<p>Hi, I'll be a senior this year and am signed up for 5 AP courses: Macro, US Gov, Lit, Span Lang, and Bio. I also plan on self-studying World and Psych, both because they're requirements at my choice schools and I find them fun and interesting. That's a total of 7 APs. I am also considering self-study AP Euro for fun, (yes I know it's called a death sentence, but I really love history) but I am worried that it might be too much to handle. AP Euro won't satisfy a requirment at my schools and doesn't apply to my majors (Nursing and Spanish). I'll be working part time, have one extracurricular (one day a week), continue building my art porfolio (a school requirement) and keep up with piano and guitar lessons. AP Euro looks really fun, and I already have APUSH under my belt, so I am just looking for some feed back.</p>
<p>Why did you wait until senior year to pile it on?
Your transcript would have looked better with AP scores from self study sophomore and junior years.</p>
<p>I didn’t know about APs until I was a junior (yes I live in a small town located under a rock), and then I only took APUSH. This is what many kids at my school do, APUSH in junior then loading up senior, this is the only way my school allows us to take APs. I didn’t know you could self study for APs until quite recently anyways. </p>
<p>I am aware of how this looks on my transcript, but I’ve taken many honors classes and started highschool math and science two years early. Despite the way my school makes us load up on APs senior year, several students are successful in getting into Yale, Cornell and RIT. Once in a blue moon there’s a Harvard kid.</p>
<p>well, I self-studied AP Euro last year and got a 4 or 5, I honestly can’t remember. You can take a look at my site about it. it’s under AP info->History->Euro</p>
<p>I promise it’s not that bad, especially if you are interested, however, if you are doing this to help your college app, i don’t think it will do much good.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken AP Euro, but all of the history AP’s are really easy so you should be fine :)</p>
<p>^A blanket statement like that without any experience in Euro yourself is very misleading.</p>
<p>AP Euro, if you like history, is doable. I don’t see the point, though.</p>
<p>Well history isn’t hard in general so the OP should be fine.</p>
<p>Guys I’ve decided to just go for it. If I don’t feel like I’m prepared for the exam, I’ll just not buy one, or if I’ve already bought an exam I could sell it to someone else who does want to take it (you /can/ do that). If I do take it and do poorly, no harm, no foul, I’d already have been accepted into college. I’m not aiming for super hard schools (I’m not ivy material). My first choice is University at Buffalo.</p>
<p>You should be wary of subjective people. I don’t know why people assume if something was easy or difficult for them then it’d be the same case for everyone else. In any case, I think you made the right choice to self-study for the exam. AP Euro was a class I really enjoyed, if anything I took a lot intellectually out of it. Since you’re self-studying you probably won’t go through primary sources like in a classroom setting, but I would invest some time looking into some actual texts (especially from the philosophers).</p>
<p>@Gridvvk Thanks for the feedback, I (for some reason) didn’t think about primary sources, but that’s a great idea!</p>
<p>I don’t know if it is hard or not, I’d imagine that it is mostly memorization of terms/vocabulary, but I have no idea.</p>
<p>Self studies always seem useless senior year, unless its a useful credit</p>