<p>My school’s just a mess. You can take AP Bio sophomore year, and pretty much everyone does because the teacher is a hundred years old and totally senile and everyone ends up with grades of over a hundred in there. Junior year, the only AP you can take is APUSH (well, it was in my day. Now they have English Language for the juniors). As a senior, you can take AP Euro, AP English, AP Calculus AB, and AP Physics B. Most of the people I’m friends with have taken every AP class our school offers just because it’s not a very big challenge to do so.</p>
<p>I’m about to enter my final year in a Catholic high school here on Long Island, and overall, I’m a little disappointed because of what AP’s I could have taken or wished I was able to take. Basically, to take any AP in my school, one needs at least an 85 average as well as a teacher approval. Most of the AP students are sensible folks, but there are always a decent amount of people that simply aren’t ready for the rigors my the class (my school has many lazy kids). I took the only AP I could this year (U.S History), and it proved to be a very successful experience. A high 90’s class average, 790 SAT II score, and 5 AP grade were all rewards worth the effort. I believe that my school could actually have a few more AP’s, but the sheer amount of interest is too small and some of the silly state (Regents) courses/requirements get in the way.</p>
<p>Current AP’s:</p>
<p>Courses added next (2009-2010) school year (>_>):</p>
<p>World History (probably 10th grade because of the state exam that every sophomore takes)</p>
<p>Chemistry (10th grade, but only for honors students I’d think)</p>
<p>Psychology (12th grade I think)</p>
<p>Courses already implemented:</p>
<p>U.S. History (11th grade)</p>
<p>Biology (12th grade)</p>
<p>Calculus AB (12th grade: should be BC, but not surprising considering my school…)</p>
<p>European History (12th grade)</p>
<p>Certain seniors at my school are able to take a college-level English course. The class is not AP English Language and Composition, but it is apparently sufficient enough to prepare students for the College Board exam.</p>
<p>No freshmen or sophomores are allowed to take AP’s.</p>
<p>As a junior, you can take up to 2. Most students who take at least 1 AP will do USH, because it covers the third semester requirement for USH in general. Chemistry is second most popular for juniors.</p>
<p>As a senior, you can take up to 6.</p>
<p>My school only offers the following AP courses:</p>
<p>US History
Language and Comp
Literature
Calculus (the lower level one. AB?)
Environmental Science</p>
<p>You are only allowed to take an AP in your Junior or Senior. I <em>think</em> that every one of them except for Environmental Science is grade-level specific, but I’m not 100% on that. No one ever does them out of the established order.</p>
<p>Wow. My school is lame.
It only offers AP Eng Lit, AP Statistics, APUSH, AP Bio, AP Chem, and AP Calc (AB I think).
Because of the prerequists for each class only Juniors and Seniors can take them.
AP Eng- 12
AP Stat-11/12
APUSH-11
AP Bio-11/12
AP Chem (not offered every year)-11/12
AP Clac-12</p>
<p>Up until last year Freshman couldn’t take any AP’s but they started offering Human Geog. for them if they have a high enough State Test score (FCAT) from Middle School.
10th- Human Geog. World Hist. Art Hist. AP Enviro.
11th- Same plus Psych, Eng Lang, Bio, US Hist, Music Theory, Spanish Lang, Spanish Lit, Latin Vergil, Latin Lit, Calc (AB & BC), Stats, Physics, Chem.
12th- Same plus Eng Lit, US Gov.</p>
<p>We have a weird system as freshman are still at the junior high school and high school is grades 10-12.
If freshman are really good at a certain area they can take an AP class if it is offered 1st period (such as AP languages, calc)</p>
<p>Sophomores can take: Art History, Music Theory, Stats, Chem, AP language classes if they are super-advanced, or Calc if they are super-advanced, or Bio/Physics if they meet all the requirements like if they took chem over the summer</p>
<p>Juniors can take: any of the previously listed classes plus US History</p>
<p>Seniors can take: Macro/Micro Econ, Comp/Lit, Human Geography, US Gov/Pol, Studio Art</p>
<p>yeppp</p>
<p>As of this year, my school has added 3 online AP’s, so:</p>
<p>Freshman: None
Sophomore: None
Junior: APUSH, AP Lang, AP Psychology*
Senior: AP Physics B, AP Calc AB, AP Lit, AP Psychology*</p>
<p>*For Psych: I don’t know if Freshman/Sophomores are allowed to take it or not. Typically, only upperclassmen have weighted classes available to them, but I don’t know about Psych because it has no pre-reqs. It’s probably not available to them though.</p>
<p>school: very competitive magnet school in FL.</p>
<p>Freshman - ap world, ap hug
sophomore - any AP except for sciences, Lang, Lit and APUSH.
