<p>im doing 4 aps and an honors course next year. people at my school think im gunna go insane, but little do they know of CC. well anyways, i thought my courses would help alot, but it seems like everyone on here does tons of aps and all of that.</p>
<p>load:</p>
<p>A.P. Physics B
A.P. Bio
A.P. U.S Hist
A.P. Stat
Hnrs English</p>
<p>ill apply to college w/ 10 aps in all for high school. i took ap world already.
is that considered highly rigorous? thats 10 periods, 8 to 4:30 everyday... followed by research until 8 two days of the week, and clubs until 6ish a few other days, and some volunteering on weekends. oh boy.
im also going to self study ap psych and take the exam in may.</p>
<p>ohhh man i hope im not gunna kill myself and end up with an average school come senior year.
opinions / comments?</p>
<p>Most people I know load their junior year with AP's (about the same sort of schedule as yours, except more classes since we have 8 periods a day) and relax a bit during senior, with 2 or 3 AP's. All those AP's senior year are going to **** you off once you finish applications because you'll be stuck working like hell while everyone else is chilling. Not to say chilling is more important than college, but I really don't think you need all those AP's senior year if you're doing them sheerly for number. Pick the 3 you like for senior year, and drop the other two. But then again, you're only a soph (like me) so your senior year schedule doesn't really matter right this second. Your junior year schedule looks typical for a top-level college bound student.</p>
<p>I took a similar schedule this year: 1 CP (Chinese I), 8 AP (BC Calculus, Macro, Micro, English Comp, Physics C, Psych, Gov't), and then Band, Health and PE, and came out of it with two Bs. You can easily do well with 10 over two years.</p>
<p>you took 8 at once? oh man. thats literally impossible for my school.</p>
<p>princess - we have 10 periodss! ap physics and ap bio are two periods a piece, so it all adds up to 10 periods after pre calc, and a mandatory research class i hafta take. </p>
<p>damn.. mabye i can self study psych andddddd govt? i love history anyways</p>
<p>yeah us govt is really easy to self-study (i took it my sophomore yr)
although, your schedule looks really rigorous all ready-- as long as you make good grades in them, your good to go.</p>
<p>Psych and gov are REALLY easy to self-study. I'd cool it with the senior year course load, 3 or 4 APs at most because you will be mad when you have all this work and your friends are partying to celebrate their senior year.</p>
<p>hmm thanks for the input guys; any resources or stuff in particular you could reccommendd for psych / gov, and can i wait until late in the year to start studying or do i hafta pace myself?</p>
<p>Cliff's is good for gov. I used 5 steps for psych but I've heard Barron's is MUCH better. Psych is all memorization, you should be able to do it in about 2 months worth of studying about 2-3 hours each Saturday or Sunday. The gov, I'm assuming you've had some sort of gov class before, is easy because a lot of it is from just general knowledge. I'd give yourself about 5 months, 30 minutes of studying every other day should do it.</p>
<p>Your courseload looks great. I know people from my school with lesser challenging courses and they got into Ivy Leagues. Make sure you do VERY well in them.</p>
<p>Your courseload will not impress anyone when it is strewn with B's and C's. Personally, I think people put too much attention to rigor than needed. The admissions people are just going to glance at your schedule once or twice. What will really matters is how your counselor describes your course rigor in her recommendation.</p>
<p>"least 40 AP classes in order to gain access to ivy applications"</p>
<p>not true. I know people who took well less than the number you suggested and they got into Ivy Leagues just fine...Just note that AP classes are not everything. You need plenty, fine. But you also MUST show your excellence in these classes as well as a heck load of other factors-such as recommendations, ECS, etc.</p>
<p>not true. I know people who took well less than the number you suggested and they got into Ivy Leagues just fine...Just note that AP classes are not everything. You need plenty, fine. But you also MUST show your excellence in these classes as well as a heck load of other factors-such as recommendations, ECS, etc.
<p>This is for the OP. You have too many things. It is better to have 4 AP's with all A's that six APs with all "Bs." I would take 4 AP courses max, and be able to do things more freely.</p>
<p>By the way, do you want to keep your sanity? </p>
<p>You are obviously doing this to get admissions into an Ivy league university, but have you asked yourself if all the things you are doing are worth it. You do not have any real interest in those things, or the reward of getting in might make it look like you have a real interest. </p>
<p>It is better to be happy and to get into a good honors state university program than what you are doing.</p>