<p>Just found out self-studied APs don't count towards our GPA at my school ): I was planning on selfing Psychology, partly because I have an interest in the subject, and partly..well, for the GPA boost. I'm a rising freshman; do you guys think I should still self psych? I'm kind of skeptical about it now. Like, even though I wanna learn more about the subject, I feel like I might be wasting my time, especially since psych is considered one of the easiest APs out there. What's the system at your school?</p>
<p>Of course not.</p>
<p>No school (that I know) gives you credit for them, the point of self studying is so you can get a good score on the AP and get college credit.
If you’re interested study it, bettering your self is never wasting time. Being skeptical because your GPA won’t gain any bonuses is however wasting time. You’re just a rising freshman, you have plenty of time to decide whether or not to self study it. Do they offer Pysch at your school at some point?</p>
<p>Haha nope. I don’t even know if my school will even order tests for me next year.</p>
<p>Wow, really? I read somewhere in the self-studying thread that some people self-studied for the GPA boost. </p>
<p>@bandgeek - My school does offer a regular Psych course.</p>
<p>The thing about self-studying is that you don’t get a grade at the end, so there’s no way for it to factor into your GPA, just like AP exam scores in graded classes don’t get factored into the GPA.</p>
<p>As a rising freshman, you should probably learn the ropes of high school before you start self-studying. What classes are you taking next year? Most people find that high school is a huge step from middle school. You should probably learn what an AP class is and what the exam entails before you decide to self-study. </p>
<p>Learn how to balance the more challenging courses with whatever other obligations you may have and discover extracurricular opportunities. Don’t spend your first year in high school stressing out trying to take on too much; it’s quite unnecessary. There’s plenty of time to take many AP exams, and you’ll just hate yourself if you miss out on everything else freshman year trying to self-study, and then you still only get a 1 or 2 (which colleges won’t accept) because you didn’t allow yourself a proper transition period.</p>
<p>No; why on earth would it?</p>
<p>Not at my school. If it did (and also counted for high school credit), I’d have worked my ass off, self-studied everything academic, and gotten out of that ****hole.</p>
<p>And just to put the cart a little further in front of the horse, AP’s don’t boost your GPA for college either 
, they just give you the credit.</p>
<p>I took independent-study AP Physics, and it counted towards my weighted GPA as long as I did all the coursework for AP and regular physics, met with the teacher every few weeks, and took the AP test</p>
<p>I would take the regular Pysch course first to see how it goes. An intro course can teach you enough about a course to see if you are really interested by it or just the idea of it.</p>
<p>Dang I had no idea. Now I feel like a noob LOL</p>
<p>@grammargirl - Thanks for the tips! I’m taking Honors Eng, APCS, AP Phys B, PE, and Alg II, and French. I had a couple of meetings with our schools GC already, way back in April, so I think I have everything all balanced out.</p>