<p>Instead of taking every AP known to man, why not spend your time volunteering or researching. Something that colleges will like a lot more than taking 20 AP courses.</p>
<p>Already am. :)</p>
<p>go for it
if ur a history nut, it shouldnt be too hard</p>
<p>Wait to take APUSH. You'll regret it if you take it without AP US Government (in your case: independent study). </p>
<p>I'm taking both right now and both of the courses are so much easier when taught in conjunction with one another. Government helps history alot, and history can help government.</p>
<p>5 AP's in sophomore year is plenty. History AP's require a TON of reading (if you have block scheduling, it will be insane), and if you don't read, then you will have trouble understanding it. You're lucky to go to a school that has a wide variety of AP's. Mine doesn't have AP Bio, AP Spanish, AP Latin, or AP Euro....yet.</p>
<p>Personally, I think 3 APs sophomore year is enough, but, hey, whatever floats your boat. I'd say do Euro for now and wait to take APUSH when your schedule isn't so... demanding.</p>
<p>Yea, sophomore year is the last fun year. A couple of AP's are okay, but junior year is when you usually take 4 to 6.</p>
<p>The thing is, I don't want to take APUSH Junior year with Juniors and a few sophmore, it'd feel weird.</p>
<p>That doesn't matter. You can't get ahead of others in history because there is no specific track in it. Like for math it would be: Algebra 1 -> Geometry -> Algebra 2 -> Precalc -> AP Calc AB -> AP Calc BC. With history, classes can be in any sequence. </p>
<p>Personally, I would go like this: World History -> Euro History -> U.S. History, but it doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>In my opinion, neither AP US History nor AP European History are very difficult if you're a history sort of person. In different schools, the classes might be hard, but the exams are definitely not too challenging (especially if you already have a passing familiarity with the material). </p>
<p>I guess I just wonder why you'd do them all now... Why does it matter if you're a junior in a class with other juniors? Will taking US now really enhance your education that much? What's the point taking them all this year?</p>
<p>I don't know if I'm a histroy person. I like every subject and I find my current Modern World History class to be too easy so it's boring.</p>
<p>Might as well give it a shot then, if you're bored. I still don't quite get why you want to rush through your high school curriculum so fast (unlike the maths and sciences, quality history classes at community colleges are hard to come by), unless you want to have room for some great electives later on. But to each his own.</p>
<p>Good luck n' all.</p>
<p>Well, AP Economics and AP Physcology for the last 2 years of high school. I'm going to do math classes at colleges and do AP Statistics Junior year. Also a bunch of other things that I'll explain if you instant message me or some other kind of messaging. I don't want to spend time typing it here now.</p>
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<p>I have never understood why they rush through the curriculum either. I think it's a bragging type of thing. Just cause you're younger than other class mates doesn't mean you are better/smarter than them.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it feel weird to be in a class full of juniors as a sophomore? Personally, that'd be more intimidating.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't really see why you need to go through so many APs so fast. I mean, you're smart and a great student, and you can probably handle it, but why push yourself so hard when you're already beyond what most people are doing? </p>
<p>If you take 6 APs and do all the other stuff that you talk about (volunteering, research), how will you have any time for sleep and socializing?</p>
<p>I'd actually say that if you feel up to the challenge, go for it. Six APs may or may not be too time consuming depending on the student. At most, I took five and that was my junior year; but I passed them all relatively easily without much work on my part. I am taking six this year as a senior, and the workload hasn't been that difficult - I have plenty of free time. In fact, for me, there's a correlation between the amount of AP/Honors I take and the activities that I do; from my freshman year onwards, I progressively took more and more AP/Honors and progressively increased what I did outside of school. That's how it was for me; it may be different for you.</p>
<p>So it's a judgement call because a lot of it will depend on your teachers and how much work they assign or whether you're good at doing work and whatever other factors.</p>
<p>Well, I can manage socializing during school and clubs/activities. That's socializng.</p>
<p>I'd say go for it. I'm a freshman too and im <em>kinda</em> in the same situation as you. </p>
<p>But where I come from we have a lot of classes where grade deflation exists <em>cough</em> precal and chem <em>cough</em>, so I have that to consider. </p>
<p>I myself am taking 5 APs sophomore year with a couple of self-studies (2-3) and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to manage, seeing as how I was able to balance stuff freshman year (Class-President + 2 APs + 5 Languages). </p>
<p>In regards to the APUSH, I'd say that you should take it whenever you are ready because it DOES require a LOT of reading and discipline. But once you get past that, it's an easy A. </p>
<p>But, hey, who listens to the MoCo kid anyway :-P ?</p>
<p>ok I reallllly regret being so overloaded/stressed my frosh/sophomore years! Don't take two AP History courses unless your school's not too intense. At my school, APUSH requires 2 hours of hw a night, and Euro around 1. That would be 3 hrs/night...honestly, just take one and pursue some cool extracurriculars. Colleges don't want grinds, they want real people! There's no real "point" to taking two history courses in one year...so just take Euro, relax a little more and enjoy life.</p>
<p>I think, if you studied hard enough, you will be fine. I actually like to have a life lol. I only took 2 last year (as a sophmore), I'll be taking 5 this year and 6the next. I don't get why everyone makes AP tests such a big deal. As long as you've taken the class, they should be pretty easy. APUSH has a low passing rate, I'm not sure about APMEH...What other AP's are you taking?? Are you taking all the classes or self-studying?? That depends...some are WAY harder than others. But if you don't do well this year, you could always retake it when you take the class (assuming you are self-studying for some).</p>
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<p>If you can learn it in your sophomore year and remember it until college.</p>
<p>What matters is what's in your head, not what's on your transcript. You don't want to end up at Harvard and know less history than everyone else because the others took history courses later. Successive history courses won't always force you to review the previous ones (at least in high school).</p>