@Groundwork2022 @itsgettingreal17 I’ve grown up in a public school system in NH with lots of money, but education just isn’t a huge deal here and there is zero competitiveness. Thus the teachers are nice but they don’t seem to be very qualified. The only teacher I’ve had that I could tell actually knew what he/she was talking about was my Calc teacher this year.
Decades ago, when I was in high school, the high school had only two levels of courses, regular and honors. AP courses were the honors courses at the top level of some subjects (12th grade English, calculus, foreign language level 4). There was no honors course in between regular and AP for those courses with an AP option (and there were not that many AP courses). This was a non elite public high school (about a third of graduates to four year colleges, mostly in state public).
Many AP courses cover over a year in high school material similar to a one semester college course (there are some exceptions, like calculus BC). So 6 AP courses may be equivalent in material coverage to 6 semester long college courses – or less if the college does not give subject credit for some due to not matching its own courses in material covered.