<p>Have any of you ever convinced your school to carry a certain AP class before? If so how did you manage to do it?</p>
<p>I would really like to take AP Environmental Science, but it's not offered at my school. I'd really like to convince my school to offer it, there are certainly several teachers capable of teaching it. One girl who graduated last year convinced our school to offer AP Statistics, but she's gone now, and I can't ask for her advice.</p>
<p>Anyone have any ideas? and no I do not want to self study for the exam!</p>
<p>Last year some students convinced my school to offer AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>Find some other people who would be interested in your class and just go talk to your principal or guidance counselor. There is no "trick". If there is a teacher available to teach and others are interested in the class, I don't see why it wouldn't be offered.</p>
<p>Find interested students and a willing teacher. Then talk to the head of the department. We got AP Physics offered next year. A kid I know who really wants to take it cajoled some of the potheads into signing up. They're going to drop it after 1st quarter, when the class is already established. That way, we have the number of students needed for the class to be established.</p>
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<p>Have you actually tried self-studying? Perhaps you're jumping to conclusions before actually trying them. For starters, check out one of the prep books and read it through. That, quite frankly, is most of what you need for the exam. Wait til college for a real education on the stuff.</p>
<p>It's very unlikely that you'll be able to single-handedly persuade a school to offer an AP.</p>
<p>AP Environmental is worthless anyways. At least my teacher is who teaches it makes it seem that way, because he doesn't know the first thing about anything.</p>
<p>But its true that you cannot get credit for doing well on this test for many of the top school.</p>
<p>I convinced my school to offer AP French Lit. I'm the only one in the course but I really wanted to take it. Although, it's in conjunction with AP French Lang. One or two days a week we discuss the books in French and then write essays for HW, its pretty easy. I am thinking about getting my school to do Art History, since I love art history.</p>
<p>Talk to your administrators...
This year our principal decided to cancel our Quantum Physics/ Optics class beacuse only 9 people had signed up for it, which was the exact same amount as the prior year. All 9 kids who had signed up were mad, so we went in to talk to him. He told us that if we got an additional 11 to sign up that it would be offered. It only took us a week to get the extra 11 and now it's going to be offered next year.</p>