<p>Does your school give you credit for self study if you pass a test? Just wondering, or do you guys self study for the hell of it? And what classes do you self study?</p>
<p>we have an independent study program where you submit a syllabus of what you’ll be doing to the school so they can give you credit. this can either be guided by a teacher or not, and with the teach it is like a traditional ISP but without much teacher help it is basically self studying. so yes, we can get credit. however, if you randomly decide to take an AP exam without taking the course, even if you get a 5 AP you dont get credit for the course</p>
<p>Either way, I’m going to self-study. I’m going to ask my favorite teacher to sort of be my mentor while I self-study Human Geography during lunch. Then I’m going to write a letter to my counselor and get her to ask the principal If I can get credit for it. If all goes well, then I’ll get credit and be Valedictorian. =)</p>
<p>why would you only be valedictorian if you took the class?</p>
<p>^I could still be Valedictorian without the class, but Human Geography is a relatively easy AP and our school gives weighted credit for AP so it would secure me to be Valedictorian, so to speak.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t give any credit and would probably discourage it. I don’t care, I’m self-studying anyway.</p>
<p>No (high school)credit 
but im looking forward to start in college with junior standings lol</p>
<p>My HS doesn’t give any credit. I think they don’t to discourage academic competition, which is already rather fierce at my school. When I first asked about it, the first thing my counselor said was “You can’t use this to jump ahead of anyone [in terms of rank].” I’m doing it anyway, because I’m interested in the class, have no room in my sched (could actually fit it if there weren’t certain rules about Dual Enrollment) and the teacher sort of sucks anyway.</p>
<p>Yea. The dual enrollment rule sucks. I hear people taking AP Bio and AP Chem in the same year all the time…It makes me jealous :P</p>
<p>I’ve persuaded my counselor to let me take double science classes though. But on the condition that someone drops out of the class I want to take in the first two weeks…</p>
<p>Harambee…will that really work?</p>
<p>My school barely offers any APs. So I have to ask around our district for schools that do offer the APs I want to self-study. I don’t know how to ask the other school’s principal about this though…</p>
<p>Harambee, how does your school give you credit? Is it averaged with your other classes or does your school add a certain number to your average? No one in my school has really self-studied before, so I’m curious if I could propose your school’s policy to mine :)</p>
<p>Can you “order” an AP and have your school proctor it? Or is it necessary to find a school that already offers that AP? </p>
<p>It seems as if no school has AP Human Geography. I’m not surprised though :P</p>
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<p>1,083 does nay equal 0. Like everyone I know takes HuGeog.</p>
<p>I think you have to talk to your school about taking an exam they don’t administer. Some schools do it, especially if it’s fairly easy to set up. You probably couldn’t get them to do Art History or Music Theory or a language if they don’t already do languages. But otherwise, probs.</p>
<p>@runningwriter - Well first of all, our school is really uncompetitive, a lot of kids drop out and 45% of the school goes to community college after HS. Thus, the teachers and counselors are pretty flexible and lenient. </p>
<p>So if you self-study, the school just adds the class to your transcript as if it were any other class but I think the grade you get on the exam is what determines the grade that will be on the transcript so 5 = A, 4 = B and what not.</p>
<p>^Wow. Lucky you :]</p>
<p>And thanks Millancad. I’ll try talking to my school and get them to proctor it.</p>
<p>^^Oh, okay. Thanks. Almost no one from our school drops out, maybe like 2-3 a year so I doubt they’ll be that lenient :/</p>
<p>No, the only time the administration cares about what you’re self studying is when they need to order the AP exams. </p>
<p>AP classes were not available for the following: statistics, psychology, environmental science, economics, and English language.</p>