<p>How many APs did you take or plan on taking?</p>
<p>What APs are offered at your school?</p>
<p>Took:
AP US History
AP European History
AP Bio
AP Chem
AP Calc AB (prereq for BC)
AP Calc BC
AP English Lang & Comp
AP English Lit
AP Environmental
AP Physics (only mechanics offered)
AP French Language</p>
<p>Offered but didn’t take:
AP Stat
AP Econ (both)
AP Spanish Language
AP Italian Language & Culture
AP Studio Art</p>
<p>^^ long list! Not everyone can do that in their high school. My daughter’s a junior at MIT now, and she took 7 AP courses at her school. Her school didn’t allow freshmen to take AP classes and didn’t allow students to double up on science courses. In the context of that large public high school, 8 AP classes is the most a student can take. She might have taken AP French had it been possible to take French 4 her junior year. However, she skipped French as a junior and took it up again as a senior when it fit into her schedule. That is another common problem at some large schools; overcrowding and scheduling problems can make it impossible to enroll in all the courses you’re qualified to take. </p>
<p>MIT understands all of this. The admissions officers just want to see that you’ve challenged yourself in the context of your school.</p>
<p>Took:
AP European History
AP US History
AP Physics B
AP English Lang
AP English Lit
AP Chem (online course b/c school didn’t offer it)
AP Computer Science A
AP Comparative Gov’t
AP Calc BC</p>
<p>Offered but didn’t take:
AP Spanish (was studying Italian, which didn’t have AP at my school)
AP Environmental
AP Bio
AP Studio Art
AP Music Theory
AP Calc AB
AP US Gov’t</p>
<p>My school required 2 periods every day for AP sciences, which made it difficult to take more than one with a variety of other classes. We also couldn’t take AP’s as freshmen and were only allowed to take AP Euro sophomore year. Only as juniors and seniors were we allowed to take other AP classes.</p>
<p>I took 6 AP classes (US history, US Gov’t, Stat, Calc AB, Eng Lit, Span Lang) out of 8 offered at my public school, am headed to MIT next week.
Some people are crazy! How do you have time for anything except studying with ~20 AP classes?
Colleges do want kids to be well-rounded, not just have impressive numbers of courses…</p>
<p>I entered high school as a junior after not having had any type of education for five years. They would only let me take one AP course, AP Physics B. I got a B, worked hard at college courses all summer, and now feel ready to take on the AP limit of AP Calc BC, AP Eng, AP Chem, and AP Gov/Econ. I’m worried most about AP English though.</p>
<p>Holy snap. That’s a lot of APs. </p>
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What are the AP tests like?
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<p>I took three AP classes: English Literature, US History, and Government.</p>
<p>AP courses taken/taking:
AP US History
AP Chem
AP Physics B
AP Physics C
AP Calc BC
AP Statistics
AP Gov/Econ
AP Psychology
AP Language</p>
<p>AP courses offerered that I didn’t take:
AP Bio
AP Lit
AP Calc AB
AP European History
AP French/Spanish/German
AP Studio Drawing
AP 2D Art
AP Music Theory
AP Computer Science</p>
<p>IB ftw! Seriously.</p>
<p>Took:
AP Biology
AP Calc BC
AP Environmental Science
AP Macro
AP Micro
AP Psych
AP US Gov & Pol
AP English Language</p>
<p>School only offers biology and calc AB but I was able to take some online classes and self-study</p>
<p>I took all offered…</p>
<p>AP Lit
AP Lang
AP Calc AB
AP Bio
AP Euro
AP US Hist
AP Gov
AP Spanish</p>
<p>Took/Taking</p>
<p>AP US history
AP calc AB
AP calc BC
AP biology
AP european history
AP english
AP physics B
AP human geography </p>
<p>Offered:
AP Calc
AP Bio
AP microeconomics
AP stats
AP environmental science
AP human geo
AP US history</p>
<p>my interests differ a little from what my school offers, so AP physics and AP european history are independent studies, AP Calc BC online through northwestern.</p>
<p>lol, the MIT app lets you put on a max of 12 aps on the page</p>
<p>Wow. You guys have so many APs offered!!!</p>
<p>Wait - Is taking AP Calc AB and BC a waste of time? My math department head said that Calc BC would be enough.</p>
<p>^BC covers the entire AB curriculum, plus series and some extra topics, so taking both requires repeating a lot of material. A lot of people who took both had to do so because their school requires them to take AB before BC.</p>
<p>Did you take both?</p>
<p>No, I only took BC, but I had a bunch of friends who took AB, and we often had the same work. My teacher kept my class informed on where we were in relation to the AB class, and when we were doing topics that were only for BC.</p>
<p>Took:
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB (BC not offered)
AP Computer Science A
AP Macroeconomics (micro not offered or else I would have so taken that)
AP English Language
AP English Literature
AP French Language
AP French Literature
AP U.S. Government & Politics
AP Physics C (only mechanics portion offered)
AP Statistics
AP Studio Art
AP World History</p>
<p>Offered:
AP Chemistry
AP Computer Science AB
AP Environmental Science
AP European History
AP Latin: Vergil
AP Music Theory
AP Psychology
AP Spanish Language
AP U.S. History (I took at a community college instead)</p>
<p>@ Vivi, I’m going to assume that you there were two AP English and Frenchs?
=D</p>