<p>At my school:</p>
<p>Below average: 0
Average: 0
Above Average: 1+</p>
<p>Oh…looks like I over achieved: Exams not Classes</p>
<p>Freshman:
AP Environmental
AP Computer Science A
AP Art Studio 3-D
Sophomore:
AP US History
AP Statistics
AP Psychology
AP Physics B
Junior:
AP Physics c both Parts
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Economics Micro
AP Economics Macro
AP Comparative Govt.
AP English Lang
Senior Year (This year):
AP English Lit
AP US Govt
AP French
AP World History
AP Chinese
AP Art History</p>
<p>At My school:
Below Average: < 2
Average: 3 - 7
Above Average: 8-15
Magna Cum Laudre: 16 -18
Summa Cum Laudre: 19+
Our Valedictorian last year took 25 AP Exams , but he cheated and took 5 language exams</p>
<p>Below Average: 0
Average: 1
Above Average: 2-6 (only six are offered)</p>
<p>My school offers almost all the APs available (except for German, Japanese, and Italian; also, Micro flip flops on being offered depending on who signs up for it, but technically it is offered).
For my school:
Below average: 0-4
Average: 5-9
Above average: 10+
If you take more than 16, you’d have to either self study (though I doubt anyone at my school actually does that) or have insane schedules all four years.</p>
<p>At my school, you’re pretty special if you do ANY. We offer 3 AP classes (literature, us history, biology) but the classes are tiny. </p>
<p>I plan on taking 6 or 7 APs by the time I graduate!</p>
<p>Below average: 0-2
Average: 3-5
Above average: 6+</p>
<p>Above 7-8 is generally only possible if you’re a year ahead in a class (especially math, because then Phys C is open a year earlier as well), because we can’t take APs freshman/sophomore year and APUSH is the only AP commonly taken by juniors. Technically one could take two APs junior year (APUSH and Gov, e.g., or APUSH and Phys B), but I chose to take the prerequisite for Phys C instead. So I’ll have 7 by the time I graduate - APUSH junior year, plus a full schedule of 6 APs senior year. There are at most one or two other people that are taking 6 APs this year.</p>
<p>My school offers somewhere north of 20 APs, but it’s simply not possible schedule-wise to take all or most of them.</p>
<p>My school offers 7 AP classes… Bio, Eng Lang, Calc AB, Chem, Euro, Eng Lit, and Studio Art.</p>
<p>I am taking Bio and Eng Lang as a junior, and self-studying Psych, Env Sci, and Stats.</p>
<p>During senior year I will take Euro, Eng Lit, Calc AB, and Chem. I might self-study BC during senior year.</p>
<p>At my school:
Average: 0
Above Average: 0
OMG YOU’RE SO SMART: 1+</p>
<p>About 10-15% of my school’s typical class graduate with a 3.0+ GPA.</p>
<p>My school offers a total of 11 ap courses right now, and will add one more after this year.
Since the class that is a year behind me (are now sophomores) were offered the chance to take ap euro in replacement of the normal honors world history course my classmates and i were forced to take, it’s rather complicated. also, ap chem is being added to this year and ap environmental science will be added when i am a senior. with that being said, as far as the class that just graduated, the seniors of this year, and my class is concerned, these are the averages:
c/o 2011:
average 0-1
above average: 2+
(we offer a lot of honors courses, like, more than 30 and they are just as challenging as the ap courses)
c/o 2012:
average:0-2
above average: 3+
c/o 2013:
average: 0-2
above average: 3+</p>
<p>i only know, for a fact, that there are 4 seniors that are taking more than 3 ap’s their senior year because they are also in honors classes that are just as rigorous. many of them will have taken 6 ap’s total.
also, there is only one person in my grade who is taking 4 ap classes their junior year. she has literally no life, so she has the time to do it.</p>
<p>by the end of my senior year i will have 4 ap classes and exams taken, and i will also have credit from uconn from doing it’s marine science program, and that will be counted towards college as 3 elective credits, and i don’t have to take any exam(:
i also plan on taking a course at the local community college the summer going into my senior year.</p>
<p>all of this really just matters on the school. at my school (which is a public high school but is ranked in the top 10 systems in my state) my class wasn’t allowed to take any ap courses until junior year. instead, we took honors classes. for example, this year my schedule looks like this:</p>
<p>before school: Honors Advanced Information Technology
p1: AP English Comp
p2: Honors Pre-Calc
p3: AP US History
p4: study hall
p5: Honors Spanish 3 (our school system starts us off in 8th grade but we have to repeat spanish 1 our freshman or sophomore year)
p6: Communications 2
p7: P.E.
