I’m a sophomore, and I find myself getting so much less sleep in comparison to freshman year. I could almost always rely on 6-7 hours last year, but now that amount is a long night of sleep for me.
I sleep for an average of 4 hours on a school night, and 8 on a weeknight.
I’m a junior and get about 5 and a half hours on week nights and around 9 on weekends. I’d probably get more during the week if practice didn’t offset my homework time so much
Still think that you kids who lose all these hours of sleep just for the name “Advanced Placement” in front of your class are nuts. Do you guys even enjoy your life now? I get that you want to go to Ivy League or MIT or any top tier school, but there should be a limit where you guys just stop and think about your own health. Save all the sleepless nights for college
I’m a junior, and I get about 6-8 hours on school nights, and 8-10 on weekends. I could probably up that weeknight number to 8-9 if I really tried, but I procrastinate and watch Netflix too much
I usually get six hours of sleep on weekdays. If I’m lucky I get seven on Tuesday nights because school starts an hour late on Wednesday (though I usually just use this as an excuse to stay up an hour late).
On weekends I try to get at least nine hours of sleep. Last night I got ten.
Teenagers need about 8-9 hours of sleep in order to let their body/minds recharge. They can cut down to 7 occasionally, but anything below this number is a health hazard. Essentially, you’re deep-frying your brain. :s
It makes me very concerned to read posts such as the OP’s, because it means there’s a problem. It’s as if you were anorexic - depriving yourself of something fundamental and not even realizing the harm you’re doing to yourself.
A major cause for sleep shortage is cell phones - so, put it on “plane” mode at 10pm. Since it’s likely your alarm clock, don’t worry: it’ll ring anyway. DO NOT put your cell phone under your pillow, but rather on your desk.
I usually get 10-12 hours on the weekend, and 5-7 on the weekdays. It’s not so much that my classes are terribly time-consuming all the time (although they can be), but that my ECs last till 4:30 almost everyday.
Please remember that top colleges dislike the “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to AP’s, or, as Stanford succintly put it, “it’s not a game of who has the most Ap’s wins”.
Top colleges expect 4-8 Ap’s total (8 if your High School offers a LOT of them), carefully chosen. You need 5 classes per year at Honors or AP level (total), including 4 years of English (AP English Language strongly recommended), Social Science/history, and Science (including all three of Bio, Chem, Physics + one more, which can be APES or an AP from the previous three or Honors science), plus Math up to precalculus honors or calculus, and Foreign language up to level 4 or AP, plus “personal picks”, ie. choir or cs or something that reflects your personal interests. You can also switch out of one of those if you can continue one subject beyond AP level via dual enrollment (ie., if you can take Spanish Literature at a college, or Linear Algebra, or General physics 1&2.)
3-4 APs would be a good number per year. You also don’t need to letter in three sports - do what you like but not to the point of not getting enough sleep.
Read Cal Newport How to be a high school superstar and see if you can do what he advocates. Or make colleges want you (for the totally non-tippy-top student).
You can also advocate, school-wide, for a later start of the school day - it’s better for all students, overachievers and underachievers alike, as well as schools (better results, fewer discipline problems). http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/should-the-school-day-start-later/ http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/08/why-school-should-start-later/401489/
I’m a senior- ~5 hours on weekdays, 9 on weekends.
I’ll have taken 15 APs by the time I graduate, but my ECs have usually taken up more time than my academics did. For me, the number one reason why I took so many AP classes wasn’t to impress colleges, but because the regular classes have terrible teachers, don’t ever do anything, and have boatloads of discipline issues.
Sophomore, not much work as of now. But procrastination, as usual, takes away some time so I would end up getting maybe 6-8 hours of sleep depending on when I wake up. On weekends I usually sleep 8 or 9 hours.