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Take my Crimson Education alumni Tristan Pang, for example. He finished the equivalent of his high school–level math courses at the age of 13. He's smart but perhaps his best advantage was he just started earlier and ignored the guidelines as to what age you can do what.

Taking 20 APs sounds difficult, but if you space that over five years rather than two years, you can achieve many more subjects, stagger out the stress and the pressure, and make time for re-sits, more exam sittings, and, importantly, fun.

All that said, as far as the strategy goes, there is one incredibly important thing you need to remember. Quality comes first, then quantity.

I took 10 A Levels, but if I would have completed them all with Bs and Cs, that would have been terrible. With AP subjects, anything below a 4 is not acceptable. You first need to make sure you can nail a given subject. Once you have achieved 4/5 in the AP, or a similar standing in honors classes, then you can take additional subjects. I'd rather have 10 AP courses with top grades than 20 with bad. This is because you need to show mastery in the subjects you take.