p8: Honors Chemistry</p>
<p>even though i know that i’m not taking a course like ap bio (science isn’t really my thing) and i decided not to take ap stats, ap java, or take the summer alg 2 course going before my sophomore year which would put me into ap calc ab (math isn’t my thing either), my course load is still rigorous and i know that i will have a tough time with it.</p>
<p>in my opinion, and no, i don’t care what college admissions officers are apparently “looking for”, it’s more about how well one understands the material and enjoys what they’re learning rather than wanting to jump off of a cliff for deciding to take the class, especially if it means basically having to go through a trial in order to get out of the class.</p>
<p>I think (am not quite sure) my school offers 11 aps. I plan to take 8-9 that will fit me. This year I’m taking one, as a freshman.</p>
<p>I’m worried because my school offers 29 APs (everything but Russian, Italian, and Japanese) but with all the prereqs (no AP Bio/Chem/Physics until Pre-AP Bio/Chem Phys, language APs aren’t until your 5th or 6th year, no APs freshman year and only one or two sophomore year, etc) and the required courses (PE, health, technology/business credit), it’s impossible to take anywhere near everything we offer. If you’re in an elective like me (Drama so I can go on speech tournaments and Journalism so I can be on the newspaper staff) there’s little room left in your schedule for tons of APs.</p>
<p>That said, breakdown:</p>
<p>9th: None whatsoever, unless you were a math prodigy in middle school and manage to convince your counselor to let you into AP Stat.
10th: Avg; (0-1) Above Avg (1-2); Super (3-5)
11th: Avg (1-2); Above Avg (3-4); Super (5-8)
12th: Avg (1-3); Above Avg (4-5); Super (6-7)
Overall: Avg (3-6); Above Avg (7-11); Super (12+)</p>
<p>It’s very dependent on what you finished in middle school. By the end of my senior year I think I’ll have taken about 10 or 11.</p>
<p>24 APs offered.</p>
<p>Freshman:
0: average
1: above average/amazing
Only 1 AP offered</p>
<p>Sophomore:
0: average
1: above average
2: amazing
2 APs offered</p>
<p>Junior/Senior:
0-1: slacker
2: average
3-5: above average
6+: dafuq??</p>
<p>Junior + senior year, you can take as many APs as you want.</p>
<p>I may be able to take 8 - 9.</p>
<p>why someone would take 12+ AP exams is entirely beyond me. I can’t fathom why one would be so dedicated to subsidising the Collegeboard while deriving such little utility from the products purchased.</p>
<p>Saving up to $50,000 by graduating a year early isn’t utile enough?</p>
<p>When you get full rides at top schools, that extra year skip isn’t really needed. Plus graduating a year early is not advisable. </p>
<p>Also, that’s one year you are missing from all the social life.</p>
<p>It really depends on what your high school has to offer. Like at my school there was only 1 AP course available for sophomores. Then, junior year, there was only 4. However, they were all science courses, so it was not possible to fit more than 2 into your schedule. During senior year someone can take up to about 5 (as long as they hadn’t already taken them junior year). Overall, my school only offers 8 AP courses, so it would be impossible for someone to have 9+ (nevermind 15!!).</p>
<p>How you use AP credits completely depends on where you go to college. At many state schools you could easily graduate a year early (I know that I personally had enough credits to be a second semester sophomore), but if you go to a top school, you may get very little for the credits. I got eight 5s including both physics C, and calc BC and one 4 (on Spanish language) but I barely received any useful credits in college. I just took the classes because I wanted to learn.</p>
<p>At my school:</p>
<p>Normal is around 4
Above average is like 7 or 8
Outstanding is 10+</p>
<p>My school, average by graduation
average: 1-2
top 10%: 4-5
top 5%: 7-8
Most: 13(by valedictorian and another guy) </p>
<p>My school pays for about 40% of the cost of an AP exam(so it’s only $50) and then even pays you back your $50 per exam if you pass. Thus, APs are an amazing deal compared to college prices, even if you have close to a full ride.</p>