<p>Hi, I'm currently a freshman in high school. I was planning on taking AP Bio, AP Chem, AP World, and AP Spanish 4 next year, but I don't know if this is too much work to handle. How many APs do most people take in 9th grade?</p>
<p>All students who managed to get -1 AP classes got accepted to Harvard.</p>
<p>Most people never take any AP classes at all. </p>
<p>Do you have the prerequisites for all these classes (probably regular chemistry, regular biology, and Spanish III)?
What does your guidance counselor think?</p>
<p>Personally I’d recommend taking AP Chem some other year. </p>
<p>Most people do not take an AP class in 9th class. I recommend you do not take both AP Biology and AP Chemistry. 3 would be plenty for 10th grade.</p>
<p>AP Spanish 4 exists?</p>
<p>The courseload seems excessive to me. R.I.P @loka123 's social life.</p>
<p>Presumably they mean AP Spanish Language. </p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I disagree with some of the information in the post. While it is true that maybe most high school students do not take AP or if they do, it is only one or two, most high school student’s can barely meet basic graduation requirements.</p>
<p>Most high schools that do college prep or are magnet have their high school student’s taking AP’s first year, specifically AP Human Geography. If you want to be AT ALL competitive, you need to take it.</p>
<p>If you do not take AP classes when they are available to you your chances for being accepted will greatly lessen for most major colleges.</p>
<p>@apandia I think she meant “4” as in “for.”</p>
<p>And don’t overload yourself. Do what you can think you can handle. You will find plenty of students that by sophomore year have contributed majorly to research or their community of staggering levels. However, that doesn’t mean you have to overload yourself until you drop. Do what you think you want to do and on the level for which you need to meet your future college goals.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is ASK other students in your school about the AP courses. For example, in my school, the teacher AP Bio is insane and most of the smartest students in the state can’t get A’s. The class is known as the suicide class because of its difficulty. AP US history in my school has simple material but the homework is hours every night. Pairing these two would be horrible in a schedule. These are the sort of questions to ask about so you can plan accordingly. </p>
<p>Good luck :)</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your help! Yeah, I do have all the pre-reqs for these classes (I’m taking chem over the summer and I’m currently taking Spanish III and bio). I want to try for competitive schools, and I’ve heard that people should take at least 11 APs in high school to get into top colleges. Lol, I know my social life is going to suck haha. I’m mostly worried about AP World, as I heard it is one of the hardest in my school. I’d rather get a 4.0 GPA than take another AP course, so I’m trying to talk to other people who have taken it. Also, AP Spanish IV and AP Spanish V are two different classes, but I guess it’s just for our school. I think AP Spanish IV deals more with fluency, and AP Spanish V with literature comprehension.</p>
<p>I wasn’t implying that someone could get into a highly selective college without taking challenging classes when they’re offered. If you’re applying to selective colleges you’ll have to compete against above-average people. Even so, most selective colleges aren’t as selective as the top 20 or so in US News, and you can get into them without accomplishing anything insane (e.g. contributing majorly to research). And whether or not you took AP classes as a freshman (uncommon even for people on here) is probably going to be immaterial no matter where you’re applying…your acceptance or rejection will be contingent mostly on what you accomplish in later years. </p>
<p>Freshman-1
Sophomore fall semester-2
Sophomore spring semester-3</p>
<p>^How many APs I took</p>