<p>What do you do when your school doesn't offer the AP that you want to self-study?</p>
<p>Is your only option to scour the planet for a high school that actually offers it?
Or can you "order" an AP and have your school proctor it?</p>
<p>Well, I wanted to have AP Micro in the school and I started petitions and had a series of meetings with the principal, but my effort failed because it’s difficult to rearrange the schedules.</p>
<p>You can still order an AP exam and take it at your school even if you haven’t taken the course.</p>
<p>Junker is right. If you’re talking about just the test, then you just order it and have them proctor it. I was the only one in my entire school to take Physics B. Just me and the proctor for three hours. If your school won’t do it, they usually refer you to a different place in town to take it. Either way, you should be able to take any AP test out there without too much trouble.</p>
<p>Getting them to form an actual AP class is completely different. You’ll have to go all the way to the district in most cases and get them to actually form the curriculum, get schools to begin offering the class, then get teachers who are certified to teach it to actually teach it. You’d probably want to start the petitioning effort at least a year or so before you wanted to take the class.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>I totally thought that you had to go to a school that already offered the AP course to take the test. This puts my mind at ease; now I can continue on with my studies :]</p>
<p>And yea…I’m just self-studying. I highly doubt my school would consider add an extra AP to their curriculum…</p>
<p>I had trouble getting my school to proctor me for a self-study. But that was because I dropped the AP course the school offers and I wanted to self-study instead. I still don’t understand why they didn’t let me take it.</p>
<p>Did you drop the AP course and self-study the same AP? In that case, I understand the school’s resentment, but they totally could have just let you take it with the rest of the AP class. But if your school didn’t already have the exam…maybe they didn’t want to take the time to proctor you…which is the same situation I’m in. I can tell already, I’m going to have to make a lot of trips to my counselor’s office next year.</p>
<p>My school almost didn’t let me take AP English Language & Comp, even after I had self-studied. It was because they were nervous I wouldn’t do well and since I was the only one taking the test that would reflect poorly on the school. However, I got a teacher to back me and my capabilities, so they let me take it at a high school like 30 min away (which was a pain).
The principal reason that I wasn’t allowed to take this test, though, was because I had gotten into many a dispute with the head of Academic Affairs at my school about certain issues, so she hated me. Luckily, due to a ton of my complaints and other issues, she got fired after this year :). </p>
<p>In the end I got a 5 on the exam, so she can suck it.</p>
<p>haha. Good for you :]</p>
<p>Why did they make you take it at a high school 30 min away though? Did your school didn’t have an available proctor or something?</p>
<p>"Did you drop the AP course and self-study the same AP? In that case, I understand the school’s resentment, but they totally could have just let you take it with the rest of the AP class. But if your school didn’t already have the exam…maybe they didn’t want to take the time to proctor you…which is the same situation I’m in. I can tell already, I’m going to have to make a lot of trips to my counselor’s office next year. "</p>
<p>Yeah… they didn’t let me take it even though they were proctoring other students at the same time… I guess they were just being mean. </p>
<p>Hey, I can’t help it if the teacher’s not the greatest and I could spend my time better.</p>