Does anyone feel this way? I’m a freshman in hs and barely have any work for my classes. I mostly finish all my work in school. This is my schedule
Honors Chemistry
Algebra 2 Honors
Honors English 1
P.E
Experimental Science Honors (It’s a magnet school)
AP World
My schedule next year
AP Chem
Honors Trig/Math analysis (precalc)
Experimental Science Honors
Band
Honors English
Spanish 2 Honors
I don’t want to take any useless aps
Yeah, I feel the same way. Everyone always talks about how they have 3+ hours of homework but I barely get 30 minutes a day while having the most rigorous schedule (weighting wise.)
I feel the same way, my school offers AP Human Geography and psychology but I plan to do those classes DE. Can’t wait to transfer to a school in my area that requires 3 DE classes each semester. I get to transfer for junior year.
Yep I feel the same way. 6 AP classes, but only about 1 hour of homework a day. Still stay up till 2am cause I am burnt out for who knows why.
AP exams in a month, RIP me.
Good luck to everyone with AP exams!
Parent here, poking into this thread to offer a little unsolicited advice. If you are smart/capable and you don’t go to a cutthroat high school, yes, you are likely to find – especially in the first couple of years – that high school is a walk in the park. Your friends are complaining about hours of homework and you’re all, “Huh, I just watched six episodes of my favorite Netflix show.”
Here comes the advice: Don’t coast, because it’s a recipe for disaster when you get to college (especially if you end up a competitive school because your grades are great). Take the most challenging classes you can, and if your high school simply doesn’t offer those, explore other options (dual enrollment at a local university, distance learning classes at competitive colleges which offer them, etc.). Do an independent study research project in your field of interest. Find an internship where you will have to work your tail off. Do not assume that you are so smart you will never have to work hard. Figure out how to cultivate a good work ethic and study habits now because you will need them in college. Plenty of very smart and capable kids have miserable first semesters at college when they discover that they have no idea how to study and work hard.
I’ve watched this play out with my own kids and their friends, and if I’m being completely honest, it happened to me, too, although not until grad school (you know, back in the Jurassic era, when I was in school). Assume it’s going to get harder, and take this time to prepare yourself.
/soapbox 
thanks for the advice guys, I’ve just did some college placement testing and I’m taking college english ( English composition 1) in the summer
Cool have fun! Yeah I found school to be easyish early on and got into a DE program with a local community college somphmore year. Free credits and more interesting classes. Try to find things like this if you want to challenge yourself.
Yeah, I’m doing a sport and the most challenging classes possible (I even skipped a grade in math + science) but I still have AT MOST 2 hours of homework a night. My school won’t let me take community college courses for credit or skip any other classes, though, so I’m just going to have to wait until I can take APs next year (there are no APs offered freshman year) to have challenging classes. Oh well. At least I have time to catch up on Hulu!