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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that APs are not offered at any private schools but I hear all the time that students take them privately. My child wants to take 2-3 in total  but a friend’s son took 7 AP exams privately (over 4 years of HS) and got into one of the HPY. Same HS as our DC. If one is looking to get into competitive Ivy Leagues with all other factors in place (High GPA, SAT scores, robust activities etc.,). What is a good and reasonable number of APs to take?

Or are their parents here that can share that their DC took NO AP exams privately and their DC still got into a top school in the last 3 years? (Not a sport recruit)

Just trying to figure out whether we encourage our DC to take more AP, a few, or none.

Thank you for sharing.

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Not sure where you are hearing they are not offered at any private schools. They are offered at the Cathedral Schools. [/quote]

I will add though they don’t offer all AP classes. For example AP American history is not offered at STA. Many kids had a 90 or 95 in the class and then took the AP exam and bombed it. They don’t have time to study for the exam with spring sports and a 12 page history paper due at the same time and all of the SAT and ACT prep they’re trying to fit in. There’s no time so they take the class and many of them bombed the exam and that’s that.

GPAs and lack of APs can hurt college application especially for certain schools which do have a cut off.

Many STA families are not happy with their college options and feel their sons were encouraged to settle for colleges much lower than they could have been accepted to. For SOME students not all it felt like there was no guidance to reach higher.[/quote]

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