Junior / Senior - Any AP </p>
<p>my school basically has a if you want to take it and it fits in your sched, go ahead; although counselors try to discourage 3+ APs before Junior year.</p>
<p>the school pays for the exams and everything so some people try to take as many as they can, but … eh</p>
<p>also we have FL Virtual School’s AP classes and we can self-study.</p>
<p>We barely have any APs at my public school</p>
<p>AP Euro as a sophomore</p>
<p>APUSH and AP Lang as a junior</p>
<p>AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Calc AB(didnt have it last year, no one signed up), and AP Stats as a senior</p>
<p>AP Psych and AP Spanish Lang can be taken anytime from soph year up</p>
<p>the school pays test only if you take more than 2
but they dont pay for selfstudies (sucks for me, I selfstudied Bio, and want to do Calc BC and Chem next year)</p>
<p>We have more alcoholics than AP students at my school though</p>
<p>Freshman - none
Sophomore - none (exception: AP Calc for the advanced)
Junior - APUSH, AP English Lang, AP Stats, AP Calc, AP Spanish/French/German
Senior - AP Gov, AP English Lit, AP Physics, AP Spanish/French/German (and AP Chem if there are enough people interested, which there usually aren’t)</p>
<p>My school is extremely annoying in it’s lack of flexibility of schedules.
Everyone (who wishes to take honors/APs) is forced to make their hardest, most rigorous year senior year as opposed to junior year. The top 10% of the school has 2 APs (only one of which is core - AP US history) junior year and the top 20-30 students or so have 3 (AP Calc A/B as an additional one).
Also, we have one AP science (Bio), which is very frustrating (AP Chemistry would be preferable…) and lack various other APs due to a lack of classrooms/staff.
Relatively, APs are looked upon as equivalent to honors classes here, and grading/preparation is very heavily decided by the teachers you get. Good place =D</p>
<p>My school recently opted this whole “open enrollment” AP classes with complete disregard for how a student is performing. So, even if you failed a class in the previous year, you can still take as many APs as you want. Apparently, there are NO fixed limits on how AP classes can be taken in a year. We have sophomores who are planning on taking 4-5 AP classes - and here’s the kicker - they just want to see how AP classes they can fit in their schedule, like a some sort of competition. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I’m not a fond of the idea - mainly because I don’t want to be stuck in a class where half of the people are not even remotely concerned about learning, but rather hanging out and socializing. Believe me, it sucks for the people who ACTUALLY want to learn.</p>
<p>But before this open enrollment policy:</p>
<p>Freshmen: A few take AP United States if they finished a certain amount of history credits.
Sophomore: AP Gov/Politics, AP European History, AP Physics, AP Biology, AP Western Civ.
Junior: AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Art History (very popular), AP Art History, APUSH, AP World History, AP Economics
Senior: AP Engish and Composition, AP Calculus AB/BC, AP Spanish, AP Economics, AP Stats, AP Music Theory, AP French, AP Environmental, AP <em>insert w/e else can be fitted into your schedule</em></p>
<p>at my school, APUSH is the only sophomore AP, and it’s very rare for freshmen to take any APs, but it does happen - mostly because my school strongly discourages it. However, if an eager young freshman/sophomore really wants to take an AP, if you bug your GC enough, you can do it. You also have to have any of the pre-requisites - eg, they won’t let you take AP Bio if you haven’t taken some form of Chem.</p>
<p>@xxrunningonempty</p>
<p>My school’s had an open-enrollment policy for a while now. It usually works out ok because the Sophomore teachers give recommendations to the students that they think should take APs in their Junior year. The people who get recommendations generally take the APs. Those who don’t almost never do.</p>
<p>This year however the Sophomores decided to disregard their lack of recommendations and about half of their class is taking APUSH and Eng Lang XD</p>
<p>Our school has 9 APs available</p>
<p>9th - none</p>
<p>10th - none
11th - AP Biology or AP Chemistry, AP English Language and Composition, AP French, AP Spanish</p>
<p>12th - AP Biology or AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French, AP Spanish, AP US History, AP Studio Art, AP Calculus AB</p>
<p>our school has most of the AP’s available, and until last year, they would pay for all your AP exams, but now they’ve made students pay</p>
<p>anyway, you’re allowed to take as many as you want in any year, but mostly freshman only take Physics B b/c that’s all they’re allowed to take unless they excel in math and take calculus</p>
<p>My school offers AP courses as follows:</p>
<p>Freshman Year: No AP classes. Only offers Pre-AP classes in English and Biology and Honors level Geometry or Competiton level Geometry.</p>
<p>Sophomore Year: AP Biology (used to be AP Chemistry), and AP World History.</p>
<p>Junior Year: AP English Lang, APUSH, AP Stats, APES, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Psych, AP Studio Art 3-D</p>
<p>Senior Year: AP English Lit, AP Calculus AB or BC, AP Physics B, AP American Government (1/2 year course), AP Macroeconomics (1/2 year course), AP Spanish Language and Composition, AP Stats, APES, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Psych, AP Studio Art 3-D</p>
<p>However it is not impossible to bend these rules. For example I know a person who took AP World Hist, AP Chem, and APES his 10th Grade year. Also, a lot of people who either took AP Chem or Physics Honors (like me :D) can take AP Physics in 11th grade year.</p>