AP data

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So I was curious about what are the most and least taken APs.
I managed to find the data on collegeboard.com, and thought it was interesting.
<a href="http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/Program-Summary-Report-2013.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/Program-Summary-Report-2013.pdf&lt;/a>
I was surprised that Language and Composition is the most taken AP exam, as it isn't even offered at my school. </p>

<p>Here are the total number of each exam taken, sorted.
2013 TOTAL </p>

<p>ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMP. 476,277
U.S. HISTORY 442,890
ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMP. 385,576
CALCULUS AB 282,814
GOVT. & POL. - U.S. 255,758
PSYCHOLOGY 238,962
WORLD HISTORY 230,107
BIOLOGY 203,189
STATISTICS 169,508
CHEMISTRY 140,006
SPANISH LANGUAGE 135,259
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 118,288
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 114,361
EUROPEAN HISTORY 109,878
MACROECONOMICS 108,219
CALCULUS BC 104,483
PHYSICS B 89,263
MICROECONOMICS 67,505
PHYSICS C - MECH 42,858
COMPUTER SCIENCE A 31,117
STUDIO ART - 2-D DESIGN 24,928
ART HISTORY 22,723
FRENCH LANGUAGE & CULTURE 20,725
GOVT. & POL. - COMP. 20,317
PHYSICS C - E&M 19,380
SPANISH LITERATURE 18,785
MUSIC THEORY 18,192
STUDIO ART - DRAWING 16,597
CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE 10,121
LATIN - VERGIL 6,667
GERMAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE 4,966
STUDIO ART - 3-D DESIGN 4,167
JAPANESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE 2,234
ITALIAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE 1,980</p>

<p>What do you think of it?</p>

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<p>It’s mostly just based on what high schools offer, but I’m surprised that Macroeconomics has so many more takers than Microeconomics.</p>

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<p>Rather surprised Calc AB is so popular. Only about 30 (out of 160) kids per class take it in my school, and the vast majority (25-27) take it for CC credit rather than AP test. </p>

<p>I’m also surprised they still offer Italian, Japanese, 3D Art, and German (maybe Latin as well) with so few test takers.</p>

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<p>

That’s true for the most part, though the list based on number of schools that offer it is slightly different: </p>

<p>CALCULUS AB 13,559
ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMP. 13,497
U.S. HISTORY 12,176
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMP. 11,407
BIOLOGY 10,161
CHEMISTRY 8,444
GOVT. & POL. - U.S. 8,193
STATISTICS 7,357
SPANISH LANGUAGE 7,310
PSYCHOLOGY 6,924
CALCULUS BC 6,386
WORLD HISTORY 5,783
PHYSICS B 5,654
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 4,896
EUROPEAN HISTORY 4,700
MACROECONOMICS 4,359
STUDIO ART - 2-D DESIGN 3,923
PHYSICS C - MECH 3,714
MICROECONOMICS 3,569
STUDIO ART - DRAWING 3,446
FRENCH LANGUAGE & CULTURE 3,280
COMPUTER SCIENCE A 3,249
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 3,049
MUSIC THEORY 2,945
PHYSICS C - E&M 2,190
ART HISTORY 1,912
SPANISH LITERATURE 1,602
CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE 1,460
STUDIO ART - 3-D DESIGN 1,344
GOVT. & POL. - COMP. 1,229
GERMAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE 1,200
LATIN - VERGIL 1,104
JAPANESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE 610
ITALIAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE 339</p>

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<p>That’s a pretty accurate snapshot of the number of kids in those APs (at least those that are offered) in my school.</p>

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<p>I’m surprised Chemistry and Biology AP’s are so popular.</p>