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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges really want you to take AP classes if they're offered at your school and get good grades in them.  And it certainly doesn't hurt if you also do really well on the AP exams themselves and let colleges know your scores.

The overwhelming majority of colleges will tell you, though, the scores themselves have little or no impact on college admissions.  And how could they, anyway?  Most students will have taken half or more of their AP classes in the senior year, and won't have scores on any of those exams until well after they've already been admitted to college.     [/quote]

No true. Colleges want you to take the highest level courses you're capable of being successful in (A or B grade usually), and would wonder why you're taking AP classes if you're getting a C or below a 3 on the exam. And in some high schools, the most advanced kids have already taken 5-10 AP classes by the end of 11th grade. Colleges will absolutely be interested in how well students do on those exams.[/quote]

What's your source?[/quote]

15 years of college counseling in a high school with many very high-achieving students.[/quote]

Ok, great, so you can name specific colleges and what their policies were/are and give us real, helpful and concrete examples.  Go for it.  We're all ears.

Oh, and while you're at it, where are these high school where kids have 10 AP classes under their belt [i]before[/i] their senior year?  Can you rattle of a few?  That would be great, too.

Thanks.[/quote]

Your first request is nonsensical and unnecessary. Colleges don't have policies for what levels high school students should take. But if you're a school counselor and ask them privately because you want to get answers for your students who want to know, they'll tell you their opinions. I don't know that they'd be so forthcoming with applicants/parents, because they don't want to be quoted on something that might upset some people for whatever reason.

Your second request can't serve any purpose that I can see, so I suspect you're just trying to impress everyone with your snarkiness. Take a look at the course catalogue of any high-achieving high school yourself and you'll be able to verify that their are many AP courses open to kids in grades 9-11. And each of those schools will have many students taking advantage of that.

You're welcome.[/quote]

You've given a non-answer, just as I expected you would.

We're not talking about "what levels high school students should take."  We're talking specifically about the weight that colleges attach to AP [i]exam scores[/i] in the admissions process.

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But you started the conversation about what levels students should take by saying "Colleges really want you to take AP classes if they're offered at your school and get good grades in them".

No college is going to specify a weight they attach to AP classes or exam scores, because there are too many schools that don't even offer AP or that limit how many you take. With over 20,000 high schools in the country, it would be foolish to give a specific weight. You can get some idea of what they value from which courses they'll give college credit for, though. And if you have taken the classes before they make a decision, they will definitely be interested in how you did. It wouldn't make sense not to take interest in a student who scored 4 or 5 on 10 AP exams before senior year.

I'm not speculating here. Like I said before, this comes from many years of asking college reps about this.[/quote]

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