<p>I'm going into highschool soon, and am wondering, as I am the oldest child and have no experience in this, how many APs are too many? How much time do you usually spend on one?</p>
<p>3 is pretty much the max dat could really be handled..if u go over 3..its getting ridiculous. its not ridiculous if u have more than 3 Ap in senior..but in junior and soph...3 should be the point where its too much. YOu must remember, an AP class gives a hella amount of homework. I remember and i regret taking 4 Ap's ikn junior year...killed me. AP CHem took up 3 hours of hw a day. AP calculus was another 2 hours. and AP english was about an hour..which was a relief and APUSH history was 3 hours not including studying. well..got a C in chem though and on A in english and 2 B's in the combined Ap classes.</p>
<p>dunno...it really depends on your learning style. If you can read through a whole section and learn it quickly you can prolly take more than 3. My friend, who is also a soph is taking 4 APs and getting A's in all of 'em. I'm planning to take 5 junior yr.</p>
<p>Depends on your academic strengths. I know several students (probably math/science oriented kids) who try to take only one really heavy reading/writing class. Although it is not difficult, reading a book and doing a paper each week can really involve alot of time, as can a 40 page term paper. This meant either AP English or AP History. Math and science might go quickly for some but be agony for others. I think you or your parent should speak to the teacher(s) of the potential class(es) and ask about the anticipated work load. You (and they) will be glad you did!</p>
<p>Really, it depends on what your school's like, and which classes you're taking. At my school, in AP Physics, I haven't had a single piece of homework the whole year, but in AP Spanish Lit, I have a crazy amount each night. Talk to some juniors and seniors at your school and find out what it's like for them- they'll know a lot better than us how many you'll be able to handle.</p>
<p>OK..the whole point is, do the AP's dat you wont do bad in. If you are one of those people who love homework and loves studying 10 hours a day, then take all the AP's you want</p>
<p>not really, i took 5 APs two years in a row and i'm far FAR from a crazy homework loving person, and know people who took 6 or 7 that are not like that at all either</p>
<p>mesotired had the best reply...
ask around, consider the teacher/classes at your school, talk to people who have taken the classes, consider your own strengths/weaknesses (ie: if you suck at science, don't load up on AP sciences)</p>
<p>take the max offered(without killing yourself), this is a surefire way pique the adcom's interest</p>
<p>It also is worth mentioning that in most cases, you will have work in a regular level class, too. The issue may just be whether you want more mundane and repetitive work, or whether you prefer more interesting and challenging work. Additionally, the quality of class discussion (and even behavior in some cases) will be better in the AP class because those kids want to be there.</p>
<p>Also an important consideration is the baseline level of work at your school.
If you're going to a school where even regular classes can be challenging, the sort of work load to expect from APs at your school is different from a school where barely passing is considered good on statewide exams.</p>
<p>Regardless, as someone else has mentioned, the social and intellectual quality of honors and ap classes is better than that of regurlar classes.</p>
<p>i dont recommend taking the max. load unless you consider yourself really, really outstanding... but if you are that type, try to take 8 or so, so you can possibly get one year's credit from college.</p>
<p>another_asianboy, lol 8.
that's like almost all the ap's at once lol
not even geniuses do that. </p>
<p>are you trying to kill the guy?</p>
<p>i had 5 junior year and 5 this year. plus i'm a 3-sport varsity athlete and i play an intense level of club soccer from december to august. i'm doing fine.. i say take as many as you can fit in your schedule.</p>
<p>statistics is my easiest one and that takes up a lot of time with homework. calculus .. it's not so much the quantity of work as it is the quality of the work. it's more independent.. humanities (preparation for the english literature exam) is split into literature, art/music, and philosophy. art&music we just have an "artistic expression" at the end of the marking period that are usually impossible. literature, you write 3 papers. philosophy you usually have a "philosophical exercise" at the end of the MP (aka BS). and then we have a seminar grade (this MP i'm in 'Russian Composers of the 19th Century) with groups that you're supposed to work on for the whole marking period, but of course we leave it off till the last minute. so humanities in my school, all the work is bombarded on you within a span of 2-3 weeks. The rest of the MP you have no work but reading, like college. Economics we have no work, nor government, just random debates or papers that are usually pretty straightforward. Honestly, on the average day I don't have much homework, just at the end of the MP we have kids on suicide watch .. lol. Hope that helps</p>