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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

DP here. 10 AP courses under the belt is fairly common  for students in my DC's magnet public school (Poolesville High School).  I think it is also common for students in Blair, RMIB, Centennial and Riverside in MD.  I am sure that these are not unheard of in W schools either.  Students who are in IB schools, many a times, double up on both IB and AP.[/quote]

[b]Define "fairly common" in the non-magnet school context[/b].  Give specifics.

Poster after poster offering fluff as gospel.[/quote]

I am sure there are some high achiever Asian-American students even in non-magnet schools. Fairly common amongst them. Specifically, if a student is also a NMS semifinalist, then probably between 5-10 AP exams before senior year. [/quote]

What's with the specification of Asian-American students only? High achievers of all backgrounds take advantage of the opportunities presented to them.[/quote]

I was wondering the same. So many assumptions there.  Also, the assumption that students in magnets like Blair and RMIB would take more APs. Actually, they's likely take less. My Blair student was not allowed to take an APs as a freshman and takes a lot of magnet classes that are considered the equivalent of APs but have more depth on certain topics. She took AP BS as a Soph, so her math classes as a Jr and Sr are not AP but clearly rigorous. Because these programs offer there own rigorous courses, students may take fewer APs.[/quote]

Woops, I meant AP BC as a soph.  I'm sure there are some AP BS classes out there, though![/quote]

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