<p>My school is very small and only offers about 8 or so. I'm planning my junior year schedule and I wanted to take 5 originally, but we have a rule where you have to have so many electives each semester, so I could then only take 3. I was going to take my 3 and was pretty happy about it, but then it turned out 2 of them were during the same time block! </p>
<p>It's AP Calc that I can't take. I can't teach it to myself because I'm not that good at math. I'm considering taking calculus at a community college, but I don't think I can handle 2 APs, my ECs, and a 15 minute drive to take a 1.5 hour class in the evening. I'm so angry. :/</p>
<p>How do you guys do it all? Are you in big schools that offer lots? Or are you just an awesome self-teacher?</p>
<p>Our schools tend to have less restricting curriculum, and they tend to offer tons and tons of APs. For example, for my senior year, I had to take English IV (Or the honors version of it), I also had to take Honors Chemistry, since I was actually waiting until my school began offering AP Chemistry and take it instead, but they never did it. So for my schedule, I am taking the aforementioned two honors along with six APs (School offers a grand total of sixteen).</p>
<p>I am at a very big school and my first 3 years were on block schedule, 4&4. I was able to take 10AP’s. I was also able to take 2 hs math in ms and my languages online. That’s how I got to 10.</p>
<p>I’m extremely fortunate to attend a big school that offers a lot in terms of academic stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever resort to having to self study. I don’t have enough discipline for it anyway.</p>
<p>My school offers 4, available to juniors and seniors only, and an unofficial APUSH course for sophomores and up that isn’t designated AP, but teaches the exact same material. I’m self-studying my other APs.</p>
<p>My school offers five, 1 to juniors and 4 to seniors. However, the maximum class size is 18 students and there’s only one class per AP. At my school, you have AP classes every day for 84 minutes for the first semester, then alternating days the second. </p>
<p>I get what you’re saying. A lot of schools (not all of them, obviously) offer APs that are open to many and aren’t necessarily as challenging as at other schools. I’m taking two this year and that is a-okay with me. Sure, I’m taking Physics and French too, but they aren’t nearly as insane as my AP courses. Now I want to go study…</p>
<p>Not only does my school offer 25 APs… The schedule has 3 90 minute periods and 3 45 minute periods in each day (can combine two of these 45 minuters to make a 90 minute class)… Each quarter you get different periods, and APs except for Gov/Econ are 2 quarters each, so you can have 8-9 APs a year.</p>
<p>And you only have to take on a maximum of 4 APs at a time on the quarter system… But the APs do go really fast… Especially AP Government cramming two courses in two quarters.</p>
<p>I only qualified for two APs this year (at my school you can only take English and Social studies junior year and Calc if that is the correct level for you, but I am in pre-calc). Anyway I did end up signing up for a college class, it is one and a half hours twice a week, with about five hours of homework a week. The rest of my classes are honors and I have leadership positions in most of my ECs. It is completely reasonable (I have As in all but one class right now including my college class). Yes you need good time management but it is totally reasonable.</p>
<p>We offer 11 APs and when I finish high school I’ll have taken 6, 3 junior year and 3 senior year. </p>
<p>We offer AP Euro and AP Gov but those classes don’t run unless more than 10 kids sign up, which never happens because neither class fulfills the NYS economics requirement. AP Macro, on the other hand, runs like 8 classes a year just because it fills both the Participation in Government and Economics requirement.</p>
<p>I would urge you not to sweat the APs. Make sure that when you apply to colleges your HS includes a school profile that details what honors/APs are offered. That will go a long way in putting your class schedule choices in perspective. My son’s HS offers about the same amount of APs as yours…if that many. He will graduate with a grand total of 2 APs and he’s gotten accepted to some pretty darn impressive colleges. I feel a little sorry for some of the kids that post here that feel compelled to pad their schedules with crazy #s of APs!</p>
<p>I’ll graduate having taken only 7 of about 20 (Lang, Lit, Psych, Comp Sci, Physics C, Calc BC, and Gov), but at my school the APs typically have a couple of prerequisites, so you don’t see sophomores or juniors taking four APs, for instance.</p>
<p>I’ll have taken five out of the ten that my school offers. The classes I took were mostly a joke anyway, except AP Lit and Comp because it involves a ton of work and AP Bio because what is even happening in that class, I sure don’t know. I couldn’t fit a lot of them into my schedule and my school doesn’t offer AP to underclassmen. (Yes, my school is stupid.)</p>
<p>Well my school has a 9 period schedule so it is easier to schedule APs. However, I just barely fit 5 into my schedule this year (couldn’t take AP Physics). On the other hand, unless you plan to use all these APs for college credit then taking the amount your taking (because your school doesn’t offer many) should be good enough to get the class rigor check mark.</p>