<p>Are any math and science courses in the Ontario curriculum (U level) very similar/comparable to AP?</p>
<p>I'm talking about Chem, Bio, Physics, Advanced Functions, Calc & Vectors, and Data.</p>
<p>If you can teach yourself integration then you could write Calc AB but I wouldn’t recommend it. I wrote AP stats having taken data it was not fun. AP Physics covers a lot of stuff that isn’t in U physics, it also wasn’t fun to write. I also wrote AP chem with U chem, it was very unfun, but I learned a lot of the stuff that was on it after I wrote the AP so if you took U chem first semester I would recommend writing it. Really the only course in ontario that I felt really prepared me well for the AP exam was U Econ for AP Micro. Hope this helps! There’s no harm in trying, worse case you don’t get your scores sent.</p>
<p>^I’m not planning on writing AP tests. I am just curious as to how far behind I’d be when I go to the states.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Ontario courses, but AP classes in the US vary a great deal in rigor and breadth. Also, they don’t all do a sterling job of preparing for the exams in May, which is why the prep book market is so large.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I do know some people from Canada - albeit mostly Albertans - who moved to the US during high school and performed well in AP-level courses.</p>
<p>Probably pretty far behind in Math, but not in sciences.</p>
<p>well I came down here with no AP classes, and idk I’m a whole year behind a lot of people in math. In terms of sciences I’m a bit behind but nowhere near as far.</p>
<p>They’re not comparable at all.</p>
<p>I’m just finished a chemistry class where almost everyone in it had a 5 on the AP or a 750+ on the SAT Subject Test (I got a 780) and I went into the final above the average. The curriculum for AP vs. 4U Chemistry isn’t that different. However, my class also had a lot of physics concepts in it and I had an excellent physics teacher in high school, unlike a lot of my classmates who didn’t have as strong of a background in it.</p>
<p>Sciences shouldn’t be much of an issue, but (and we’ve talked about this before) you’ll probably have to take what’s basically remedial math.</p>