<p>So here's my situation. I go to a relatively competitive suburban public school that offers lots of APs. I am taking honors chem and honors precalc in my school right now. I don't mean to brag, but honors chem is too easy for me, I am bored in the class and am positive that I am capable of taking AP Chem, which is offered in my school. But the school won't let me take AP Chem this year because honors Chem is a prerequisite for ApChem. Same story goes for honors precalc. So I am going to ask my school if I can self study AP Chem and AP Calc without taking their class that they offer. I can't take them next year, because I want to take other classes next year and I would have to give up some of them. My question is, if I take AP Chem and calc exams and get 5s on them, without taking the classes which are offered in my school, what will colleges think of this? I am not doing this to improve my app, it's just that I am interested in math and science, am bored in the honors prerequisite classes and think I am completely capable of taking the AP(again, I don't mean to brag) and I will try to take the exam regardless of what colleges or my school would think. I'm a junior btw. I think that the colleges would think that I am bragging and would be suspicious why I didn't take the AP class in school or that I didn't take the class because I am lazy and didn't want to do the homeworks. Any advice would be helpful.</p>
<p>I think it would be preferable to take the classes, unless the classes you would be taking during the regular school day are more challenging.</p>
<p>Are you a sophomore, and talking about trying to learn AP Chem and AP Calculus (which one?) during your senior year, so you can sit for the exams without having taken the classes?</p>
<p>If so, you won’t have any of the results of your studying until well after colleges have made their admissions decisions. I mean, you could tell them that you’re studying the curricula for AP Chemistry and Calculus on your own, but you wouldn’t take the AP exams until May, so you wouldn’t be able to demonstrate to them whether you followed through on your plan.</p>
<p>We’ll, if you so that, what classes are you going to take next year? Does your school offer anything beyond these AP classes, like multivariable calc? If yes, then I think it’ll look impressive to colleges that you self-studied for AP exams in order to take more challenging classes that you’re interested in. However, if you’ll just end up taking some blow-off classes next year because you ran out of available options, then admission officers probably won’t like that too much.</p>
<p>I am a junior, and am trying to take both AP chem and calc exam this may without taking the classes in school because I don’t like the prerequisite classes I am taking now. Next year I am planning to take 6 other APs and an elective course, and AP Chem and calc won’t fit in my schedule without me giving up some of those 6 APs. If I take AP Calculus exam this may, I might be able to take multivariable calc in a local college.</p>