<p>I'm almost complete with my high school career, and I still haven't taken all the AP Sciences - namely, AP Physics and AP Chem. </p>
<p>If I were a liberal arts major, I probably wouldn't care much for Physics or Chem, but I plan to enter the medical field ... so ... should I take AP Physics and Chem, even if I have to self-study them? </p>
<p>I know that if I don't take Physics or Chem and I'd likely be stuck in a freshman physics class at my university with 500 of my best friends ... </p>
<p>But then, I have to invest a TON of time to self-study - I'm already loaded with APs.</p>
<p>What should I do?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t honestly. Both those are extremely difficult to self study for. I would focus on your other classes. Unless you have all the SAT II’s done that you want to take, I would focus on studying and getting 800’s on those subjects. Maybe self study AP Psychology or something easier. Next month I am going to just read through a couple of review books for AP Psych and that should be enough to get a 5. But I took AP Chem and I am in Physics B right now and they’re not easy classes. Also, don’t forget to post on your progress thread your SAT results; I will too! Just my two cents.</p>
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<p>Yeessssir :D! </p>
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<p>Thanks for sharing your experiences :D. I think I’ll focus on my SAT IIs for now … 800 in APUSH here I come :D. Perhaps I’ll tackle AP Physics over the summer … it shouldn’t be that hard, is it? I really commend you for having taken both AP Chem and Physics though :)! I heard Chem was hard :o, and the fact that the SAT II Chem exam is really different from the AP Chem exam doesn’t help - you have those weird two statement questions lol.</p>
<p>Depends how good you are at physics but I am sure you could handle it. It’s just not one of these subjects that comes intuitively to many people but you never know!</p>
<p>I am also shooting for an 800 in US. I’m thinking I’ll just re-read the pageant and read AMSCO and direct hits a few times. Hopefully Krieger’s book comes out soon too (have you heard any news on that?). How are you going to study?</p>
<p>Edit: I guess extremely difficult is a bit of a hyperbole. Oh and f those two statement questions. Those are probably the sole reason why I got a 790 and not an 800.</p>
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<p>For me, an 800 in US looks like a pipe dream now because I screwed myself by not reading the last couple chapters in my history book for class so … yeah … not knowing Populism is probably going to bite me in the ass on the SAT II exam lol :p. I guess I could review later, but I don’t really have the time to read through Pageant again :(. </p>
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<p>790 :o??!?! That’s already phenomenal! </p>
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<p>I think he’s made a new APUSH Facebook page :o. I’m not sure because I haven’t logged on to FB for some time - non-procrastination ftw :D.</p>
<p>AP chemistry is the last class I would self-study for. It required most class and teacher interaction for me.</p>
<p>There is no point since AP credits for med school requirement classes don’t count…so you would be wasting your time.</p>