<p>^Some schools don’t allow you to do that. Mine didn’t.</p>
<p>They’re usually for the geniuses who were pretty much destined for Ivies doing it to stroke their ego and to impress other people with their smartness.</p>
<p>We can’t take any freshman year and only 1 soph year. Junior year you can only take 3 or 4 and then senior you can take as many as you want (most take no more than 5).</p>
<p>We have 20+ AP classes and the way they create our curriculum it ends up this way.</p>
<p>I am only taking 3 junior year. Macro, Micro and Chem. our school makes it hard because Math and Language can’t be AP until senior year. And we have annoying elective graduation reuirements, most of which cant be an AP.</p>
<p>It is important to be vocal and go through PTA or something if your school administers APs but does not want to participate in non-taught ones. They do have a responsibility to the students.</p>
<p>At my school, almost no one self-studies APs. I think I’m the first to even attempt in the past 4-5 years.
I didn’t mind all that much.</p>
<p>By the end of our senior year, my friend will have taken 15 AP classes … and by the end of our JUNIOR (this) year he will have taken 16 or so AP tests. You can do the math.</p>
<p>So yeah, some schools offer a lot of APs. But there’s always that option of studying any number of them as well.</p>
<p>The AP State Scholars from the northeast must have the record for most APs ever taken. I wonder what the record is.</p>
<p>I think by the end of high school I will have taken at least 17 AP exams. But my school’s a magnet so they offer almost every AP class. There are almost never schedule conflicts because there are multiple periods for everything.
9th: Human Geography
10th: Calc AB, World History, Computer Science
11th: Spanish Lang(self study), English Lit, US History, AP Physics B, Chem, Calc BC, Government (Taken over the summer)
12th(projected): English Lang, Spanish Lit(self study) AP Environmental, AP Physics C(Both), Statistics, AP Art 3D and Macroeconomics, and possibly AP Biology</p>
<p>My god. Do you enjoy life? Like go out on weekend? Or just read a nice book on the weekend. Why does it feel like people with 10+ AP feel like they’re trying to desperately prove something?</p>
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<p>My school offers around 20 APs. Are all of those classes taught by good teachers? No, I’ve had to self-study considerably for many AP classes that were easy to get an “A” in, but didn’t prepare you properly if you wanted a 5 on the exam.
I believe my school gets a certain amount of money for every student that takes and passes the AP exam, which is why they push the students to take APs. Seriously, they’ve been getting rid of many honors classes, essentially forcing the students that would have taken those into AP classes that they’re not really ready for. It makes me a little mad, students are different, when are we going to understand that one size fits all doesn’t work?
So it’s pretty normal for someone to graduate with upwards of 14 AP credits. When I graduate (assuming I pass all the exams this year and next year) I’ll have taken 18 APs. The only process students have to go through to take APs in my school is literally putting down a checkmark on there course registration. What then occurs is a lot of students are taking AP classes they’re not academically or mentally prepared for, they fail, and, of course, their mommies and daddies blame the teacher. If your kid isn’t ready for the class the teacher can’t do anything about it. I know at other schools it’s different; you can only take two or three AP classes per year and you have to apply to get into them, which is why colleges take into account what opportunities you have at your specific school.</p>
<p>Descuff, I think you’re way overestimating how hard a lot of AP classes are. It’s not some kind of stressful nightmare like you imagine. I do very little actual work. Like I’ve said, if I didn’t swim and run, I’d have upwards of 5 hours free every single day. I just don’t work that hard at school. To answer your questions, yes, I enjoy life. Yes, I go out on the weekends. No, I don’t read books on the weekends,</p>
<p>NJ:</p>
<p>My son took 14 AP classes.</p>
<p>He graduated from high school a year ago.</p>
<p>However, don’t fret.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem that taking so many AP courses did him much good in the college selection process.</p>
<p>He got waitlisted at many schools.</p>
<p>So based upon this, I don’t think that the number of AP classes you take is that important.</p>
<p>^^^ This. Colleges just want to see you challenging yourself, and AP’s are just one infinitesimally small fraction of that picture.</p>
<p>My school offers about 10 AP’s and we’re limited at 2 per year - and only in Junior/Senior year. They really emphasize that we should only take AP’s in classes we’re really interested in. Most of the “regular” classes are at the same caliber - just w/o the added stress of AP exams. It really depends on the school and the coursework.</p>