<p>My school is super hard. They offer 8 APs and its hard to get into them. YOu can't just sign up for them, you have to pass the pre-requisites for them. It is also very hard to pass the pre-requisites for them. I have taken no APs but have taken 3 honors courses and currently are taking 2 honors courses. I will take two more next year: making my total 7 honors courses in span of four years. My school offers 10 honors courses and I will have take all but the English's I, II, and III. These english classes are the hardest to get into and I tried but was not accepted. :(</p>
<p>I am planning to take the AP Bio Test and the AP US Histroy Test at the beginning of May. My plan is that if I pass it with a 3 or more, I will not sign up for the course of AP. Do you think that this is a good idea?</p>
<p>back to the question: How many APs does your school offer and is it easy to get into them?</p>
<p>My school offers 7 APs and they’re pretty easy to get into. My school has a “policy” where they won’t deny anyone the chance to possibly earn college credit, so anyone can take any AP course. There are no real prerequisites besides passing the year before in that subject. They’re fairly self-selecting–for the most part only the people that can handle it take them.</p>
<p>Ironically, honors courses are actually harder to get into because they limit class sizes; you have to have good grades and be recommended by your teacher.</p>
<p>Calculus AB/BC/BC+, Biology, Physics B/C, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Psychology, Chemistry
(Might be missing one or two, but I think that’s it.)</p>
<p>It’s easy to get into pretty much any of them. For the math AP’s you must move on to that level by doing well in your previous math class. Physics AP’s, you sign up and the top grades get in where they want. (This isn’t that hard though.)</p>
<p>The rest, if there’s room you’re in. However seniors get priority, and you can’t take APs until junior year. All of the core classes at my school are honors.</p>
<p>We have a few AP’s:
-AP English II / III
-AP World History / US History
-AP Calculus
-AP Chemistry (some years…not this year)
-AP Physics B and C (the mechanical or magnetism or whatever C is.)</p>
<p>I think that’s about it. 90% of our students speak Spanish at home, but we don’t offer AP Spanish since those that can easily pass it take it without the class, and those that wouldn’t be able to pass it are Pre-AP/Regular level. Go figure.</p>
<p>Some counselors will tell you you need Pre-AP before the course, others don’t care, and some it varies by course.</p>
<p>For example I know people have been told to take Physics Pre-AP before AP Physics, but AP WH and AP USH, and all the AP English classes you can basically get into by requesting them.</p>
<p>We require testing to get into Dual Enrollment classes though…the THEA or our TAKS score exemptions.</p>
<p>We have:
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Physics
AP English Lit
AP Spanish
AP French
AP Spanish Lit
AP French Lit
AP Human Geography
AP European History
AP US History
AP US Government
AP Calc AB
AP Calc BC
AP Music Theory
…and I think that is it, but I could be missing a few so that makes 15. </p>
<p>With our school anyone can take an AP class as long as you passed the class beforehand because they want to let everyone have an opportunity to take college level classes if they want. But normally, the only kids who want to take it are the kids who do relatively well in school and/or are willing to work hard because they like the subject. So bottom line, you can take as many as you want, and it is super easy to get in.</p>
<p>That is too bad moviefreak that there are so many hurdles to jump over just to get into an AP class. Good luck!</p>
<p>They’re pretty easy to get into, only people who can handle them take them anyways.</p>
<p>AP Calc AB/BC
AP Chem
Bio
Phyics [combined into one class- take both tests]
Lang
Lit
Spanish
French
World Hist
US Hist
US Gov
Comp Gov
Psych
Stats
Enviro Sci
Comp Sci</p>
<p>APES, Lit, and Compsci are cancelled pretty much every other year because not enough people sign up, though…and if there’s one that you want to take but it’s not offered, kids sort of just find a teacher that’s willing to do an independent teach, and essentially make up their own “class” (though it’s really usually just one teacher/one student), and it’ll show up as that class on their transcript…so essentially all of them are offered.</p>
<p>We take a test in our freshmen year to determine if we can take APs during our 4 years in high school, with the exception of AP Calculus BC and AP Comp Sci A/AB.</p>
<p>We have:
AP European (Soph) took
AP US History (J)
AP Psychology (J, S) took
AP Economics (J, S)
AP Chemistry (J)
AP Biology (J, S) took
AP Spanish (J, S)
AP French IV (J, S)
AP Calculus AB (J, S) took
AP Calculus BC (J, S) took
AP Computer A (J)
AP Computer AB (S) took
AP US Government (S)
AP Physics B (J)
