studying abroad, for one semester Options

[pink.x.r0se]

so i'm studying in a different country for half the school year next year (my junior year), so i can't take any ap's. my guidance counselor told me that that's okay, and that going to study abroad will look so much better in my college search (i want to get into a really good college, preferably ivy league). However, my friend is insisting to me that i basically won't get into college because of lack of ap's.
what do you think?

-edit-
i've taken two ap's from freshman/sophomore year, and am planning to just take more senior year

[Just_Dream]

^ Well, things might be different now. I know that recently more and more classes at my high school give GPA boosts on the 5.00 weightedscale instead of 4.00 scale. This includes honor classes. But the only two classes that I know that I could have taken if I was a sophomore is AP Spanish, AP European History or AP World History. I didn't take Spanish because I was a year behind in Spanish, so I took my third year of spanish my sophomore year, but my friend took AP Spanish (4th year of spanish) during her sophomore year.

As for AP European History - only students in a seminar program (20 students) were allowed to take it during their sophomore year. AP World History was offered when I was a Junior, but by then I was taking APUSH and I took honors world history during my sophomore year. So I couldn't go back and take that AP World History class. :[

[*paperplane*]

^ Well, things might be different now. I know that recently more and more classes at my high school give GPA boosts on the 5.00 weightedscale instead of 4.00 scale. This includes honor classes. But the only two classes that I know that I could have taken if I was a sophomore is AP Spanish, AP European History or AP World History. I didn't take Spanish because I was a year behind in Spanish, so I took my third year of spanish my sophomore year, but my friend took AP Spanish (4th year of spanish) during her sophomore year.

As for AP European History - only students in a seminar program (20 students) were allowed to take it during their sophomore year. AP World History was offered when I was a Junior, but by then I was taking APUSH and I took honors world history during my sophomore year. So I couldn't go back and take that AP World History class. :[

That seems silly, because most schools are just going to recalculate the GPA anyway and disregard weighting for honors classes. I would have actually had a really good GPA if we weighted those, because that was the lowest level class I ever too. We were still technically on a 4.0 scale, it was just possible to get over a 4.0; it didn't raise the limit to 4.5 or 5.0

I couldn't go back to AP world either, and had to take APUSH as a junior. It was okay, though, because I just took the pre-IB world history class (usually for freshman) as a sophomore as gifted world history; that actually worked out well, because my class was tiny and fun.