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<li><p>APs not offered (due to pre-requisites) until Junior year. And even then it’s only one.</p></li>
<li><p>APs capped at three during senior year.</p></li>
<li><p>Only 7 APs offered…</p></li>
<li><p>Honors classes aren’t weighted.</p></li>
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<li>Honors classes are unweighted</li>
<li>IB SLs aren’t weighted (except if coseated with AP)</li>
<li>2nd Year IB Math SL/1st Year IB Math HL is combined</li>
<li>Above class does not coseat with any AP</li>
<li>Only APUSH can be taken sophomore year (except if on track for AP Calc)</li>
<li>No other history APs</li>
<li>AP Bio and Chem are double-blocked, which gives juniors and seniors in those classes 5 classes for the year</li>
<li>Said classes have independent, unweighted lab grades</li>
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<p>1) You HAVE to take JROTC in order to graduate for practical arts requirements.
2) Four years of P.E and Health
3) If you are taking AP Biology, you can’t take Anatomy and Physiology.
4) You can’t take AP Biology without taking Chemistry Honors first. HOWEVER, you can take AP Chemistry without taking Chemistry Honors. Where is the logic in that?</p>
<p>And the worst one of all:</p>
<p>5) Because my guidance counselors are so damn stupid - if you sign up for AP US History, the class will only cover everything after Reconstruction because assuming that you have taken US History I honors (Colonial to Civil War) - which isn’t even taught at AP level - you should be okay for AP test. Such stupidity.</p>
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<li><p>No APs freshman year</p></li>
<li><p>Only APs available for sophmore year are US Gov or Calc AB if you are a super math genius (which I am not)</p></li>
<li><p>My school thinks it is a good idea to schedule 2 classes of APWH with a teacher who is a Psychology major and hates history and 1 class with the guy who actually knows what he’s talking about.</p></li>
<li><p>Because people take US History honors as a freshman and because freshmen can’t do AP, my school has never had an APUSH class. I think it’s weird that we don’t have APUSH when it’s one of the most common APs, and then we have Spanish Literature, which is one of the least common.</p></li>
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<li><p>We’re only supposed to take five classes a year; it took me about 20 minutes to convince the person in charge of scheduling that school isn’t that goddamn hard and I can handle adding AP Stats. And the only reason she eventually let me is that my grades aren’t that great so she doesn’t feel the need to protect my GPA, which is all my school cares about. And now, because I already have a much more difficult than average course load, I probably won’t be placed in AP English even though I have all the requirements for it.</p></li>
<li><p>We have a class between Alg. II and Pre-Calc, so those who are only average or above-average in math only get up to Pre-Calc during high school. Only maybe 10% of students are able to take Calc before they graduate.</p></li>
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<li>No 9th grade APs</li>
<li>No AP Statistics</li>
<li>No AP Computer Science</li>
<li>Capped to 3 APs senior year. So dumb.</li>
<li>I think my school only offers 2 English APs, 4 Social Studies APs, 1 Art AP (I think?), 1 Math AP, 4 Science APs which is lame because my school is really competitive so I didn’t get in to any of the English or Social Studies APs.</li>
<li>No IB. Generally an entire schedule is made up of IBs and IBs get +0.5 to their GPA at Georgia Tech.</li>
<li>GPA system is stupid.</li>
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<p>[ol]
[<em>][size=3]No AP Courses<a href=“but%20my%20school%20does%20offer%20almost%20all%20exams”>/size</a>
[</em>]No ranking (perhaps a good thing?)
[<em>]Only sciences are physics, biology and chemistry.
[</em>]Courses are two-years long
[<em>]History is general world history. Nothing specific.
[</em>]There is a ‘balance’ requirement so I can’t take only science subjects.
