<p>Will it be particularly difficult taking them at the same time? I’ve heard you need to know some AB concepts to do well in Physics C at the beginning.
I don’t have infinite time to study either because I’m planning on taking 6 more AP tests in the same year (Eng Lang, Econ, Enviro, Comp Sci, CoPo, Stats)</p>
<p>How hard will it be? And should I drop an AP because of it?</p>
<p>The calc stuff in Physics C isn’t too advanced. You will need to read ahead in your calc textbook though, but it’s just simple derivatives and integrals. The tricky part is actually knowing what to do with those derivatives and integrals.</p>
<p>Also I would recommend you drop one or more of your APs. I’m the only one at my school who was ever able to pull off that level of studying in 50 years (10 APs), and time management will be very difficult. You don’t want to be in the position where you’re trying to study for all of them and fail to do well on any.</p>
<p>Okay I might just “self-study” them both in the beginning.</p>
<p>I’m contemplating dropping Comparative or Statistics, which one do you think has more weight/importance in college admissions?</p>
<p>AP exams have almost 0 weight on college admissions in most cases, tbh.
Take the exams only for AP credit/if you want to.</p>
<p>I am finishing AP Calculus AB and Physics C: Mechanics concurrently right now, and I was fine. Like chilldude said, the use of calculus in AP Physics isn’t intensive, it’s elementary derivatives and integrals. You won’t really need AP Physics to do AP Calculus, it’s really just the other way around.</p>
<p>just learn basic differentiation before starting physics. later on, you might need to self study basic integration as well before getting to it in calc, but it’s not a big deal. they’re pretty easy things to learn.
but you should really drop a few of those APs. 8 in one year is a bit overboard</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! I’ve decided to drop Comparative until later on.</p>