<p>Should I take AP Courses online, or Classes at my local community college? </p>
<p>This is what I'm considering for my 10th grade year...</p>
<p>It would be possible to take the following online AP courses:
AP Euro
AP Gov politics US
AP Gov politics US and Comparative
AP Human Geography
AP Physics B
AP Psychology
AP Stats
AP Cal AB or BC
AP CS A Or AB
AP World History
AP Eng Language and composition</p>
<p>It is also possible for me to have college courses and AP Courses...
Here are some factors:
I don't want to be considered a "full time student" next year... which I believe is 16+ credit hours...
I already plan to take Cal BC online next year...</p>
<p>I have heard Community college courses are easier... </p>
<p>AP Courses are weighted 6.0w/4.0un quality points for 96+
Community college courses are 5.0w/4.0un quality points for 90+ </p>
<p>How many AP courses can you take before you die? lol </p>
<p>all of that online? hmm if you're EXTREMELY motivated to do well it might be a possibility.
FYI, You don't need to take 2352985723 AP courses to get into good colleges.</p>
<p>lol I don't plan to take it all... I'm just stating what my choices are.... </p>
<p>There was a Girl In my APAH class that was planning to take 9 APs plus 2 honors language courses... she dropped at least APAH within the first week</p>
<p>also realize that unless you highly motivated you will get bored of sitting in front of a computer screen. personally i would just take 3 or 4 aps and supplement with college courses. or if your school is known to have a crappy teacher for one of the aps go collge</p>
<p>also for a sophmore 4 is usually the killing point. unless youve taken some freshman year then try 5. aps honestly are that serious. if you leave high school with like 10 plus aps your good.</p>
<p>Knight: Online via North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) </p>
<p>panic: The AP courses are all online... my school doesn't offer any... but I can see if I can get some information about the teachers... </p>
<p>I'm currently taking AP Art History during my Freshman year... so I'm currently experiencing what it is like to take a hard course in something you could care less about. </p>
<p>I'll look through the College Course booklet and depending on what I find interesting will probably effect what I take...</p>
<p>I'll probably have that tomorrow... or maybe tonight.
I believe I 4 may be good... </p>
<p>So far... AP Calculus BC (Instructor is based at NCSSM and I know a friend taking it this year).... AP Psychology (My mom taught psych in college, and I read the textbook for this course two years ago), AP Statistics,</p>
<p>As for the 4th... I'm not sure....</p>
<p>This may help.... I'm planning to apply to NCSSM... so I don't know if that has any effect on what I should take... </p>
<p>I have found that all the college courses (from an above average cc), have been a lot easier than my AP classes, but as yours are online, I'm not sure how the workload would be. My best advice would be to only take as much as you can handle. As a sophomore who takes 3 APs and took two college courses last semester, it can be pretty draining when you have a 5,000 word paper due, an AP chem test, and city college finals. I overloaded myself a little bit, but, mostly due to procrastination, I'm now facing a probable B or C in one of the cc classes that should have been an easy A. So, refrain from killing yourself, is my best advice.</p>
<p>I applied to NCSSM when I was a sophomore (the only year you can apply there) and I didn't get in. I was very surprised that I didn't because I was valedictorian, so I just assumed I would be a shoe-in. Apparently I was wrong.
I had pretty decent SAT scores for a sophomore, but my EC's were weak and that was what killed me I think. All of my teachers and family/friends were so upset. But hey, I am stuck in a s***** school but I am making the most out of my education. [/end rant]</p>
<p>Good luck for when you do apply next year; just make sure you don't make my mistake and focus solely on academics. You need EC's!</p>
<p>if they are all online, go for whatever you feel like you would have to take anyway. and from there classes like calc and english that are usually better with someone in person take at a community college. but history classes or social studies do online.</p>
<p>Why would you want to take AP Human Geography online? It is such an easy class; you can just self-study it, you know? I find it to be a very interesting subject, thus I am going to self-study it this year. In fact, I just ordered the Barron's book on it last night. :P</p>
<p>I'm taking six APs this year and it's slowly killing me. AP classes are more or less geared to teach you what you need to know for the test, and that means that oftentimes teachers won't get to teach you what they want to teach you. This means a lot of work that nobody, not even the teacher, wants to do.</p>
<p>You do not even need to take an AP psych course. Just buy the Barron's book and take the exam. Easy 5.</p>
<p>I would highly recommend doing the actual college course. It is less stressful and more about your real education where as AP classes are about taking an exam and on top of that you need grades for it.</p>