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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Call me crazy, but personally, I think schools see kids with 15 APs (all 5s) and think "she'll graduate early so that's a year less of tuition."  It's a business. [/quote]

Hmm, this does make quite a bit of sense. I actually thought that all her APs would give her a boost, especially with her scores.[/quote]

I can attest to that. Last year, one girl from our school got into Princeton who took AP Physics in 12th grade, and two boys were rejected who completed AP Physics C in 9th and 10th grade with 5s in both. The boys were more cracked in other subjects, too. So, what you're saying about having strong APs as a disadvantage is making sense.[/quote]

“You’ve got to guess how many APs are enough to make you look strong but you can’t have too many” is a whole new level of stupid.[/quote]

You aren't thinking about it correctly. Core courses Math, English, History, Science, Language. Plan on [b]ALWAYS taking the highest level course available to you[/b] every semester, every year including senior year. That is the requirement for top schools period. MIT AOs freely tell you this. Beyond this it doesn't really matter, below this you are hurting your 'rigor'.

What this means is school dependent and AOs will determine if you met 'highest rigor' based on your schools profile.[/quote]

A lot of colleges say that they allow the HS counselors to determine rigor. Our HS counselors will tell you if your schedule counts as "highest rigor" or not. [/quote]

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