<p>How many of ya'll have "diverse" AP/Honors classes?</p>
<p>You mean diverse by skin colour or diverse by background?</p>
<p>I live in a really homogenous area of all kinds. With the exception of me, all of the AP students are my old high school were middle class, white, mostly female, etc.</p>
<p>^ It’s rather odd that gender is part of the homogeneity of your reigion.</p>
<p>^My AP Chem class has 1 guy. Two if you count the teacher. We used to have another one (who barely counted, considering that his voice hadn’t changed yet and he was more high pitched than all of us girls) but he left us for the other bell.
But my school has way more girls than guys anyway. Only physics (Both B&C) and BC calc have a low girl:guy ratio.</p>
<p>All of my AP classes are very white except for one. For some reason, probably because it covers Africa and for other ones that will make me sound mean, it’s nearly all black. Certain classes are very girly, but mostly the ones you would expect, like Art History.
I don’t know about socio-economic status as much in AP, but in Honors, which are three bells of advanced 8th and 9th grade classes for the top 25% or so of those grades, pretty much everyone was middle to upper middle class, and some of us were disgustingly rich. It only became really obvious after we all returned with the same Christmas and Hanukkah presents (my school and city are pretty Jewish. We do nothing in class on the High Holy Days and my house has a mezuzah on it) after break.</p>
<p>At the school where I took AP Chem there was one black girl, one asian guy, 2 or 3 white girls, and 4 or 5 white guys taking the exam IIRC.</p>
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<p>Thats not part of the homogeniety of my region, just my AP classes. I should have been more clear. My area is very white, lower-middle class or working class (with a selection of wealthier people who have second homes here), generally uneducated, etc. My AP classes were comprised of the middle and upper middle class students, mostly girls, all white but me and two Asians (the only two Asians in the school of 1500), etc.</p>
<p>In middle school, we had two Gifted classes, with about 15-20 in each. Guess who was the only black person one year?</p>
<p>our AP is very diverse.</p>
<p>^^My 6th grade gifted class was, like, the blackest advanced class in which I have ever been. There was a black guy, a black girl (moi!), a girl who was black and white, and a white girl. The boy got to be in our class even though he was a year younger. I feel like we didn’t like him, but maybe that was just because we three girls were friends and he wasn’t part of that group.</p>
<p>More males than females in every AP class I have, 1/3 Indian, 1/4 East Asian, 1/4 white, and 1/6 Other (black, hispanic, mixed - also the 1 native american in our school is in all AP)</p>
<p>My AP classes are almost all white with some Asians, very few Hispanics, and maybe 0-2 blacks. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a class with more than 2 black people at my school. Everyone tends to be upper-middle class. The school is a pretty homogeneous suburban school, so that’s probably to be expected. The English AP classes tend to have more girls, but otherwise it’s pretty even with regards to gender.</p>
<p>I’m always the only black kid in my honors classes. Sometimes there’s another one[that’s also black]…which would make it at least 2 on average…</p>
<p>Let’s see, my one AP for this year is 25 white kids, a lebanese kid, 2 asians, and a french/russian girl (white).</p>
<p>Pretty diverse actually.</p>
<p>Although scarcity of white people. And no black or Hispanic people.</p>
<p>But no odd girl:guy ratios.</p>
<p>So meadow and Matt have classes with NO black people. Wow.</p>
<p>I don’t know very many black people. Wait, I think there’s one random one in my CompSci class. So I know one. But he kind of acts silly on purpose.</p>
<p>Wow. That’s really interesting.</p>
<p>My community is pretty white, so more white people in my classes.</p>
<p>More girls than guys except for AP Chem and the Physics one.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed the guys outnumber the girls in Honors/AP math and science classes.</p>