<p>Its AP Chemistry. However, at my school and many other in the city its a double period. It takes up two classes instead of one.</p>
<p>At MY school it was always "AP Chemistry" and "Honors Chemistry Lab". The second period was not used everyday (once a week?) for actual labs.</p>
<p>Now its being changed to
"AP Chemistry" and "AP Chemistry Lab".
Reason for the change? All other schools in the city/including one of the best in the nation has always had it this way.</p>
<p>Will it be viewed as one or two classes? Yes its twice the work and if I didn't take it I would have taken two more APs in its spot.</p>
<p>My ‘guess’ is that the colleges will look at the number of credits that are awarded.</p>
<p>I.e., a Two-credit Chem Course will be thought of as having twice the amount of work as a One-credit English Course, +/-. </p>
<p>We really need some input from admissions folk here. You, and others, are suggesting that the number of APs is paramount. In other words, Taking AP Lit + AP Economics would be viewed more favorably than AP Chem alone. I’m not sure that this is correct.</p>
<p>Schools have recommendations as to what your HS Courses should be – 4 years english, 4 years math, 3 years language, etc. These are the core HS Courses. Your core subjects should be Honors/AP. I ‘think’ that’s what it basically means. Schools understand that you will make educationally valid choices (including exploring fields where there is no honors track).</p>