<p>Hello, i will be junior next year. Actually i just came here in usa 7 months ago from bangladesh. I even didnt know what an ap is when i came here. So i couldnt apply for an ap and when i came to know i couldnt take ap class. But there was too much pressure of education there in my country. For example, i think i am not student here. I dont have a little bit pressure (without APs) here. I said the intro just to inform if i can take the pressure of APs.</p>
<p>I planned to take:
AP English 3
AP Physics B
AP US History
AP Calc BC</p>
<p>As i am new here, should i skip AP English? I am not bad in English. And i have pre calc honors now. Should i take AP calc AB before BC? My classmates went mad why i am taking AB before BC.. They are saying I cant handle this.</p>
<p>CALC AB is usually harder than BC so if you think you’re ready to handle it go for it (it kind of also depends on what you want to major in when you go to college). All those classes seem fine and I encourage you to take them. Make sure, however, that you have to pay (I’m fairly certain) $100 dollars each AP test at the end of the semester. So if those were all your AP classes and you took every test, you would end up paying $400.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this is what you’re thinking about, but the AP Calculus BC exam has a high pass rate (79.8% last year) compared to Calculus AB (59.3%) primarily because it’s self-selecting. People who might be at risk of failing the test aren’t usually inclined to take the class.</p>
<p>If you do well in Mathematics, then by all means, for for Calculus BC. Calculus BC is harder than AB. There is no doubt about that. The difference is that BC goes into more detail than AB. Take what you think you can handle, because failing will not help you.</p>
<p>BC has a higher pass rate because of the TYPE of student it attracts.</p>
<p>Ask your classmates about the classes for your specific school. Most schools have a very personal version of their AP’s due to the way the teacher teaches. However, don’t be discouraged if they say this is too much. Some people just aren’t high achievers and think that anything past the basic load is crazy.</p>
<p>Your written English is not very good in your post. I understand that an internet post isn’t formal writing, but I suggest you talk to the AP English teacher about the class and your level of fluency in English, and perhaps give him/her a sample of the writing you’ve done for your English classes this year. Also keep in mind that on class exams and on the AP exam you will not be able to use a word processor to correct spelling and grammar. </p>
<p>The other classes seem fine. Talk to your counselor or the calculus teacher about the AB vs. BC question. Some schools require AB first and these schools may not teach the AB material in the BC class, or they may cover it very quickly as a review. It may still be possible to jump into BC but you would probably have to self-study some of the AB material over the summer. If your school allows kids to take BC without AB then they will cover everything you need and if you are a strong math student feeling like precalculus is easy then you should have no problem taking BC.</p>
<p>For the record, that’s what I meant…the people in Calculus AB are probably more likely to find the class hard than the people in Calculus BC, but that’s because they’re two different groups of people. </p>
<p>Calculus BC includes Calculus I and II while AB only includes Calculus I. The material you learn at the beginning of both classes should be the same, but BC would have to move faster so it could cover Calculus II at the end. </p>
<p>Thanks for everyone’s suggestion. I think i will take AP calc BC as i am quite good at math and want to do major in CS. And i will talk to my english teacher about ap english.</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me how many ap classes should i take for top college? I know there are also other factors like SAT, ACT, Extracurricular activities, most importantly GPA. I just want to know how many AP the top colleges admire. I have 13 ap class in my school.
Extracurricular: I play chess well. But i dont have chess club in my school. I dont know what i can do for that. And i play soccer in school but not well. I qualified for SKILLSUSA web designing contest’s state round (california) this year (it’ll be on april). I was one of the three members in general knowledge quiz team of my district in my country. And, doing community service in mosque now. What else EC can i do? Suggestions? </p>
<p>There may be some other way to play chess, like tournaments in your community. You could try to start a chess club. There is an online computer science competition. I forget the name now, but you should be able to find it. I think it has resources for learning and improving your programming as well as the competition itself. Your school may have a quiz bowl team. If not, you could try to start one. My daughter has been participating in that this year and it’s been a lot of fun for her. And she says that one of the starters on their team is muslim and I think maybe he has a foreign background, and this diversity helps the team because he just knows different things than the rest of the kids do.</p>