<p>Hey everyone, so my schedule for next year, 10th grade, is:
AH English 2
AH Chemistry
AH Algebra 2
AH Geometry
APUSH
Spanish 2 H
Personal Finance H/Economics H</p>
<p>And I really want to take three more AP's:World History, US Government, and Stats. My strong suits are math and any form of social studies, I have a really good memory, and I usually keep a 97+ average in all classes. Should I self study these three AP classes if I can handle the work or would it be too overwhelming?</p>
<p>US Gov and Stats are fairly easy to self-study even if you try to cram it all in a few weeks (which I do not recommend.) World History is a lot of material to cover, and you need to know how to build an essay using random source material, which is not really a self-taught concept. Additionally, if your school offers the courses, colleges would prefer you taking the course and exam rather than just taking the exam.</p>
<p>I’d delay a year on stats and US gov’t. The knowledge you’ll learn from APUSH and Alg 2 will be much help for them. I wouldn’t recommend doing 3 histories, but If you want to, I’d say go for World History! The essay structure is similar to APUSH, so what you learn writing wise in that class will help you on both exams.</p>
<p>I’m not familiar with AH classes. I’d say don’t do them all in one year, it may be alot to stay ontop of. Some parts of APUSH and AP government go hand in hand. As the previous poster mentioned, World History may also be in a similar format. Why not hold off and spread them out some more? Or if they are offered, take the class. You don’t want to overwhelm yourself that you don’t have time for anything else.</p>
<p>Edit: My recommendation is to take at least AP Gov this year, because World History and Stats can be tough if you are not familar with it, but history will give you a decent background.</p>
<p>Oh, I would disagree with doubling up on histories. Both APUSH and world are super dense information memorization. It’s going to be time intensive, and there is really no overlap. Government is pretty easy to add. I don’t really know about self study for stats - should be fine if you’re really strong in math but per your schedule you seem to be a little delayed in math not having either algebra 2 or geometry yet? But why the rush to do so many AP tests in sophomore year? You could delay some of these til junior year. What AP classes are you planning in school for junior schedule?</p>
<p>^ Agreed. I would have died taking both AP histories in one year. You want to spend five hours a night reading two textbooks? Yikes. xD</p>
<p>For math, a teacher is usually recommended. Tripling up on history is going to suck big-time, even if Gov is an easier class.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I want to do AP classes junior year because I’m doing full IB classes along with an engineering course, so I’m not exactly sure if I want to do AP with my IB workload.</p>
<p>You don’t need the AP classes if you are doing full IB classes, as they’ll just be duplicates for the most part (or so I understand- im not in IB).</p>
<p>AP and IB aren’t the same thing. They might be similar, but they do teach to different things, and as such, the material is different.</p>