4 AP’s, a sport, lots of extracurriculars. 3-5 hours weekdays, eleven on Friday night, nine on Saturday night (I sleep in lol), and around 1-2 hours Sunday night
Junior, 2 APs. 4-6 on a weeknight and 10 on weekends. I procrastinate
Senior, will have taken 16 APs by the end of my high school career, and I typically get about 6-8 hours a night. It’s all about prioritizing well!
4 APs, good amount of ECs, and I get 6-8 every night. It’s certainly not bad if you manage your time well and stop procrastinating.
Ok, the Mom in me just has to say it: “where are these parents who allow high school sophomores to sleep less than 7 or 8 hours each night consistently”? I know they can’t make you SLEEP but they can demand lights out, phones off, which will naturally help. I agree with MYOS1634 that this lack of sleep is a health-hazard and science backs that up. If you can’t keep up with everything you do and still get at least 7-8 hours of non-electronic relaxation, preferably sound sleep, you need to drop something. You have too much on your plate.
The stupidity of people in charge of high school education shows here. Teenagers naturally tend to stay up later and wake up later. But of course, HS has to start super early to deprive teens of sleep.
2 AP 1 honors, 6ish hours. Not really because of school work, I have trouble falling asleep before 12
2 Ap’s and sports/ECs i get as much as i want on Saturday’s and 8-9 Sunday’s and about 7-8 weekdays with the daily 2-3 hours procrastination before bed, in theory i could get 11 hours but nah youtube is more important
HS Senior 5 APs
5-8 hrs
Junior, 5 full-year APs, two hours of sports every day
About 4 hours of sleep a night. Not from homework, but from procrastination; on days where I’m feeling motivated, I can catch 10 hours with ease ^^
I’ll repeat: 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).
Imagine if your campaign convinces the school board! What an achievement to report for your college application, and in the meanwhile, how much good it’ll do for you, your classmates, and all the youngsters in your district for years and years!
Here are examples and points to make:
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/
@MYOS1634 Ehhh, I would, but my principal only cares about test scores and football, and ignores almost everything else. She would not care what I (or almost any other student) would say, unless that other student was one of the 2 36 ACT people or a football player. Half of the people I just mentioned are graduating, anyway…
That’s not how you go about it.
First, your principal has zero power over this. You have to go to the school board.
Second, you need your classmates’ support.
Then, you need to have precise data - a surveymonkey survey that differentiates between freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, number of Honors, Honors+AP, all AP, activities… then hours of sleep. Then possible schedule changes.
You’ll need to rally your classmates (ALL groups and classes), and the PTA, which means anticipating objections.
etc, etc.
When I see the percentage of students who get 8-9 hours (ie., what their body and brain need), it makes me wonder why students haven’t tried to organize before or tried to get their parents and schools onboard with a later schoolday start.
7 AP Classes this Year
7-8 hours of sleep. Sometimes 5-6 if I procrastinate and have to cram something.
@MYOS1634
My county actually had a push to move back starting times, but in the end school was only pushed back by 20 minutes to 7:45, but buses pick up students at 7.
One of the proposed plans would have made school start at 8:55, but that was quickly shot down. 
In Loudoun County, VA, elementary schools start at about 7:50, middle schools at about 8:30, and high schools at about 9-9:30. I am jealous.
Starting at 8:30 or 9:00 actually makes a lot more sense to me, especially since in the winter it means not standing around in freezing weather in total darkness.
Sophomore, 2 APs and 3 honors, i can usually get 7-8 hours but it depends
My minimum to actually survive the next day is 7 hours and a half, but… typically nowadays it’s more like 6. During the college app season right now, it’s often been 4-5!
If that one f-ing assigns hw, 6 hrs. If not 9. that one teacher always assigns boring+long assignments.