<p>Hey guys, I'm new to the website but y'all seem to give a lot of good advice, so here goes. I'm going to be a junior and the past year I took 4 AP classes (Macro, Lang, CompSci, WHAP) and this year I'm taking seven. Is that too much? Here's what I'm taking:</p>
<p>Lit/Comp, Stats, US History, AB Calc, Physics C: Mechanics, US Gov, Comparative Gov. I'm also taking CompSci AB (not AP anymore, unfortunately) and Multivariable calculus. Think I'm taking on too much? Any advice on how to survive?</p>
<p>You just can’t procrastinate. If you really want to do this, ending procrastination is the best thing. Once you get started on your homework, don’t stop.</p>
<p>They’re all actual classes, but multivariable doesn’t start until 2nd semester. I also may or may not be taking linear algebra, depending on whether or not it’s offered again (right now it’s not).</p>
<p>It is risky, because I know many of my friends who were excellent students and were heading for a good college, then they slipped after taking hard classes, and now their GPA is terrible. Your choice.</p>
<p>The math sequence is just really strange. Calculus AB covers a portion of single variate calculus (a semester in the traditional college) and Calc BC cover that and more (the first and second semester in a traditional calc sequence). Obviously, you’re normally expected to finish single-variate calculus before doing mulitvariate (the third semester), so I do not understand how you can take multivariate without having done Calc BC.</p>
<p>Your schedule doesn’t sound too intense, but I would worry you have too many math classes. Personally, I would drop stat and multi, but if I were to do one of them, it would be stat simply because of the problem of not being well-versed in single variate calculus before multivariate.</p>
<p>Oh, and depending on how your school does US History, CoPo, and US Gov I would drop one of them, just to make it so I wouldn’t have a ridiculous amount of reading hw every night.</p>
<p>The math class situation is weird but if the school is teaching Multivariable calculus, you are a good math student, and if your Pre-Calc class was decent then that should be okay. Depends on how much sleep and social life you want.</p>
<p>it really depends on you. i took 4 ap classes in school and self studied 4 last year (junior year). i procrastinated so much, and it was hell during those 2-3 weeks but i managed to do pretty well. if youre really good at cramming info in a short amount of time, you can take a lot of exams</p>
<p>Gov and CompGov are both single-semester classes at my school, so I shouldn’t have many problems with those. Although I’m not exactly looking forward to APUSH, it’s a generally accepted <em>thing</em> that at my school, juniors just take it.</p>
<p>As far as the math goes, Calc AB students are allowed to take multivariable at their own risk. At my school, Stats has a reputation for being easy, which I hope is true. Math comes fairly easily to me, so I’m hoping it’s all going to work out, but a handful of teachers and my counselor (and my parents, too, to an extent) are slightly concerned that I’m taking on too much.</p>
<p>I took 7 IB classes and AP Psych this past year… I finished high school passing 9 APs, 6 IBs, and 6 dual enrollment classes</p>
<p>I had some 20 tests the first three weeks of May. It turned out really well, I’m coming into my freshman year with 66 credits worth of classes from AP/IB/Dual Enrollment</p>
<p>IMO, It gets to be too many when you have practically no social life, get less then 6 hours of sleep a night, and everything you do in life revolves around school. Don’t get me wrong though, It’s a good thing to take difficult classes and get good grades, but not if you’re dreading each and every day knowing you have some paper to write, test to take, club meeting to go, etc.</p>
<p>However, the following are all equivalent to a semester course each at a college or university (i.e. a year course teaches them at about half the pace of an actual university course):</p>
<p>Stats
AB Calc
Physics C: Mechanics
US Gov
Comparative Gov
CompSci AB (not AP anymore, unfortunately)
Multivariable calculus (this is strange – this normally has a full year of freshman calculus or AP Calculus BC as a prerequisite)</p>
<p>The English Literature and US History AP courses are, in theory, equivalent to whole year courses, although not all universities accept them as such. So these two plus four of the previous set would be roughly comparable to a university student workload in theory (although in practice, universities may not accept all of them since the university courses may be harder or cover more or different material).</p>
<p>It would appear that the original poster is trying to brag. Nobody can comment upon how bad your workload is besides you because nobody but you knows how hard / easy each class is at your school, how much time you can devote to your studies, how much you procrastinate, how much you sleep, and how efficient of a worker you are.</p>
<p>Long story short - only you know if you’re taking too many AP classes.</p>
<p>Aren’t Physics C Mechanics, US Gov and Comparative Gov semester classes?</p>
<p>Anyway, your schedule looks tough simply because of the sheer number of classes. However, you definitely cannot take Multivariable concurrently with AB Calculus. Normally students complete BC first. At the very least, you should have taken AB and take BC concurrently.</p>
<p>Anyway, for some people I’d say even 10 AP classes is doable while for others even 1 may not be. It depends on the school and the student.</p>
<p>I have been browsing CC for a while, and whenever someone asks if their schedule is to hard or time consuming, (for example 6 AP classes), most people respond with “its manageable” or “doable”. Well I was just wondering what would be your example of an “intense” schedule?</p>
<p>“intense” is a schedule with a standard load of APs, say 6 or 7, in addition to two or more college classes that are themselves rather difficult, like Organic Chemistry, Quantum Physics, or most PhD/professional school level classes.</p>