<p>Just wondering... how many Honors and/or AP courses in a student's 4 years of high school is considered low, average, high?</p>
<p>Along with Honors/AP courses, how many high school COURSES taken is considered low, average or high?</p>
<p>I think about 3 AP's is average, with several honors classes. I'm not sure though, because i've taken a lot more and so have my friends. We just go to an overachieving school, though, so don't go by us.</p>
<p>I think what you're trying to find is difficult to determine. Every school is different in terms of their available courses. Some small schools have very few honors courses, let alone any AP classes. You should probably try to limit your question somehow.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. </p>
<p>Okay, for the overachieving schools/students - how many honors/AP courses will be on your transcripts?</p>
<p>I'm taking all AP/Honors courses available to me, which is about 23?</p>
<p>All of my classes are honors/AP. I will have taken 8-9 AP classes by the end of senior year (depends on scheduling and such).</p>
<p>gxing,</p>
<p>So just about every class you took would have been AP/Honors, figuring 6 per year plus things like PE and health?</p>
<p>umm... i guess it depends on the school. I've taken practically nothing but honors and AP, but there are some schools who don't offer that many APs...</p>
<p>ucla is one of the few colleges (that I've seen) that publishes their stats: average (of 2005 matriculants) AP/IB/honors = 19.</p>
<p>wow...19 an average?? that seems a bit high....im in the full IB Diploma programe and iv'e taken/currently taking 14</p>
<p>I go to a fairly competitive suburban public school and I've taken 8 APs and 12 honors courses.</p>
<p>At my school the typical competitive applicant would take:</p>
<p>LA: 3 honors, 1 AP
Math: 3 honors, 1 AP
Science: 3 honors, 1 AP
History: 1 regular, 1 honors, 2 AP's
Elective: all regular (almost none are weighted)
Language: 2 regular, 1 honors, 1 AP</p>
<p>7 regular / 11 honors / 6 AP's</p>
<p>Of course, that's just the "average" competitive applicant, someone who would probably go to NYU or something. More competitive applicants would take a couple more AP's, maybe skip one or two courses, or be in the gifted math program (BC calc junior year, multivariable senior year)</p>
<p>For me -
English: 2 honors, 2 AP
Math: 1 honors, 2 level, 1 AP (plus Alg 1 honors in middle school)
Science: 3 honors, 1 AP
History/Social Studies: 3 honors, 3 AP
Foreign Lang: 2 honors, 1 AP (plus one level in middle school)
Electives: Only Psychology is AP, rest are regular</p>
<p>This is atypical for my school. Some students take more AP math and science classes, but the majority of my class does not take any honors or AP classes.</p>
<p>apple17, that is correct. I'm going to use theoneo's breakdown:</p>
<p>English: 3 honors, 2 AP (AP Lit senior year) - one can take ap langcomp as an elective junior or senior year</p>
<p>Math: 3 honors, 2 APs - freshman year, one can "double up" and take both honors geometry and honors alg2 for elective</p>
<p>Science: 3 honors, 1 AP (Bio)</p>
<p>History: 2 honors, 2 APs</p>
<p>Elective: 3 honors/ap 1 regular</p>
<p>Language: 3 honors, 1 AP</p>
<p>Gym/Health: 4 years of regular</p>
<p>This is the most demanding the courseload in our school.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, me:</p>
<p>English: 2 honors / 2 AP
Math: 3 honors / 2 AP
Science: 3 honors / 2 AP / 2 Princeton (if it works in my schedule next year)
History: 1 regular / 1 honors / 1 AP
Language: 2 regular / 1 honors / 1 AP
Elective: 1 regular, 2 AP</p>
<p>Only one other person has ever taken two different Princeton courses at the same time. I've taken the most rigorous courseload possible (I skipped three courses) except music theory <em>technically</em> could have been robotics honors. The first year of history and the first two years of language are regular (no honors available) for everyone.</p>
<p>i have 9 APs possibly 10, 1 IB, and 4 honors because honors science wasnt offered and i didnt take honors english</p>
<p>i have all honors classes (except the required regulars ones) and 10 aps tests taken by the end of my junior year. of course that is a lot, so dont feel you have to do that many.</p>
<p>I will have 9 APs.</p>
<p>English - 2 Honors/2 APs
Math - 4 Honors/2 APs
History/Social Science - 2 Honors/5 APs
Science - 3 Honors
Language - 2 regular, 1 honors (only Level 3 is granted honors level)
Electives - 1.5 Honors </p>
<p>So... a total of 22.5 of Honors/APs.</p>
<p>And just for another perspective, my Junior Son is taking two AP classes -- AP Calc and AP Lit. That is 2/3 the AP classes our school offers. In both cases, he is the only Junior in the class. As far as I know, we have no Honors classes.</p>
<p>So to answer your question, he will graduate with 2 AP classes.</p>