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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]A student from a high achieving HS with 20 APs who takes 3 would get a lower score than a student from a rural school that only offered 6 APs.[/quote]
Obviously. But, more commonly, [b]what about the student who takes 8 or 10 APs at a school that offers 20[/b]? That should be enough, but how does that play out when the applicant from the nearby rural county took 3 of 6 offered?[/quote]

This should be in the school profile attached to the, transcript …that most students take at least X number of the Y APs offered.

our profile notes that students are not allowed to take AP classes as freshman; sophomores are only allowed to take 1; juniors are advised to only take 2, and seniors are advised to only take 3. So for my school, 6 or 7 out of the 20+ offered is considered competitive . It is Great if a student took more, but that likely wouldn’t be considered any more favorable. It’s likely that the student that took 6 has other things in their academic file - honors classes, art, foreign language, band, yoga, etc.

Progression is key, and that the student challenged themselves. And most importantly, received A’s in the end.

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Our school limits 9th and 10th graders as well, but I think it hurts student. The other high schools in our community allow more AP classes and get pretty good admissions.  Also, our school is known to be tougher academically, and that’s not on the transcript. I don’t believe local AO know all these details about schools like they claim. [/quote]

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