<p>Hi everyone. I am a rising sophomore planning on taking/self-studying the following APs:</p>
<p>AP Biology (take)
AP Calculus (take BC, or take AB and self-study BC)
AP Euro (I'm also taking Honors Western Civ, so the two probably overlap a lot)
AP World (self-study)
AP Stats (either self-study or take at local CC)
AP Psych (self-study)
AP Environmental Science (self-study)
AP HUGS (self-study)</p>
<p>Is this a smart/doable plan? I'm thinking it shouldn't be that terrible b/c the last three/four are supposedly really easy APs and I could probably cram them in during the last couple months before AP exams or something. Your thoughts, fellow CCers? Thanks :D</p>
<p>Hey I’ll be a sophomore next year too! I’m taking 5 APs and Linear Algebra/Diffy Q at school, and I’ll be self-studying AP Psych. Your plan seems a little too stressful. I know those are easy APs, but self-studying all of those isn’t going to be a walk in the park. I self studied AP world this last year and found it quite challenging to manage my time to study due to many sports, extracurriculars, and other AP classes. </p>
<p>Tbh, I think it’s a little too much, but if you are very ambitious then sure why not? Are you involved in a lot of other extracurriculars or sports outside of school? </p>
<p>Do what makes sense according to your schedule.</p>
<p>That is a lot, and while I’m sure you’re smart enough to at least pass each of the tests you self study, it’s better to take fewer tests and get 4’s and 5’s than to take a lot and just scrape by with a 3. If I were you, I would cut that down to the AP history exams and maybe one more, which I think would look pretty good especially because they aren’t blatant joke exams.</p>
<p>You’re only a sophomore? How 'bout you do one self-study a year? Pick three you are ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN and study one each for the next three years. Self-studies are fun when you care about the topic. I self-studied Lang and HG this year and it was enjoyable. But if you’re just doing it to add another course to your CB transcript, then spare yourself.</p>
<p>oh and yeah why are you taking both AP Euro and Hon Western Civ? Just take Euro.</p>
<p>You know what you should do? Take all 28 ap exams and score 1s on all of them. Colleges will look at the number of exams you take and completely disregard the scores you get.</p>
<p>@thiruvin000
I’ll be doing orchestra next year, probably, which would only require a couple hours of practice/day. Also volunteering (have a bunch of hours due) and clubs @ school, of course.</p>
<p>@Rob1995, @conspiracie
My school doesn’t offer AP Euro (I’m only taking Hon Western Civ). Actually, it doesn’t offer most of the APs I want to study. But others before me have self-studied AP Euro from HWC, and they said it wasn’t too bad.</p>
<p>@injectmagic
There are 34 AP exams. And I’m pretty sure the only way you can get a one is by showing up, writing your name on the test, and doing nothing else.</p>
<p>Hun, take it easy on yourself. It may seem like a fantastic idea to do all of this stuff, but come May you’re going to want to tear your hair out.</p>
<p>If I were to suggest anything, take up to only 3 or 4.</p>
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<p>THIS. THIS. THIS.</p>
<p>Restrict yourself from doing too many and you’ll get better scores overall.</p>
<p>Oh, hon, if you’re not actually taking Euro you oughtta count that as a self-study. Yeah, you’ll take Honors, but I have the Honors workbook from my school’s Honors class and it covers maybe a third of the course.</p>
<p>Take BC calc if your school offers it, don’t self-study that crap.</p>
<p>What APs did you take last year? If this is your first year taking APs then whoah. stop it. Take Bio, Calc, and Euro (which will all require at least two hours a week each of homework time, and orchestra sucks time like crazy) and then pick ONE to self-study if you are actually interested in it.</p>
<p>I’d say just take 3 exams since you are a Sophomore. It seems like a great plan now but towards exam time your going to wish you had not paid for all of those exams. because you will be tearing your hair out</p>
<p>Thanks everyone - HUUUUUUUUGE reality check for me! I tend to get carried away with many things and think that there’s more time/hours in the day for me to do all this. </p>
<p>Thoughts on my new plan below?</p>
<p>Bio (take)
Calc BC (take)
Euro (self-study)
World (self-study, possibly?)
Psych (self-study)</p>
<p>yeah that isn’t too bad, Euro should come a bit easier due to the class you are taking, and World won’t be too bad either (just gotta learn all the non-Euro stuff, which I guess is still a lot), and Psych is (from what i’ve heard) flat out easy. Definitely manageable if you work hard.</p>
<p>That is a challenging load but doable. I don’t know enough about World (my school doesn’t offer it and I’m not going to take it) to know how much work that’s going to be. I would wait to start studying Psych until November or so. See how the load with the first four is working for you for those first couple months. If the other four are manageable, you can definitely study all you need for Psych in six months.</p>
<p>Don’t double up on World and Euro, if anything. They’re both crammed courses with a lot of information. You don’t want to confuse it all on the tests. I’d suggest Euro.</p>
<p>Bio, Calc, and Euro I know nothing about. Psych is mostly information comprehension/reading. You should be fine.</p>
<p>Agreed. World and Euro surprisingly have very little overlap. </p>
<p>World requires much less in-depth knowledge (you don’t have to memorize specific dates, people, locations, etc.) but you have to know on a much larger scale on a much larger timescale. Regardless, it’s still a fairly easy course because you only have to know very, very little information about each civilization, plus many of the MC questions can be answered using common sense.</p>
<p>Haven’t taken Euro, but from what I’ve heard you have a smaller span you have to learn than World, but you have to know a LOT of details.</p>
<p>Some of these people are over exaggerating. It is not too hard of a schedule if you have the aptitude for it. Can you cram lots of information? Are you willing to sleep very little during the 2 weeks of APs? I self-studied 4 APs as a freshman and I am doing 4 more plus one in school as a sophomore. Human Geo, Environmental Science, and Psychology should take a day or so of hard work. I am also taking Bio at school. I did Psych and Human Geo in one day each last May. I am doing APES this year. I am also doing stat. Environmental Science I will do right before the exam. I am starting Stat right now. I will probably read Barrons through once before the end of summer. Then I will study it again before the exam. I am also self-studying World and Euro. I am starting Euro now and will work throughout the year. I will start world a month or two before the exam. I am taking Honors World History at school.</p>
<p>So Basically you should take Calc BC at school. I am doing the exact same schedule as you except im not taking Calc BC and I am not taking HUG and Psych. HUG and Psych are total jokes, really easy and you could study them the night before the exam. I took them both this past may.</p>
<p>A contrarian view from a parent: Enough self-studying already!</p>
<p>Why do you all do this? Are you all so excited about psych and environmental science that you feel driven to study them in your spare time? Do you think colleges will be impressed if you self-study 24 APs? Have you all noticed that you all are applying to the same schools? Self-studying a bunch of AP exams is not making you stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>Do something different: Try devoting some time to learning about a topic that excites you, without worrying about whether or not there is an AP exam for it.</p>
<p>^ I agree with you 110% I purposely don’t see why so many students self-study SO many AP classes and they don’t even want learn more about them, they just want credit.</p>