I can't take any AP classes next year...

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<p>MY school is worse</p>

<p>For AP English Lang And AP English Lit u need to be planning and English or Journalism mayor in college.</p>

<p>For AP Bio u need to take regular Bio and Chemistry first, same for AP Physics, (but instead of bio, take intro physics)</p>

<p>For AP Spanish Language u need the approval of the teacher (who is extremely mean)
and most of the time choses only 10 kids to be in her class.</p>

<p>AP Gov and AP US are about the only fair ones where u take a test, interview the teacher and there, you're in.</p>

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<p>Our school just has prereqs for AP clases (ex: bio before ap bio, physics before ap physics, chem before ap chem, etc.).</p>

<p>If your parent's can't do anything, then trying getting a partial and just enroll in your CC for the second half of the day...</p>

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<p>4.0 thats ********</p>

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<p>funny how all of you think this is unusual..D1 went to public; very similar requirements for AP classes; D2 is in private; they won't even let her in honors classes with a high B in regular....</p>

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<p>At my school we have the opposite problem. Everyone is let into APs who want to no matter their average, and then kids either fail miserably which is bad or the whole class has to slow down for them.</p>

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funny how all of you think this is unusual..D1 went to public; very similar requirements for AP classes; D2 is in private; they won't even let her in honors classes with a high B in regular....

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<p>If all of us think it's unusual and you have one example where your "D1" and "D2" (which sound more like robots than children) went to two schools with requirements like this, isn't it more likely that this is not usual?</p>

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<p>millancad: 1) the reason I abbreviate "daughters" is b/c I am recovering from shoulder surgery
2) all schools that have strict requirements for admission into honors and Ap's should explain that on their school profiles
3) those schools that let everyone "waltz" into advanced classes should note such on their profiles as well
4) until I started posting on CC, I had no idea there were schools like #3...unfortunately, those of us with students in schools like #2 found out the hard way during college admissions season.....</p>

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<p>"At my school we have the opposite problem. Everyone is let into APs who want to no matter their average, and then kids either fail miserably which is bad or the whole class has to slow down for them."</p>

<p>wow, exact same problem at my school. some classes don't slow down though, resulting in people failing even more miserably. fortunately, we have classes that are above ap level, so i am in one of those.</p>