<p>Hey CCers,</p>
<p>I'm a rising junior and this is my AP schedule:</p>
<p>US History
Art History
Literature and Comp
Language and Comp
Human Geography</p>
<p>I have a deep interest in economics and finance, and I was wondering how considerable the overlap between the two AP Economics (micro/macro) is. Would it be pretty efficient to self-study both of them? According to the sticky, these are "good" to self-study, but how much time do you think would be put into doing this?</p>
<p>Why did you give us your schedule?</p>
<p>Oh, thanks for reminding me. </p>
<p>I was going to ask if it was reasonable to assume that it would be manageable to self-study those two in addition to my current class schedule.</p>
<p>BTW: I also asked the same question here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1177067-prep-books-macroeconomics-microeconomics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1177067-prep-books-macroeconomics-microeconomics.html</a></p>
<p>How can that be your schedule? Why would you have AP language and Lit in the same year? Where is your math, sciences, foreign language? Have you taken any AP’s before?
How did you do?</p>
<p>Thanks LoseYourself.</p>
<p>My school handles lang and lit differently, they just call it AP English, and it’s considered the most time consuming class we offer. </p>
<p>I’m not taking any AP sciences, maths, or languages. I’m just taking Pre-Calc, physics, and French 3. </p>
<p>My sophomore year was the first time AP’s were offered, and it was just AP US History. I didn’t do as well as I had hoped, and I scored a 4. Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Woops, just noticed that I accidentally included the APUSH on my first post. Scratch that!</p>
<p>I think you shouldn’t worry about self-studying Econ. I would work really hard to get an A and a 4 or 5 in the AP English. I would take AP World or AP Euro for history this year.
AP Human Geography is consider an AP lite and has a frustrating textbook and most colleges don’t give credit for it. It seems like you aren’t a math and science person, so physics and pre-cal should keep you busy. Hopefully, you can take AP calculus and AP French senior year, if things are going really well then self-study Econ. Self study for the SAT or ACT junior year. That will make the biggest difference in your college choices.
Also look for something worthwhile to do the summer between Junior and
Senior years.</p>
<p>I am definitely not a history guy. I took the APUSH just because it was the only sophomore AP that was offered. </p>
<p>I’m currently speaking to my counselor about switching the APHuG (a mandatory junior class, or you have to take a standard, nonAP global geography class) to AP Gov and Politics (usually a senior class).</p>
<p>Math is my best subject, and again, I’m just following my school’s required curriculum, and I will take AP Calc and AP Stats my senior year. </p>
<p>There are no AP foreign languages at my school, and it would be very very difficult to do even moderately well on AP French at the rate that we’re learning. </p>
<p>I appreciate your input, and I will put away a considerable amount of time towards studying for the ACT and SAT.</p>
<p>Your school is very different than our system. If you have to take a geography, look at the AP book and see if you want to do it. It is a freshman course in our system and consider easier than APUSH which you did well on. Sorry for the wrong assumption about math, in our system strong students can take AP CAL AB/BC junior year. You might consider taking AP Stats junior year as it doesn’t have any prerequisites and it boosts your strong math profile. You are right about the AP French, it is a hard exam. My last bit of advice is to look at your target colleges and see what AP courses are awarded credit.</p>
<p>I understand our system is totally different. I don’t necessarily want to take Human Geo, but it’s better than having to take a non-AP geography class. I’m in the process of trying to switch the Human Geo to AP Gov and Politics.</p>
<p>AP Stats would be considered an elective, and the only way I could do that is if I dropped AP Art History. Usually students are not allowed to switch which classes they plan to take after they sign up for them in the spring of the previous year.</p>