<p>Right, apparently in my school there is a poilcy that states that you can't self-study an ap course and ask the school to order the exam for you.</p>
<p>What can I do..?</p>
<p>Ask another school to order the exam for you, and take it there. Although, you might have to pay for the exam then.</p>
<p>If you decide to do it, Do Not tell your friends. Keep it on the downlow, schools and school officials don’t like it when you find a loop hole and get around their stupid rules. Keep your mouth shut, srsly.</p>
<p>Um, they can’t stop you from self-studying it, even if the school won’t administer the test. You can still take any AP, you just have to register at another school to take it there. Call collegeboard to find out more</p>
<p>I agree with sd6. I’m not even sure YOUR school could refuse to let you take an exam if you requested one, but you’re probably better off not antagonizing them.</p>
<p>Honestly, schools shouldn’t be refusing to administer tests, but yeah, just take it at a different school.</p>
<p>I think your school has it backwards. </p>
<p>AP Exams come from College Board. </p>
<p>College Board decides what tests are available to students.</p>
<p>Do This:</p>
<p>1.) Go to the College Board website
2.) Go to the College Board Tests Section
3.) Choose AP Registration
4.) Follow the Directions </p>
<p>I’m sure there’s a school in your area willing to administer the test.</p>
<p>Incredibly BAD on your school’s part to take this stance. I concur. Quietly check out other schools in your area or check with the College Board. Your HS has no right to be this kind of gatekeeper. I’ve been scratching my head as to why. Presuming the AP test in question is adminstered at the same time for one the HS DOES offer a class and test, it’s not like it’s much extra work to order up the other exam, which you’d have to pay for. Since the HS is not offering it as a class, I doubt your score on the AP exam, should you flame out, would somehow “count against” the HS because they wouldn’t include it in their stats, since they don’t offer the class, right?</p>
<p>Sounds like bureacracy run amok to me.</p>
<p>Do they offer AP tests free? My school gives all students free AP tests, perhaps you just need to pay for it.</p>
<p>Yup… this happened to me too (hence I have this huge antipathy towards my school’s administration). </p>
<p>Needless to say, I think this is incredibly stupid as it could actually make a school look good if a student self-studies and does well on an exam. At my school at least, people who self-studies exams does better than people who take the course… probably because people have to pay for every exam they take. Refusing students from self-studying AP exams is highly discouraging and illogical.</p>
<p>Just to warn you, it might be possible that the new school you sign up at might contact your school that you’re self-studying AP exams for whatever reason- just because some schools just like to crush people’s dreams or need to get teacher’s permission to skip classes (I know it’s hard to believe, but some schools are still overprotective). </p>
<p>CB actually says schools are allowed to refuse to administer exams for whatever reason. </p>
<p>I know it’ll be hard, but you’ll just have to not tell anyone at your school you’re self-studying for exams. Based on personal experience, rumours do spread really quickly and it’s better to be safe than sorry.</p>
<p>It’s ridiculous, but they do it because they are able to count how many students are in AP classes and it looks “good”.</p>
<p>^I thought the OP was referring to no self-studying for both the AP exams in which the school actually offers a course and the exams in which the school doesn’t offer a course. </p>
<p>Anyways, that would be totally contradictory if it was due to timetable conflicts or if the AP teacher was horrible (so it would be 10x wiser to just self-study it).</p>
<p>Yeah, our school has the same ludicrous policy as well. Just take it another school and do not tell others as antagonizing senior administration officials will do you no good.</p>
<p>OP, why did you say apparently? Did you ask or are you getting this 2nd hand?</p>
<p>You could also just try asking the bursar’s office (ie. the person who handles the finances). At my school all you had to do was pay for the exam and then they put your name on a list. Don’t say you are self-study. Just say you are there to pay for your exam etc.</p>
<p>Your school might have a no self-study policy but it doesn’t matter what the policy is if they don’t enforce it.</p>
<p>You could also maybe take it to your student union or the PTA to get some backing for your cause.</p>
<p>^That’ll depend on why the school has a no self-studying policy in the first place. If it’s finances (my school makes everyone pay for the exams, so finances are obviously not the issue), then that’ll be pretty easy to bypass. </p>
<p>If it’s something like “The school is simply mean and like to see its students suffer” then I wouldn’t make a big fuss about it. It’ll be pretty suspicious if you do all this protesting, then you suddenly stop, and then you miss a lot of school in May lol If you’re a Senior, well, it won’t have as big a negative impact on you, but it’s still risky.</p>
<p>When you are trying to get the test administered for you for self-study, who do you go to?</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor or the AP teacher of the class?</p>
<p>^for your own school? Go to your GC.</p>
<p>My AP coordinator is also one of my AP Teachers. We pay for our own exams anyways…and you have to get like 80% or above in the course to be eligible to write the exam…</p>
<p>^quite frankly, that’s kinda stupid if schools limit which students could write AP exams. I was almost failing my regular Math class (and my Math teacher tried to talk the guidance out of letting me write the exam) and I still got 5 in Calc BC.</p>