AP Physics C (S) took
AP English Literature (S)
AP English Language (S)</p>
<p>We only have 8 and you have to fulfill pre-requisites before you can be considered and we have to get a final approval from the dept chair. Oh and taking the test isn’t an option, if we take the class we have to commit to taking the test.</p>
<p>My school is in the process of scrapping our AP courses, which I fully support. We’ll still offer a few in math/science (AP Physics C, AB/BC Calc, and AP Stat will remain) but every AP in the humanities is goin bye-bye for good.</p>
<p>Instead of getting to take AP U.S. history junior year, we’re all required to take an equally rigorous class called American Studies that synthesizes English III and American history/AP US. My class was the first to take this new course and I think I got a ton more out of it than I would have with AP US. </p>
<p>Instead, each department has formulated a selection of honors courses designed by our faculty. I go to a very rigorous private school in Oklahoma that is fortunate enough to have the resources to embark on something this bold. I wish the public schools in my area could afford to do this because I think AP courses, especially in the humanities, are a cancer in secondary education.</p>
<p>We have 14 (though that’s including art and languages). For each one, you have to meeting eligibility requirements (typically B+ or A in the previous honors course and teacher’s rec) and then take an entrance exam(a few don’t have entrance exams).</p>
<p>Well this year we only have 7, but next year we’ll have 9: for next year:</p>
<p>Bio
Chem
Phys B
Calc AB
Eng Lang
Eng Lit
Stats
World History
US History</p>
<p>I’ll have taken all of them by the time I graduate, (4 this year, 5 next year). I’ll be the only kid doing all 9 so I pretty much have an easy road to valedictorian.</p>
<p>It’s somewhat difficult to get into APs. You need to have A/B in a lower equivalent, some classes require you to have an interview and a pretest. Like for Bio, I had to get a 70% or better on some test to sign up for it for next year. For the AP English classes you have to get interviewed and tested.</p>
<p>For me it’s not difficult to get into the APs, but for some other people it is. lol all the AP teachers know me so they don’t even bother asking me if I got an A in the prereq course.</p>
<p>According to our district website, my school offers:
�� AP Art History
�� AP Studio Art
�� AP Biology
�� AP Comparative Government
�� AP Music Theory
�� AP World History
�� AP U.S. History
�� AP English
�� AP Psychology
we do have to have prerequisities (sp?) to get into an AP class.
tho they are more strict about how many AP’s you can take when youre an underclassmen (frosh & soph). And also, they usually alternate the AP courses. Ie, Ap Psych is offered every other year, AP Art every 2 years, etc etc.</p>
<p>about 10 APs, but in actuality it’s extremely difficult to get into them and teachers will actually discourage you from taking more than 2 a year (even if you are top 5%, etc). Also, a lot of them are conflicting (like AP Spanish and AP French when you can only take 1 language, and AP Music Theory and AP Art Portfolio when you can only take 1 fine arts course)</p>
<p>So, as I’m unaccelerated in math and there’s no Latin AP offered, I can take 2 APs junior year and 3 senior year.</p>
<p>If you’re accelerated in both math and spanish, you can take 2 junior and 5 senior
The maximum you can take is if you are accelerated in math, science, and spanish (about 2 people every year) which would be 3 junior and 5 senior</p>
<p>AP Stat, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Art History, AP Studio Art, AP Music Theory, AP French Lang, AP German Lang, AP Japanese Lang, AP Spanish Lang, AP Spanish Lit, AP Latin Vergil, AP English Lang, AP English Lit, AP World Hist, AP US Hist, AP Euro Hist, AP US Gov combined with AP Comparative Gov, AP Psych, AP Computer Science = 25</p>
<p>You don’t really have to do anything to get into them, but it’s suggested you have certain grades. Some require prerequisites (CompSci, the sciences), but others (e.g. history) are in place of the normal history for that year.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the APs are often limited by year. You can;t take any as a freshman, and only AP World and AP Art Hist as a sophomore (though I didn’t take AH because I wasn;t aware it was available to 10th graders). The rest are, in general, available to juniors and seniors, but you can;t go take Gov as a jr because Gov is a sr course. Really wish they’d let prepared freshmen/sophs take more. I’ve took 1 soph, 3 jr, and 4/5 [combined gov] sr. Could have taken more if my schedule didn’t put all my APs one one day and my easy classes on the other.</p>
<p>We have 21 and as long as we have the prerequisites, we can enroll in them. A lot of the teachers encourage us to take multiple AP’s (I am taking 5 this junior year and took 3 sophomore year).</p>