<p>I keep seeing all these posts where people have like 10 APs by senior year...and I'm just wondering how courses work at your schools. At my school, you can't take any APs freshman or sophomore year, and you can only take english, math, and foreign language honors. We have to take two semesters of the same fine art and two semesters of PE (dance, weight lifting, required frosh PE, or two years of the same varsity sport). We also have to take religion all four years (two semesters every year, except only one semester freshman year). Also, there are crazy prereqs for getting into AP classes. So how does this all work at your school?</p>
<p>we also have prereqs for AP and honors courses. Sometimes it can get pretty competitive to enter into these course as most of the courses have a preset number of sections, so basically all of the students are competing with each other. Luckily, I got into all of the courses that I wanted to take.</p>
<p>superstarr my school exacts the exact same way, this is kind of stupid though like with the competetion to get into some classes the cutoff for ap chem in my school was 17% which is insane for no reason whatsoever..... very gay taking a remedial science</p>
<p>yeah its crazy because I see people taking like 10 APs sophomore year, and we can't take any sophomore year at my school. its just weird.</p>
<p>Yeah, at my school its impossible to take AP as a freshman. Sophmores this year were the first ones able to take APs that year. Mainly, you can only start APs once you hit junior/senior year. You have to get a current teacher signature in that subject that says you're competent enough in the subject to handle AP level. Luckily though, our school figures out the amount of people who want to take AP and make it possible for all the assigned students to take that AP course.</p>
<p>In my county, I know there are freshmen taking maybe one or two AP's because they've taken the prerequisites for the AP's during the summers (like thru CTY offered by JHU). You can take AP as long as you have the credits that are required to take the AP.</p>
<p>Most people, though, start AP's sophomore year with either AP govt or sometimes AP calc.</p>
<p>At our school you don't have any AP's available to you unless you are really advanced in your language, then you can take an AP language. Sophmore year you generally take an AP Govt, class if you are going to take advanced courses in 11th and 12th grade, whether it is IB our just AP, and then sometimes AP calc. For the rest of the times as long as you fill your graduation requirement you can take as many AP classes as you want.</p>
<p>We have prereqs at my school. for people like me who took two ap classes their sophmore year, we had to take all the prereqs before the aps.</p>
<p>for the math nerds, they all took algebra in 7th grade to take calc junior year and stats sophmore year...</p>
<p>for the science people, they allready had three sciences by the end of their sophmore year(that includes me-8th grade-earth/space, 9th grade-biology, 10th grade-chemistry)...</p>
<p>for the histories, my highschool has a one year, ap accel program(like pre-ap) which gives us a class of semantics and logic, in the freshman year, which prepares us for college level work with research and historical analysis. The accel program also allows freshmen to take an advanced course in world history-a prereq for any ap histories in their sophmore year</p>
<p>TAKEN FROM MY SCHOOL INFORMATION WEBSITE...</p>
<p>The Chiles High School AP ACCEL Program is a pre-AP (Advanced Placement) program designed for qualified incoming 9 th graders. These students have accelerated options based on their high success in middle school. We look at both the FCAT reading score (or other standardized test if FCAT was not administered) as well as the student's grade point average.</p>
<pre><code> We have compressed three semester courses into one AP ACCEL course of a year in length. Students will take one semester of Personal Fitness and Life Management combined together and a second semester of Logic and Semantics, our research course. The Logic and Semantics class helps prepare students for success in their classes while learning how to do research with a historical emphasis. Students will need to take an additional semester of PE sometime before graduation to fulfill the one-year PE requirement. AP ACCEL freshmen skip the geography course and take World History instead. This puts them in line to take AP European History, their first AP course as sophomores. In addition, depending on what level they are in math, some students may be eligible to take an AP math class during their sophomore year.
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