<p>Why do some schools offer more AP classes than the amount of AP tests that exist?!??</p>
<p>They don't. </p>
<p>Some schools claim they have AP classes that don't exist.</p>
<p>i know! i'm reading all these people's apps and they list almost all ap or honors classes...
my school only has 19 ap classes and 8 honors classes... and most of the honors classes are based on grade, like english 10 honors and english 11 honors
jeez</p>
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<p>I just take the ones that I know there are AP tests for... this year the only one i'm taking is AP Creative Sewing.</p>
<p>I've never heard of a school with more than 38 APs.</p>
<p>55 APs??? Nooo way.</p>
<p>yea i know. im like, "holy. <em>censored</em>"</p>
<p>I don't like how they call them "AP", after all AP insinuates College Board curiculum classes with the College Board test to accompany them. The name AP should be different.</p>
<p>Those courses aren't actually approved by the CB, are they? That's ridiculous.</p>
<p>^ Doubt it.</p>
<p>thankfully my school doesn't claim that the course is AP even when it isnt so i'm good</p>
<p>Stuy offers almost every AP (I checked their site). Either 55 is a typo, or they are counting the ungodly amount of AP English classes stuy offers. Apparently, you pick AP English (lit) and you pick a kind of literature. They have everything from Gothic Lit and on, so while they technically have like 10 AP English lit classes, it's still the same AP class and should only count once.</p>
<p>We have some honors classes that are hard enough to be AP but since there's no exam a the end..it's not AP.</p>
<p>Which sucks because honors classes are quite hard and you don't get weighted credit...so even if you get a B because it's so hard...it's still a 3.0</p>
<p>Many schools designate some classes they offer as 'AP' because they consider them the same rigor as AP courses for purposes such as weighting GPAs or tracking students. Courses are only officially AP when they follow the College Board curriculum and have the intention of helping students reach the AP test successfully. That is why sometimes you will see someone say they're taking 'AP Pre-Calc' when that certainly isn't a College Board AP course. I believe right now there are about 40 AP tests offered in various subjects.</p>
<p>I'm guessing the 55 APs is more like 55 AP + Honors courses.</p>
<p>tons of places call a class AP when its really not</p>
<p>my little sisters' middle school has an "AP" us history class but its really nothing.. like they just have to color their workbooks better than the regular classes lol</p>
<p>^ Middle school honors/AP/Gifted/Whatever is really a waste of time for me. The gifted program is one thing, the classes are totally different and for the most part useless. I don't get the point. Mine weren't more challenging that I know of.</p>
<p>Haha, I remember my school's "gifted" program in elementary school. Every Monday morning during math class, a select few of us went across the hall to the music room, where the super weird music teacher taught us how to do "more challenging" math. I remember one time it was learning how to calculate 15% tips. Another time it was mammoth long division problems. I suppose they were relevant topics at the time, but I don't think it really helped at all. The other laughable thing is that over half the elementary students are in the gifted program. While it's great that they try to get as many students involved as possible, I don't think the definition of "gifted" includes half the class. Sorry.</p>
<p>We didn't even get to pick our classes in middle school.
Except we got to pick one elective in the 7th grade..
Everyone was in the same classes no matter how stupid/smart you are. Honors classes didn't start until the 9th grade when we got to choose whether to take regular or honors for math, science, english and history.</p>