<p>I see things like this all the time, and it frustrates me every single time. How people manage this is beyond me. I see posts about people who have taken upwards of ten AP courses over the course of their high school careers. </p>
<p>At my school, the default is 5 majors and 1 minor per year. Sophomore and Junior Years, you can take an additional minor or major if you are so inclined, but for the most part, the 5 majors and 1 minor thing is set in stone. No AP's are offered freshman year, and only 1 (AP Euro) is offered sophomore year. So right away, the maximum becomes 11 AP's, if one were to take all AP courses across all principles in their junior and senior years. Between Junior and Senior years, you need to take one year of Physics (if you take this AP, you can only take 4 majors), so the max is reduced down to 10 either way. As far as English goes, the only AP is AP Lit, so that makes the maximum 9. As far as language goes, they're is only one AP per language, so that makes the maximum 8. As far as math goes, there are only two AP math courses offered, AB Calculus and BC Calculus and unless you take one junior year and the other senior year, this makes the maximum 7. And that's if you take the hardest level courses available in every principle. </p>
<p>So my question is, how do people at other schools manage to take so many AP courses? Because this boggles my mind every time I see it. Are these restrictions unique at my school or are there other factors at play here? Any answer would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Their school has a lot of AP courses and they sign up for them. I don’t see why this is hard to understand? (Sometimes you can get around arbitrary restrictions by talking to the guidance counselors.)
This year my school only offers four AP classes, but if they offered more people would be able to take more. </p>
<p>At my school, you get 6 classes, each one meets once per day.</p>
<p>2 freshman year, 2 sophomore year, 4 junior year, 4 senior year (AP Physics C and AP Economics both have two AP exams) = 12 classss, 14 exams. It’s not that hard to schedule 14. I know a guy who took 22 by self studying for a bunch of them.</p>
<p>Because some schools like mine offer more than 10. Of course you won’t see anyone at my school that will take or will had taken 14 AP classes. It’s just ridiculous.</p>
<p>It depends on school offerings mostly. Larger public schools in Texas offer a variety of APs. They usually have 7 periods with some flexibility on an 8th. Some of them may not require any preceding classes. Some are considered one semester classes (Psychology, US Govt, two of the economics classes) which give you at least 4.</p>
<p>English will have both language and lit - 2</p>
<p>Math has three - Calculus AB, BC and Statistics</p>
<p>Computer Science</p>
<p>Sciences - Chemistry, Biology, Physics B, C (three physics in total), env science 7 in total</p>
<p>Languages - Assuming one does 5 years, you can do language and lit -2</p>
<p>social studies - European, world, US History, Human Geography</p>
<p>Arts - Art history, Music Theory</p>
<p>An overachieving student typically has no APs in 9th, one or two in 10th, at least 6-7 in 11th and another 6-8 in 12th.</p>
<p>Most do two histories, 4 for language and English (2+4), 1-2 math (6+1), computer science(7+1), art history or music theory (8+1), 2 economics and one US govt ((9+3) and at least two sciences (12+2).</p>
<p>Still stupid. You take 14 different AP classes but how many do you actually need for college? Are you not just looking to impress college? Do you have a social life? Do you get sleep? Do you only care about making your life hard?</p>
<p>Just to clarify, my school offers 18 AP’s… It’s just not possible to take more than 7.</p>
<p>And my point isn’t about scheduling, but rather, about the amount of time in the day. AP courses give on average 1.5-2 hours of homework per night, so I don’t see how it’s possible to take so many in one year (even by self-studying). Maybe the homework thing is unique to my school, but I’m just wondering…</p>
<p>I’ll be taking 12 total I think, but that’s by doing things like self studying one of the exams, and a few are online, and some of them just won’t be all that hard.
J means junior, S means senior O means online</p>
<p>AP US hist J
AP US Gov J O
AP Psych J
AP Comp Gov J
AP English 11 (self study) J
AP Spanish S
AP Stat S
AP Environmental S
AP English 12 S
AP Econ S
AP Calc AB Online S
AP Euro S</p>
<p>@descuff - I’m on pace to graduate with 14 and I could very easily have taken more. If it wasn’t for running and swimming, I’d have more free time than I could even begin to spend. For a lot of people, high school just isn’t that hard.</p>
<p>@HateBeinSober, you obviously don’t go to my high school… Here, AP courses seldom hand out solid A’s and A-'s are only given to about a quarter of the class (which is already comprised of the top 10-20 students in any given subject). I scored a 35 on the ACT on my first try, yet my GPA will likely end up being under 3.7. So don’t even try to tell me that “for a lot of people, high school just isn’t that hard.” Because it’s more like some people’s specific high schools aren’t that hard, and it seems you go to one of those.</p>
<p>I won’t call it stupid. These kids challenge themselves with the highest standard, and in that process they learn good time management skills. DS will have 14 ap exams by the end of junior year. He spends 25+hours weekly on an EC that he can pursue professionally if he wants. He also works part time and participates in school clubs, where he gets social interactions.</p>
<p>His trick is being 100% in classroom. Homework time is focused without social media. If it’s not for the 3+hour a day EC, he will go to bed every evening at 9.</p>
<p>With our schedule (Block, A/B Days, 4 classes per day), it wouldn’t be possible to take more than 4 AP classes per year, since our AP classes meet at the same time every day. Not to mention you can’t take any your Freshman year, and only AP Psych your Sophomore year. That was one of the reasons I picked IB, I just didn’t see the point of only being able to take so few classes…</p>
<p>I’ll concede that I go to a good school, nj2015er. We’ve recently sent people to Dartmouth, MIT and Duke and are consistently ranked in the top few public schools in the state. Our school has AP pass rates well above the national average, but it’s not like our AP teachers hand out A’s like candy. There’s only three As that I know of out of around 80 juniors in AP Language. I’m sure that having really good teachers contributes to how easy I find school, but the majority of it is just time management. If I was less efficient with my work, and I worked hard instead of smart, then maybe I’d struggle. However, nothing you said invalidates the statement that many students have an easy time in high school.</p>
<p>My school offers over 27 AP classes. Most people take <20 throughout high school. Some have taken 7 in a single year. Sometimes freshmen take AP Bio, AP U.S. Government, or AP Human Geography. Sophomores can take AP Chemistry, AP Computer Science A, AP World History, AP U.S. History, AP Statistics, or AP Comparative Government. Juniors and seniors take pretty much any class they want, except for AP English Language (juniors) , AP English Literature (seniors), and AP Macroeconomics/Microeconomics (seniors).</p>
<p>My school has us taking 4 classes a semester, so 8 classes each year; AP classes are year long, so the most one could take would be 4 a year, and we can only start taking them sophomore year (and only 2 are available for sophomores). My school offers 13, so it would be literally impossible for one to take every single one, and with other requirements students must complete, it would make it impossible to take more than 8 even. I’ll be taking at least 3, I’ll probably opt for dual enrollment vs. AP senior year since dual-enrollment is semester.</p>
<p>@NJ2015er, The difference is that our high school allows kids take AP in freshman and sophomore years. DS took 2 in freshman yr, 5 in sophomore yr. I had to sign a consent saying the parents understand the course load, etc. </p>
<p>we have 7 class period a day. so in theory one can take 7 APs in junior year. but since AP BIO and AP CHEM are both double period courses, so 6 appearto be the max a yr</p>
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