<p>I know someone who took 8. 5’s on all of them. She will be attended Princeton.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people would take so many AP’s…Unless you’re THAT desperate to get out of college fast with all the credit.</p>
<p>I mean, seriously. 8 AP’s as a sophomore?! That’s completely unnecessary and pointless, IMHO. You can get into Ivies with less than 8 AP’s in your entire high school career.</p>
<p>5 this year. 5 next year. 2 self studies this year. all ap classes next year.</p>
<p>you guys are ****ing insane. LIVE A LITTLE!
(referring to people with 5+ APs in one year)</p>
<p>Dude…8…good luck with that.</p>
<p>The kid in my grade level is ranked 1/768. He’s taking 6 AP classes (and 1 honors) right now: English Lang, Spanish Lang, Comp Sci, Chem, Bio, and US history. The honors class is Precalculus honors. I don’t know how he does it, but rumor has it that he recites every single word from a prep book he read on the day of the AP exam. Whenever I try to talk he’s basically a lifeless zombie.</p>
<p>I know someone who did 16 overall, and another person I know just finished taking her 7th AP test, her 11th or 12th overall as a junior. Both are alive and bubbly, so I don’t know how they do it!</p>
<p>I’ll have done around 18 by the time I graduate, but next year will be my 4th year taking APs, so I have a head start on some of you guys :p</p>
<p>As for why, it’s because I honestly like the subjects. We are taught pretty much nothing at my school [only kids who pass aps are those who self study], so I guess I just want to learn the material and actually have a challenge.</p>
<p>well my school doesn’t really have a lot of aps. so this year as a junior i only took three. and this other junior i know took four. next year i’ll be taking four in my school, and two or three (idk if i should self study for environmental) at a different school. i wish i could have taken more but its all that my school can offer.</p>
<p>Something like 22, from what I read online.</p>
<p>EDIT: Whoops, I don’t know that person. Sorry.</p>
<p>whoa, 8 AP tests in a year=one dead student by the end of the AP week</p>
<p>I just know some people who are taking 6, and maybe somebody who is a taking 7 APs in a single year.</p>
<p>I hope anyone with 8 will live past exam week. Its HELL!!</p>
<p>I take 7 ap classes and man it is HELL X10, i have one more left. BUT still, it is not pretty.</p>
<p>Haha. I’m still probably gonna take 8, but it looks like I might only be taking microeconomics over the summer after I talked to my guidance counselor. Anybody here taken Micro and Macro Econ at the same time? I was going to do that over summer but my counselor discouraged me and told me to take micro first, and then if i still want to, take macro.</p>
<p>I still might take both though. I swear all my counselor does is discourage me and tell people about getting in to UF. Plus I’ll have a lot more time over summer with just 2 online classes and possibly macro, rather than taking 6 and macro during my senior year.</p>
<p>Don’t do macro or micro. Go with stats and environmental science.</p>
<p>I took nine this year :)</p>
<p>By the time I graduate, I’ll have finished 10: two as a Sophomore, three as a Junior, and the rest as a Senior. </p>
<p>But I won’t say more and just walk out of this thread - seriously, did I hear 16? Someone said 22? Holy mother of God, that’s unbelievable.</p>
<p>This year I have taken 7 AP classes.</p>
<p>Dude, trust me. It is not worth it. No amount of college credit can replace the stress and suffering I have gone through this year. Please, if you are going to take many ap classes, make sure you at least like the class and not taking it just for credit. Please.</p>
<p>If you have any other questions on what it’s like just pm me.</p>
<p>I’ve taken 5 this year and that’s the most at my school</p>
<p>…such a lazy school lol</p>
<p>OP - you should probably only take 2 courses this summer, any more than that is really pushing it. Now first of all, your counselor is probably an idiot. So ok here we go:</p>
<p>1) Take the 2 APs that you are interested in. If you think you’d like Economics, do it. If you’re going to be taking APs over the summer, might as well do Macro and Micro because they overlap and knowing one helps with knowing the other.</p>
<p>2) Don’t you have a university or good liberal arts college nearby to take the summer classes in? It is relatively expensive, but probably worth it, to just go to a school’s summer program. When deciding on which college’s classes to take, generally the more “prestigious” the better. But really, if there’s any school near you that’s above a community college, you should take the class. This is because a) these classes are more challenging the AP and yes, also better looking for colleges, and b) if you get a grade (oh, and shoot for an A of course… no but really, try harder than you do in high school classes) in the course then you definitely do not have to take the AP - an A at a university summer course looks much better than a 5. So it saves you the stress of another AP during AP week and of having to review material you learned months ago</p>
<p>3) Dude, you need a math course. You know when colleges say that they like for you to have 4 years of all the main subjects (English, Science, Math, Language, and History too I guess)? Yeah, it’s true. I’m assuming that both AP Government and AP Psychology are half year courses at your school, so drop them and take whatever math class you place in to instead (probably Calc AB right? Even if you can only place into Precalculus this year, do that. And you should probably take Precalculus over AP Stat although I’m not sure talk to your math teacher).</p>
<p>4) Or wait, maybe AP Gov and Psych aren’t half year courses for you… if they’re not, you should probably drop one, and maybe if you feel like it you could self-study the other during the school year. After all, if you end up taking your summer APs as college courses that’s two less courses that you’ll have to be reviewing for over the course of the year and before the AP tests.</p>
<p>someone at my school took ten last year.</p>