<p>Next year I want to take nine AP exams. They are...</p>
<p>Spanish Language
Statistics
US Government
Macroeconomics (self study)
Microeconomics (self study)
World History (self study)
European History (self study)
Computer Science A (self study)
AP Comparative Government (self study)</p>
<p>Is it possible? How can I get a jump on these? How does my workload look? I have about a year to study for them. And what do I do about scheduling the exams if some of them end up happening at the same time?</p>
<p>yes, very possible
get a jump on them by starting in the summer
your workload looks manageable and you probably won’t die if you start early enough and manage your time well.
just schedule any conflicting tests for the make-up week if any of them conflict</p>
<p>Alright, cool. I’ll go for it. I may or may not add AP Lit as well, which I’d be taking as a class in school and should be easy. What books and study materials should I buy to get cranking on these exams?</p>
<p>please don’t bring that upon yourself… nine ap classes is way to much stress and torture for any high schooler. most people at my school take 3, some take 4/5, and one guy is actually taking 6, but he is literally draining away his life… you should cut down on three or four of them, enjoy life… and NYU/ Amherst don’t expect that much of a course load anyway, plus youd be spending most of your time studying. its better to take 3 or four and get 5’s, than 3/4 on 9 exams!</p>
<p>That sounds silly and like a waste of time…yes it will look good but it won’t make you look any better to adcoms than the kid who took 4 or 5 APs and did extremely well on them. Life is too short to spend time studying for 9 ap exams than hanging out with your family or friends.</p>
<p>^^^I’m not even sure it’ll look that great to adcoms. With your transcript in hand adcoms will know that you didn’t actually take the corresponding classes for the tests you are self-studying for…so they will (correctly, I’m guessing) assume that your are loading up on APs in an effort to either save $$ or jump start credits (I don’t either exactly thrill an adcom) or they will (correctly, I’m guessing) assume that you are trying to impress them.</p>
<p>Check out the credit policies for your schools. For example, none of mine would accept Comp. Gov’t., and most of mine only accept 1 history test, and ignore the rest. Do your research before you waste your time and money.</p>
<p>Yeah, Music, its the same case with mine apparently. Which AP tests would it be most advantageous for me to take? My major is either going to be Linguistics, Economics, or International Relations. Would computer science be at all handy?</p>
<p>I’m taking 9 AP’s. I’ve included Physics C as two. But yeah I’m taking the following:</p>
<p>Physics C: Mech
Physics C: E&M
Psych (self study)
Macro (self study)
Micro (self study)
English Lit
Calc BC
Chem
Comp Sci A (self study)</p>
<p>I have a lot less time than you do and so far it all seems manageable. No one is wasting away his or her life. It’s going to get me mad creds in college. Just make sure you can keep up. That’s a lot of history you’re doing.</p>
<p>I’m taking 11, but I’m sure my colleges won’t accept most of them. It’s just for challenging myself, mainly, and making myself a more learned person about the world. They are as follows:</p>
<p>World History
English Language
Physics C: Mechanics
Calculus AB
Psychology (self-study)
Human Geography (self-study)
Art History (self-study)
European History (self-study)
US History (self-study)
Environmental Science (self-study)
Comparative Government (self-study)</p>
<p>It’s all pretty easy because the subjects, like the histories and the comparative government overlap each other, the calculus and physics overlaps, and human geography and environmental science are related somewhat. So they’re pretty easy. I have a lot of time, partly because I don’t study for anything at all, and do excellently anyway.</p>
<p>If your sole reason is because it’ll “look good on college applications” that’s not true if you’re not going to get a 5 for most of them. We can’t judge since we don’t know how dedicated of a student you are or how smart you are, but there’s nothing conceptually hard about those classes it’s just a lot of work. I’ve only taken statistics, macro, world history, comp gov, and comp sci and comp gov is the hardest history (in my opinion) and there aren’t a lot of resources for it. World history’s just memorization, macro is pretty simple in the fact that it has like 4 major concepts and if you know that you’re set, statistics is really easy since it’s just memorization, and comp sci is logic. But seriously, you’re taking spanish language already which is impossible to get a 5 in…I would cut some classes but that’s because I’m not humanities driven (but it seems you are…?).</p>
<p>Next year, I think I’m taking these:
AP Biology
AP Calculus BC
AP Art History
AP Comparative Government
AP English Language and Composition
AP French
AP US History (self-study with regular history class)
AP Music Theory (self-study)
AP US Government (self-study)
AP Macroeconomics (self-study)
AP Human Geography (self-study)</p>
<p>AP World History and AP Euro History are REALLY difficult to self study, just due to the tremendous amounts of dates and memorization you have to know. Make sure that if you do this, you actually understand everything, and you aren’t just memorizing it all. Your economics, government, and music theory should be relatively easy, though. Just make sure to balance your time, properly.</p>
<p>Please don’t. Taking that many won’t look good to colleges. Take classes you’re interested in. Any monkey can spend their life self-studying; you’re better than that.</p>
<p>Find some meaningful EC/after-school activity; cut it down to about four AP classes.</p>