<p>Hi, I was wondering about post-AP classes. First, I heard that they look better on your transcript than AP classes so for example, multivariable calc would look better than AP Psyche. Well anyways, at my school, there are post-AP classes for math, computer science, and chemistry. For math, there's calc III/diff eq & linear algebra, the computer science one is really an independent study class but I think the focus is C++ and for chemistry it's ochem. All those classes have prerequisites of AP classes before they let you take them so yeah they're post-AP classes. But the one I was wondering about is biotech. At my school there's two biotech classes: a first-year class that's regular and a second-year class that's honors. But they let you skip the first-year class and go straight into the second-year class if you took honors bio and honors chem previously. So not everyone who takes biotech at my school took AP Bio before. But I heard that taking biotech will prepare you for the AP bio test more than the AP bio class itself (or at least for my school). So I was wondering, will colleges view an honors biotech class as a post-AP class? At private and charter schools that offer post-AP classes, will a class labeled as "Post-AP Biology" include biotech?</p>
<p>This was confusing. Don’t worry about what colleges want. Just take whatever courses you want to take. If the material surpasses AP material, colleges will know and of course they will be pleased. Anyone taking multivariable calc is obviously taking a more rigorous schedule than someone taking AP Psych.</p>