<p>Just throwing this out there. What AP classes do you take, and did you take them for the extra AP weighting (for unweighted schools: sucks for you!) or are you genuinely interested in the subject matter?</p>
<p>In my case, I'm taking AP Biology, AP English Lit, AP Euro, AP Calc (AB), and AP French.</p>
<p>Biology, Euro and Lit I took for the curricula (well, I took Lit to avoid taking the horribly depressing Honors English 12 course), and the others I took for the credit. I enjoy all my classes now, but my reasoning certainly was different.</p>
<p>cosine45^^^ same for me. AP bio is the only good one. I would rather stab my eyes out than take AP lit and AP calc if it weren't for the extra points. :D</p>
<p>HOKAY.
in a perfect world where good teachers taught APs, I would probably still be taking AP American History and AP Language (I love American history and english)...and would probably still take AP Chem and AP Music. I would take Shakespeare I (college course) because I'm in love with Shakespeare, but I wouldn't mind taking my AP World class either.</p>
<p>however, I go to a horrible school where teachers in either class are horrible and don't teach (my chemistry honors teacher was bad, but the regular class didn't finish 3/8 units needed for regents chem)...so I just take the honors credit...</p>
<p>World-For the weighting/course load
Chem-Chem is so fierce, I lurv it.
Bio-I like biology, even though our class is lackluster.
Psych-Self studying because I like psych and I've heard it's pretty easy.</p>
<p>I'm only a freshman, and I'm not crazy, so I'm not in any APs right now, but next year I chose AP Env.Sci. Actually, when I picked it, I wasn't thinking about the weighting at all, but now that it has been brought up, I guess that will be a good benefit if I do well in the class, otherwise... not so much. My main reason for taking it is because I want to get in APChem, APPhysics, and APBio just because I know I should do them, and I wanted to do AP Environmental because it is a really well taught class (the teacher who my H.Bio teacher this year is an amazing guy). I knew that if I didn't do it next year, I'd probably never get the chance to do it again. I'm doubling up on science next year, I'm also doing H.Chemistry.</p>
<p>My school doesn't weight and has a pretty strict AP policy, so I'll probably take...3-4 by the time I graduate, and I will have been interested in all of them. I see no purpose in taking courses you know you'll hate, but that perspective is probably a product of the school I go to.</p>
<p>every ap ive taken or will take is because of the weight. i'm interesting in physics and calculus but i couldnt care less about any of the others.
by graduation ill have: ap world history, ap euro, ap geo, ap english lang, ap micro, ap art history, ap stat, ap physics c mechanics and electricity and magnetism, ap us history, ap calc bc, ap us gov, ap macro, ap english lit, ap psych, and ap enviro plus some college courses thrown in</p>
<p>i've taken APUSH and AP Spanish because i like the subjects (and teachers)- i realized that many colleges "don't care much" about weighted GPAs, and tend to recalculate GPAs anyway, so the extra "weight" didn't matter to me (and my school doesn't rank, so...).</p>
<p>I'm taking 6 classes that are either AP or have AP weighting. The only one I'm NOT interested in is AP Calc, and I took it because I was in Honors (Trig and PreCalc) last year and there is no Honors Calc. It's either college prep or AP, and I'd rather be challenged than be bored in an easy class.</p>
<p>Ahh, and last year I took AP Stat (in addition to my other math class) which I thought would be horrible (I like humanities classes and science, but math isn't my thing) but it ended up being pretty great. So in the beginning it was for the weight, but for some reason I had some talent in it and I ended up genuinely liking the class. The teacher was great- one of the only people on earth that could make bell curves exciting.</p>
<p>I am taking AP Bio for the SAT II, and english language to get out of a class full of complete idiots in english 3.</p>
<p>Next year I will be taking physics B and calc because that's what I'm interested in, the rest of the APs will just be so that I will be in a class with smart, motivated students instead of the filipinos/hawaiians (no offense to anyone here).</p>
<p>My school doesn't weight AT ALL (which is sort of annoying as the class ranks are skewed because of that, but whatever) so... I guess I just take AP classes because I'm interested in them. Except I hate calculus ... but our teacher has a really really huge curve in that class, so it's not that bad.</p>
<p>Haha, I don't really necessarily take them for the weighting; I take them to avoid taking the regular classes in the same area. ;) </p>
<p>I hate calculus. Bio I actually took because I wanted to, although I'm really only interesting in the ecology/evolution stuff. Cellular biology is not fun for me.</p>
<p>This question doesn't really apply to me because I like virtually every subject the College Board offers for AP testing (except Art History and Studio Art).</p>
<p>I only have two APs this year:
APUSH - I like U.S. History, and a lot of friends were taking it.
AP Stats - I originally wanted it both for a GPA boost and for college credit, but it has pretty much revolutionized the way I think.</p>
<p>Sciences/math - to get ahead in those subjects
History/others - to get as much of those subjects done as possible</p>
<p>My school doesn't weight them, which sucks. Like some people said, I'm also taking AP's to get into classes full of smarter people, which has only partially worked.</p>
<p>Honestly, don't most of us take the APs because we would be bored silly without them? </p>
<p>The only class I would be taking for the 'weighting' would be Honors French. I would have dropped out of French long ago because at our school it's a throw away language. You don't actually learn French but the teacher gives everyone an A for no reason. So I stuck around until third year for the option to take honors. At my school honors and regular are the EXACT same class when you get to your third year. So why not go for honors? Otherwise I would have taken Spanish or some other language where, y'know, I actually learn to speak it.</p>