<p>At your school, can you choose which APs and Honors you want to take? or do you need a recommendation to be in an AP or honors course?</p>
<p>You need recommendation.</p>
<p>You can choose, but we need recommendations. After that, we take a test. Whether that be an essay or multiple choice questions, to see if we can get in. For APUSH I had to write an essay in addition to recommendations, and for English, in addition to recommendations, I had to write an essay and answer multiple choice questions.</p>
<p>to get into:
honors - 85% in hnrs last year, or 90% in reg
AP - 90% in hnrs, or 95% in reg</p>
<p>plus a teachers signature, idk if that counts as a recommendation; but if you have the right average the teacher will sign you in.</p>
<p>you need rec, but it is easy to get around with a teacher signature</p>
<p>Open enrollment (you don’t need a teacher’s recommendation or even decent grades to get into any AP class). Although, a teacher might persuade you in private to not to take a certain class, but ultimately you and the GC make the final decision. </p>
<p>Obviously, you need to fulfill prerequisites (although there are some people are able to bypass that – don’t know why/how). This year will be the first year implementing this policy (I’m not too crazy about it though).</p>
<p>It depends on which class. Some require an essay but most are based off grades and recommendation.</p>
<p>You need an A or B in the previous year of the core subject to take APUSH, AP Lang, AP Lit, AP Calc AB online, and AP Physics B online. </p>
<p>AP Psych does not have any prerequisites. </p>
<p>That’s pretty much it.</p>
<p>A half decent grade in a prereq is always good but that’s about it.</p>
<p>You can choose. No recommendations. No tests. No required grades.</p>
<p>you can choose, it says 3.5 GPA+ but one of my teachers said if you have a 3.0+ you’re fine and . and you need prereqs not recs</p>
<p>You need a certain grade in a previous class in my school to apply for one. Normally, that is an A- or B+, but for harder classes, like Chinese, it could be as low as a B-. In addition to the grade you also need a recommendation. The teachers decide who will get the (limited) spots based on past work.</p>
<p>You need a reccomendation, but you can always override (with parent signature)</p>
<p>anyone can take anything…I hate it.</p>
<p>Different classes have different requirements, but all of them have some sort of prerequisite, exam, or recommendation.</p>
<p>Recommendation and prerequisites.</p>
<p>Schools that let kids choose their classes are schools that can’t send anyone out of the state. </p>
<p>My school doesn’t recommend people when they get a 93 in a class…</p>
<p>Seems like dumb kids get higher gpa’s</p>
<p>you can choose but you have that priority if you’re already in honors or AP. otherwise if you neither an AP student or honors student, you’d have to be recommended.</p>
<p>My school is SOOO stupid: Besides History, you have to take the Honors level of a class before you take the AP level. You also need a recommendation and at least a B in said class.</p>
<p>For example, I would have to take Hon Physics before I take AP Physics, or I’d have to take Hon Bio before AP Bio.</p>
<p>You have to fill out an application for pretty much every AP class. Exceptions include Calculus BC, for most students, because the teacher for it teaches Pre-Cal.
On the application, you put GPA, state that you have taken the prerequisites, your grades in previous classes in the subject. For English and US History, you have to write a sample. For some classes like Envi Sci you have to explain why you should be in the class. Usually you don’t have to get a signed rec because that goes on our course optioning sheet.
I don’t really know what happens after you sign up though. It always seemed to me that everyone got in most classes, but my Human Geog teacher talked one day about someone who didn’t get in, and my APWH teacher said today that he lets everyone in and there’s definitely a difference between the caliber of the students in his classes and in my other AP classes.</p>
<p>For Honors, the top 80 students are culled from 7th grade, and they’re in the Honors program for 2 years. Honors program = History, Science, English. It used to be Latin instead of Science the year I took it though. So we have AA classes, which are the exact same level as Honors.</p>
<p>In AA, some assignments seem sort of random, but generally, you just write [Insert Class Here] AA and get the form signed by your current teacher in the subject or the teacher you will have for the subject.</p>