<p>Since I'm aiming for an ivy league school and since my school doesn't offer any AP's for juniors i had no other choice but to self-study. The school is helping me with the studying part.</p>
<p>They're going to sign me up on an online AP course (virtual virginia) and let's say i choose chemistry, the chemistry teacher in school is going to help me study 3 days a week.</p>
<p>I'm thinking of taking these AP's this year.</p>
<p>AP Chemistry (chemistry teacher will help me during school and after school)
AP Physics (there's physics that will help me likewise)</p>
<p>As my third AP i'm thinking about computer science since i have a small background on c++ i thought that i might do well on that since i'm also interested in it. I also thought that it would be one of the easier self-study AP classes. </p>
<p>And then my goal is to take the AP exams and get a 5 on all of them...</p>
<p>Do you think self-studying ap chem and physics will be hard?
Does anyone have any background on self-studying them?</p>
<p>The AP chem exam was fairly easy ( I took it in May this year) but I didn’t self study the course. I had one dinosaur of a teacher, I think she may have helped write the first AP Chem exam ever…so she really knew what she was doing. She’s been teaching the class for about 65 years and she started us on equation writing in october, and in March she made us do previously administered AP exams every night ( i have no idea where she got them). </p>
<p>The lowest score anyone in our class got was a 4 and I give her all the credit. There’s a lot of stuff they try and cram into it so if you’re going to self study you’ll have to give yourself way more than 3 days a week to work on it.</p>
<p>yea well my chemistry teacher knows what hes doing and all but he doesnt have experience and much knowledge about the AP business. does anyone else have AP Chem, Physics, or CS experiences preferably self-study ones.</p>
<p>Hold on… like I say on all the other threads, why are you self-studying in the first place? </p>
<p>So this is basically what you said to yourself:
I want to get into an Ivy League school. Therefore, I have to self-study no less than 3 AP’s. And they have to be the harder AP’s, or else they’ll think I’m stupid. </p>
<p>I just want to make sure that you know you’ll be studying for the next 5+ years, and it gets harder year after year. It’s only going to get harder. If you’re fine with starting this with self-studying 3 AP’s, you better be ready for an equivalent work load of 10+ AP’s 5 years later. </p>
<p>And not trying to be rude, but aren’t there 10 billion self-study threads out there already that go like: Is Physics hard? Is Chemistry hard? Which is easier: _______ or ________? What is the toughest AP out there? </p>
<p>I really don’t understand why people keep making the same threads over and over… </p>
<p>To answer your question, I really can’t tell you which is harder. Based on what I’ve read in the “Which AP is the hardest?” threads (I don’t see why you can’t read those yourself), there are people saying Physics is harder, and there are people saying Chem is harder. So you’ll have to find out for yourself which is harder for yourself, because it really depends on you and how good your teachers (like the ones who’ll help you self-study) are. Which Physics are you taking?</p>
<p>Oh, to add on, it’s really nice that your school’s going to help you out. </p>
<p>If I asked my school, they’ll be like: Don’t ever try to self-study 3 AP’s. Why do you want to do this anyways? [everytime I say “because I simply want to- what’s wrong with that?” or “It’s good for the college admission proccess.” they say those are not good enoguh reasons. I can’t believe they’ll be writing references for my college applications.] Get a life. If your marks starts slipping even by a bit, we might even not sign you up for the AP exams. </p>
<p>Apparently, all my school cares about is maintaining high averages so the school looks good.</p>
<p>well do you think it would be smart for me transfer to a public high school which offers AP’s since atm i go to a small private one which doesn’t even let us pick electives.</p>
<p>Remember about ECs. Are you in any extra curricular activities? Officer positions? But, yeah, I would transfer. But if it’s your senior year, maybe just stick with it. If you are a junior, I honestly would transfer out.</p>
<p>i meant that there are clubs and groups but only a couple. like chess club for elementary school. nothing serious like those national clubs they have and all that</p>