[li]Very limited curriculum. No fine arts. [/ol]</p>[/li]
<p>Might add some more if I can think of more.</p>
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<li>No AP’s for freshmen or sophomores (AP US History used to be split into two years of AP, but now it’s 1 yr of honors and 1 yr of AP… everyone takes the AP test in their jr yr either way though)</li>
<li>There’s usually only one AP class per AP subject (1 AP Euro, 1 AP Stats, etc) so it’s hard to make your schedule work out to fit as many as you want to take.</li>
<li>There’s not very many AP’s… we have US History, Euro, Calc AB & BC, Stats, Gov, Bio, Chem, English Lit & Language, French, Spanish, and Psych. I mean, I’m not complaining since I know there are many schools that have a lot less (or none at all), but I do wish the school offered a few more since there are plenty of teachers that would be capable of teaching them and it would give all the kids who take AP level courses a few more options if their schedules don’t work out like I mentioned above.</li>
<li>We have to take one Visual/Performing Arts credit and one Career credit for part of our grad requirement.</li>
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<p>My school’s sister school also offers more AP classes than my own, which I always thought was a little weird considering they have fewer students overall than we do and I our school performs better on the AP tests in terms of how many scores are eligible for college credit. They also allow students to take AP tests sophomore year, but they take AP Gov as their social studies class cohort with Honors English instead of Honors US History.</p>
<p>If you start with geometry, you MUST go through pre calculus
Geometry->Algebra2->Precalc->APCalc</p>
<p>If you start with algebra 1, you can skip straight into ap calculus
Algebra->Geometry->Algebra2->APCalc</p>
<p>There is only Calc AB
I couldn’t take an AP science until senior year because I wasnt put on the AP track immediately after freshman year
There is AP English but no honors >_<</p>
<p>We have AP Econ and AP US Gov combined, but it’s secretly an AP Euro History class. There’s about a week of going over Econ and Gov. No AP Bio, no AP Chem (only IB Chem), no AP Psych, no AP World History, no AP Physics, no AP Music Theory, no AP Comp Sci. Oh, and IB Chem isn’t weighted, so my B+ that I worked my a*s off for is treated the same as a B- in ■■■■■■ chem. ■■■</p>
<p>Forgot to mention, only Calc AB.</p>
<p>I live in Canada. My school has only 3 APs, Eng Lang, Lit, and Calc AB, which we have to wait until junior year to take (even then, we basically have to skip a grade through summer school).</p>
<p>We have a fairly open policy on AP like a kid in regular world history (freshman) and enroll in APUSH as a sophomore at least that is how it’s suppose to go. Almost all the counselors tell people they can’t enroll in an AP class even if they are in honors and AP classes. It’s gotten so bad that you have to go to the teacher directly tell them you want to be in their class, then they send the list to the principal, THEN you’re enrolled in the class.</p>
<p>Guys can’t take dance. It’s exclusively for females.</p>
<p>“Guys can’t take dance. It’s exclusively for females.”</p>
<p>If you go to a public school, this is breaking soooooo many civil rights act laws.</p>
<p>About the dance class only being for girls, I’m surprised that they can do that. Someone could probably get that changed if they complained enough about unlawful discrimination or something.</p>
<p>My school has no ap classes whatsoever. We have to take our local community college’s clasees (not ap) and take the optional ap test. What a scam.</p>
<p>Well, I just graduated from high school… but:</p>
<p>1) Not allowed to take more than 4 AP classes
2) You have to have a B- to get into the next level of classes (like math). Fine, but the teachers curve the grades like a college class, even if you’re in Alg 1.
3) Even if you want a class (ie AP Psych), some teachers won’t sign off on your registration form that you can take that class if they don’t like you. Yes, to get into any honors or AP classes, the teacher teaching the class must sign your paper.</p>
<p>sorry forgot about this one:</p>
<p>4) Junior year Honors English is equivalent to AP English Language, but the school doesnt call it AP because they don’t want to pay for the ‘title.’ We all take the AP test anyway.</p>
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<li><p>I go to a school of 2,800 students and we can never get enough people to hold an AP Computer Science class.</p></li>
<li><p>We have to fit our AP history classes in with state history standards. Students can only take AP US History sophomore year and AP US Gov and AP Comparative Gov (administered as one course) junior year. Students can only chose their social studies class senior year, and students wishing to take an AP senior year can only choose from European History and Psychology.</p></li>
<li><p>No AP economics classes. This kind of goes along with number 2.</p></li>
<li><p>Our gym and health requirements start to get annoying once junior year arrives.</p></li>
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<p>Besides from that, everything is pretty good.</p>
<p>"Yes, to get into any honors or AP classes, the teacher teaching the class must sign your paper. "</p>
<p>Same here! So if there’s a teacher who doesn’t like you, you’re screwed >_<</p>