<p>ansar, for the most part I agree. It differs for every college though. Dartmouth for example, will accept your APES of a 4 or 5. McGill (Montreal) and Boston University will accept just about any test if it is a 4 or 5. For those Ivy-League schools, for the most part, they won’t accept APES or AP Gov.</p>
<p>Hi motivated_101, did you already take the exam? If you did, was the material you used enough? Oh, and since I’m taking the test for college credit (the college I’m interested in only accepts a 5) did you do well even though you self-studied?</p>
<p>runningwriter: same here, my school only offers APs to juniors… I’m self-studying a buttload too 
but I was talking about only your senior self-studies. Only self-study the ones that your college will take credit for, cuz by May of senior year you’ll know where you’re going. It differs with every college; each one accepts different APs for credit so you have to look it up on their websites.</p>
<p>Ohhh…I understand now. That’s smart thinking mulberrypie :)</p>
<p>I’m thinking of self-studying for AP Bio and APES. My courses this year are:
AP Chemistry
AP Physics B & (probably) C
AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
AP English Literature (Only will take if I get too low a score on Eng Lang this year)
AP Latin Vergil (Only if too low a score on Latin Lit)</p>
<p>Does this seem ok? Even with self-studying?</p>
<p>Salve, don’t self-study AP Bio. I’ve heard that Environmental Science is pretty easy to self-study for, but there’s no reason to kill yourself with AP Bio, especially since your already taking 6 other AP’s.</p>
<p>But my sister is a Bio major going for her PhD and I can’t get credit for Env Sci unless I take AP Bio too at my (possibly) future college.</p>
<p>Ahh, well then…good luck with that. It’s definitely possible, just might be difficult.</p>
<p>Ya I know, thanks though.</p>
<p>Wow you guys are hardcore. I’m only self-studying AP Spanish Lit (although that might be a lot of work).</p>
<p>AP languages are always annoying plumdum. Have fun though. I took AP Latin so I know nothing about Spanish…</p>
<p>Has anyone self studied stats with a single book and gotten a 5?</p>
<p>I’m gonna self-study Comparative Gov for sure and might also do Psych or something else.</p>
<p>whitesox24, definitely do psych. If you have a book and actually go through it and take the tests in the back it is not hard. Try out barron’s and maybe add princeton review on. Comparative Gov might be good, but some colleges don’t really give it anything. Look at the college your interested in and the program and that will give an idea of what you should take. You probably are already doing that though.</p>
<p>Thanks, salve! for all the great help. I love your username by the way, did you possibly take Latin? ;)</p>
<p>Ha, Latin is definitely where it’s at!</p>
<p>Awwwww yeah Latin FTW!!!</p>
<p>I’ll be doing Bio, Microeconomics, and English Lang. & Comp. next year.
I did Physics B this year and got a 4. Kind of disappointing but definitely one of the harder APs to self-study.</p>
<p>Just curious (and I didn’t have time/energy to read the whole thread, so sorry if this question has already been asked), but why do you self-study AP classes?
An honest question, I’m not trying to insult people or anything.
Is it because it’s not offered in school? Not enough room in your schedule? Just curious about the subect?
Do colleges like self-studying?
What is the point exactly?</p>
<p>I’m self-studying because I want to get National AP Scholar. That requires 8 APs with a score of 4 or higher on all of them. I didn’t know about it until this summer and my school doesn’t offer APs till junior year. (I’m an incoming junior)</p>
<p>The APs I’m self-studying are all not offered at my school, and even if they were I wouldn’t have enough space in my schedule to take all of them before applying to college.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure colleges like self-studying. I’m self-studying Calculus BC because my school only offers AB and for credit at most colleges for the class, you need to take the BC exam. </p>
<p>The two main points of self-studying are: 1) get an award and put on college apps, hoping to look more appealing and 2) you can get credit for some of the exams, therefore you won’t have to pay hundreds to take a useless class in college.</p>