Anonymous
08/22/2025 04:35
Subject: Which APs most important for "most rigorous"
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:IDEALLY the following
AP Bio, Chem, Physics
AP FL
AP Lit and Lang
AP Histories - Euro / World / US
AP Econ
and then anything else you can throw into the mix
AP Music / Art / further FL's etc
You need at least AP Calc AB on the list.
You're right ! I missed out Math completely, by mistake.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 23:44
Subject: Which APs most important for "most rigorous"
It is school dependent. It matters what is taken in context of the hardest path offered.
Over 10% of our private take ALL of these :
AP physics 1, AP physics C,
AP Chem, calcBC(1/3 of the graduates take it 11 or 12th) APpush(half the school)
AP English lang and lit (over half the school does these two) AP foreign language
Plus 2-3 random ones such as bio, econ or gov
About half of them get in to ivies unhooked and the others usually end up at T20ish inless they have a lot of Bs and are not in the top 1/3 GPA -wise
Over 10% of our private take ALL of these :
AP physics 1, AP physics C,
AP Chem, calcBC(1/3 of the graduates take it 11 or 12th) APpush(half the school)
AP English lang and lit (over half the school does these two) AP foreign language
Plus 2-3 random ones such as bio, econ or gov
About half of them get in to ivies unhooked and the others usually end up at T20ish inless they have a lot of Bs and are not in the top 1/3 GPA -wise
Anonymous
08/21/2025 21:56
Subject: Which APs most important for "most rigorous"
How about taking the exams and reporting the scores? Did your successful kids take all the exams? Did the report only 5s or 4s as well?