How many total high school AP courses is normal?

<p>Are you serious? TWENTY-TWO? That's insane. That's absolutely insane.</p>

<p>I think its better to just take classes at a local college or university than AP classes, because, even though they are APs, they are still taught by high school teachers, who, are only on rare occasion, good. I think it shows your academic ability better.</p>

<p>By the time i graduate, if all goes to plan, i will have taken:</p>

<p>10th
AP Spanish
AP World History
11th
AP American History
AP Statistics
AP Bio
AP Chem
AP Eng Lang
Summer after 11 (mainly online)
AP US Gov
AP Micro
AP Macro
AP Calc AB
AP Art History
AP Eng Lit
12th
AP Physics C: Mechanics (maybe e and m, too)
AP European History
AP Psych
AP Human Geo
AP Calc BC</p>

<p>so 18, 19 if the physics teacher decides he wants to teach E and M.</p>

<p>My UW is killng me...too many B+. </p>

<p>I guess no one can say i didnt challenge myself :-P</p>

<p>Oh, this doesnt include my local college courses either...</p>

<p>7 is basically the most you can take at my school. we offer 15, but you can only take ap sciences senr yr, then you have to choose spanish or french, etc.</p>

<p>Since my school has IB, the most AP kids usually take is 3 junior yr, and 4 senior yr, not incluiding an AP language. VERY few students take them. My AP Spanish class next yr will probably have 4 students.</p>

<p>My school doesn't even offer AP language classes.</p>

<p>My High School only offers 6.</p>

<p>AP Economics (Includes both Micro and Macro)
AP Calculus AB
AP Physics B
AP Government
AP English
AP Statistics</p>

<p>I'm currently taking the first three, and I am enrolled in the last three for next year. I'm thinking about self studying a one or two next year. Any suggestions as to which ones?</p>

<p>Depends on what you like or if you are just going for the easy ones :)</p>

<p>Any history can be self-studied without any outside help.</p>

<p>Depends on where your school is.</p>

<p>Where I am, 1 is average, since the school only offers 3. Most people don't take any. (Crappy city high school). Personally, I think it's ridiculously unfair that 1 public school kid can have 20 APs open to him and another can have three. How is that equal?</p>

<p>So, anyway, I'll have taken all 3 by graduation.</p>

<p>it depends on rigor of the school</p>

<p>at mine it would be suicide except for maybe like 5 people..
well they are freaks
but they could probably do it.</p>

<p>I like all, so really, just what would be easiest to self study.</p>

<p>I'm planning on taking 11 in the next three years... which will definitely be difficult (especially with IB!), but I think that somewhere between 8-10 is probably about normal.</p>

<p>do 9th grade pre-aps even count?</p>

<p>in my school about 3 ap's is average...</p>

<p>i will have WAY more than that :eek:</p>

<p>Pre-APs of any sort don't count because they inherently aren't AP-level. They're PRE-AP level. They'll show that your course-load was rigorous, but they don't count as APs in this discussion.</p>

<p>If I take a self-studied AP test and get a terrible score, will that hurt me when I apply to colleges? In other words, should I just not take the test if I'm not sure that I'm ready for it?</p>

<p>normal? 3-4 throughout the school year
CC normal? 10-12</p>

<p>At my school the smart kids usually take ~3-4 APs throughout their high school career. (because they're in IB, so they only get to take them sophomore year).
The kids in the lower tracks take more.</p>

<p>yeah this is an interesting questoin...my school only offers 5 APs and i cant do anything about taking a more challenging courseload. </p>

<p>so i guess i just have to take some college classes online or something.</p>