<p>I think the schedule I'm doing next year in 10th grade is a little too easy. You might wonder why I think this if my schedule has 2 1/2 APs...I will explain.</p>
<p>Next years schedule-10th
PE
AP World History
Pre-AP Biology
AP English Language
Accelerated Pre-Calculus (first semester)/ AP Calculus AB (second semester)
Spanish 2</p>
<p>Prospective 11th grade schedule
IB HL English Year 1 (AP English Language)
AP Calculus BC (IB HL Math year 1)
AP US History (IB HL History of the Americas year 1)
IB HL Biology Year 2 (Equivalent to AP Biology)
IB SL Spanish Year 1
AP Art History or AP Chemistry</p>
<p>The reason I think my 10th grade schedule might be too easy is that in 11th grade I'll have the equivalent of 5 APs and I might be very surprised by how hard it is and unprepared because my 10th schedule is easy compared to it. Do you think this will happen? If so I may be able to take an AP science in 10th if I persuade the counselor.</p>
<p>A lot of people make the jump from one or two AP classes to 4 or more the next year - it isn’t too much of a shock. AP World and AP English are heavy hitters in terms of workload, so I think that if you succeed in those classes, you’ll be very well acclimated to the rigor of future APs in terms of course work; the only issue of course would be grasping the more challenging concepts of the tougher STEM APs. </p>
<p>Don’t underestimate the workload that you will be easing into by going from 0-1 AP’s as a freshman to 2.5 as a sophomore. Most sophomores do not have access to any AP’s, so you are already ahead of most students. There is a reason why the percentage of 5’s is so low on tests like World History and Human Geography. It’s because the test takers are predominantly freshman and sophomores. </p>
<p>AP’s are college-level material. Don’t overload before you are sure you can handle it.</p>
<p>@skieurope I’m sure that I’m going to do at least 2.5 APs next year. I took 1 this year, AP Human Geography. I’m sure I’m not going to do below 2.5 APs because my school is a little competitive and I don’t want to drop down in class rank. One person in my class is taking two AP sciences next year and many others are taking an AP science when I am not. I do not want to get behind. I think this school year was pretty easy except for the beginning of the year when I wasn’t used to having so much work.</p>
<p>@skieurope I actually kind of am stressing because many people are doing 3.5 APs next year and I’m gonna get behind in class rank. I don’t think my counselor likes me because she wouldn’t let me take an AP science but she’s letting other people take them.</p>
Different high schools run their AP programs differently. I’ve seen high schools have Calc AB as a prereq for BC. Others require only precalc for BC. While the default length of an AP class is one year, I have seen examples where Physics C, USH, WH are 2 year sequences, and I’ve seen examples of Gov, Psych, Stats, et. al. being semester courses. The College Board can dictate the content of an AP class, but they can’t dictate how much credit a HS assigns to the course.</p>
<p>I took H Math Analysis/AP Calc AB, AP Chem, and AP World History thinking it wouldn’t be that bad of a year. If you get at least 2 hard teachers it becomes A LOT of work. </p>
<p>@SwaggyC Yes, I hear AP World History is very hard at my school if you get a certain teacher but much easier with another teacher. Sophomores in my math class said AP English Lang. was easy and that they didn’t do anything in that class so I’m not expecting that one to be too hard.</p>
<p>And to everyone else, I said AP Calc AB was 1/2 an AP because it is a semester class and because I presume I’ll only get half the weight for my gpa. Not quite sure though.</p>
<p>I took no honors courses Freshman year. I took one sophomore year. Junior year, I took 3 APs, and 3 honors. Ironically, my highest GPA was junior year. Senior year I am taking APs in all the core subjects and more. To be honest, it depends on your teacher. I spent more time on honors chemistry work and whatnot than I did all of my other classes combined. In that fact I was sort of dissuaded from taking AP Chemistry next year, opting for AP Bio instead… If you can get a good climate for how high of standards APs are held at your school (esp. specific classes) that can help you determine if you can “handle” it or not. </p>