<p>Psychology
US History
Biology
Chemistry
Calculus AB (Only have taken honors pre-calc)</p>
<p>My intentions are to transfer sophmore year to brown. With that in mind, I thought it would be helpful to self-study AP exams despite my weak IB scores. I will also have a private tutor review all the material for me-(3 days a week)- for about a year. Let me know if you have any experience and could give me advice. thanks.</p>
<p>No, you must be crazy. You think you're going to study them now, but you're going to have work for your regular classes. It's not even worth the pain. </p>
<p>By the way, pre-calculus usually precedes Calculus (hence the prefix "pre"), so the "only" seems kind of unnecessary.</p>
<p>Well, I took all of the classes above in IB subjects. I was just noting that I haven't taken IB calculus yet..</p>
<p>I read the Barron's book for Psychology for a few hours at Barnes and Noble the weekend before and got a 5 - so you can definitely get a 5 on the easy APs if you work. Calculus can work if you're good at conceptual math; biology if you're good at memorization. But for US History and AP Chem, you're crazy - AP chem is so thoroughly lab-based and you really need that part of the course to thoroughly understand it.</p>
<p>I 5'ed all those exams this year in addition to English, if that helps my credibility at all. The IB courses should help...if you're insistant upon self-studying, make sure to take a good look at the differences in curriculums.</p>