one anecdote, but I really have not seen any admissions benefit to taking more APs earlier on. [/quote]

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