<p>I'm looking to have a pretty easy senior year, so I want to self-study some AP's instead of wasting time sitting in class.</p>
<p>For reference, I've already taken these AP's:
Chem
Bio
Physics C
Calc BC
Human Geo
Euro History
US History
Lang/Comp</p>
<p>These are the classes I know I'm going to take senior year:
AP Lit
AP Econ
AP German
AP Comp Sci
Math course at college
Chem course at college
Physic course at college</p>
<p>Based on the knowledge I already have, what would be the easiest to self-study?
AP Studio Art (I don't know what this is--I suck at drawing, does that make it impossible for me to do well?)
AP Art History (I am planning to learn a lot about art/architecture on my own anyway this spring and summer)
AP Statistics
AP Music Theory (I played trombone for three years... first chair in middle school, lol)
AP Environmental Science
AP World History (I hate history, but I'm keeping my options open)
AP Psychology
AP Gov Comparative
AP US Gov</p>
<p>And that's it!</p>
<p>I may self-study Environment Science this year.</p>
<p>Which of these should I self-study for next year?</p>
<p>ap studio art-yes makes it impossible, i think you have to send in a portfolio etc.
ap art history-yeah i guess you could do it
ap psychology-definitely self-study. its the easiest of all the ap exams.</p>
<p>Dude- AP Music Theory is REALLY Hard.
You need to have played piano for years, because you need to know the roman numeral system for chords, be able to notate by ear, and sing what's on a sheet of music. I'm not saying you can't study for it, but without solid piano experience or the class, it'll be very difficult.</p>
<p>If its senior year you should be deciding based on something. What will you get credit for next year? What will your major be? Are you going for an award? When I ss it was for credit and not for the college apps. I didnt list that I was doing any. Why not go into greater depth in the subjects that you know. Or you can do numerical methods, those are really nice. It makes you pay a lot of attention to error terms and rate of convergence, something hs calc skips.</p>
<p>Psychology and Statistics (so I've heard) are super easy. It depends on what interests you more. The US gov test would probably easy too, based on the assumption that you had to take a government sometime so far in highschool.</p>
<p>Aiight... Music Theory and Studio Art are out, lol.</p>
<p>mattd, I don't really know what I want to go into for sure. I like physics, chemistry, computer science, and math, but there's so many fields that those pertain to. I'm not self studying for credit (if you mean hs credits), I'm doing it because I like learning and I don't think I learn enough at school. I've never had an interest in art or music or government, but I think that I should learn as much as I can and that my knowledge of those subjects will help me in whatever I do (especially if I go on Jeopardy). I might as well have the potential of getting college credit and random awards for it.
And I'm doing Comp Sci, math, physics, and chem next year, I hope that's in depth enough. I might take more college courses instead of APs once I find out what my choices are.</p>
<p>All I've taken for government is philosophy... if that counts. Most people take gov or economics senior year at my HS.</p>
<p>I mean college credit.
Dont become jack of all trades, master of none. You dont have to do AP subjects, good topics include: graph, group theory, algorithms, and books by Kant and Hegel. None of these have AP tests and they are better than most AP subjects (I think).</p>
<p>Don't do government then. If you're looking just for the credit, do psychology. If you're looking to actually obtain knowledge, I'd go with environmental especially if you like science or government since u should be taking that anyways. I don't know much about the environmental one though, sorry.</p>