<p>Also realize Masterus your making all your arguments based on what you know from your sheltered world. Okay so maybe not everyone takes the exact number of APs as you but maybe because you have different opportunities. At my school the only AP you can take as an underclassman is Chinese 5 AP, and I go to one of the top public schools in California.</p>
<p>The Sun don't revolve around you son.</p>
<p>And before you make the argument that I'm a dee-dee-dee you can kiss my affirmative action behind. Because I'm sure you will use the your black argument against me when I get into college <-- Not that far fetched knowing you.</p>
<p>Congrats on your all your APs.......Asinine Personality.</p>
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<p>Junior Year:
English 11 H
Trig (H?)
AP US
AP Bio
Japanese 3/4 (Black kid taking Japanese, he lies.)
2 Community College Courses, African American History and something else.</p>
<p>That's right I have different oppurtunities and as I have said; I have WORSE opputunities than everyone else, but I still retain this myraid of AP classes above everyone. What do you have to say to that? You shouldn't mess in other people's quarrels. I bite my thumb at you.</p>
<p>I really want IB for some reason, finish all the APs I need freshman and sophmore year and then do IB for junior and senior year. Too bad, there're only 3 IB academies in Connecticut and they offer very little. Plus, they're far away from me and only 1 is a magnet school I might be able to attend.</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
AP English
AP Bio
AP Physics
AP Calc BC
AP Euro
AP French
H Band</p>
<p>Yikes!</p>
<p>Masterus, I personally haven't clashed with you... but I'm stupid and confrontational, so I'm going to offer some advice =)</p>
<p>You seem very intelligent. Yay. Good for you. Be proud of yourself for your achievements and diligence... but there's no need to demean others, or assume that you're superior to anyone else. Your need to deride others' achievements only translates as an unappealing mix of low self-esteem and immaturity.</p>
<p>Les0s how are you gonna handle all those classes! At my school you can have a max. of 6 classes (the most APs for a senior can be 5). I'd burn out! And we're not allowed to double up on AP sciences because they give so much work.</p>
<p>I have no idea how I'm going to handle them =(</p>
<p>I asked my guidance counselor to help me choose a few classes to drop... and instead he shook his head, said, "No, this is fine," and sent me on my way.</p>
<p>AP Euro, I've heard, isn't really taught like an AP class at my school. And, the good French teacher at my school is retiring, so I think (hope?) that AP French is going to be a joke.</p>
<p>In any case, I'm not going to have life next year...</p>
<p>still figuring out next year (junior year) schedule :</p>
<p>AP English Lang
AP US History
AP Spanish Lit or a year of visual/tech arts I need to get rid of. (non honors of coursee haha)
AP Calc AB or AP Statistics*
AP Chemistry or Honors Chem*
PE (varsity tennis)</p>
<p>so i was wondering if i could ask you guys-</p>
<p>Should I go with AP Calc AB & then BC for senior year? Then I won't be taking Stats though. I don't know how important Stats is since I don't know anything about it, I just know it might be easier than Calc since our school's Calc teachers suck at teaching. So... yeah. I'm not sure what I should do. :( If I take Calc AB junior year & then Stats senior year, do I still have to take Calc BC in college?</p>
<p>anddd.. I'm still deciding if I should go to Honors Chem or skip to AP Chem. I took Honors Bio freshman year & AP Bio soph year, and I don't know if it's easy to go to AP Chem without knowing anything from Honors Chem. And I'm really bad at chemistry.. I think. Since I suck at the basic chem we learn in AP Bio, haha. -__- so no clue!</p>
<p>^^Chem is kinda hard to learn in a year. Heck, Bio's easier to learn in a year than Chem is. But that's just me.</p>
<p>What if you took Calc AB junior year, Stats senior year, and self-studied for the BC exam while taking AB? (It's about three to four more chapters worth of material.)</p>
<p>And you know this because you have taken every AP science and passed every AP test with a 5 before the end of 9th grade. Seriously stop talking like you know everything.</p>
<p>No... I disagree. In my AP Chem class, it was ASSUMED that you knew everything from last year. We don't take notes on anything EXCEPT stuff that we didn't cover in Honors chem. I don't know what your classes are like... but Chem isn't just taking formulas and plugging in values. You need to understand the concepts behind the problem before tackling it (or, at least, on the types of questions that show up on our tests).</p>
<p>Honors English II
AP Calculus BC (testing out of Pre-Calculus this summer)
Honors Chemistry
AP World History
Honors French III
AP Computer Science A (will beg and plead for this class)
Orchestra</p>
<p>Chem is a hard class, depending on the level of course since its a prerequisite.</p>
<p>My Honors Chem teacher is also the AP Chem teacher so the style is the same AND you actually need to understand concepts. Not just solving stoichiometry problems.
Next year I'm taking AP Bio, but from what I have heard you need to remember everything from regular Chem to get through AP Chem, they don't review you are suppose to remember collecting gas by water displacement and oxidation and all that ****.</p>
<p>At my school, we don't need to take the Honors level before the AP level for sciences, we just do the AP level. There're no honors levels for Physics and Chemistry; only AP and Standard. The bad part is that we have to take Honors Earth Science freshman year. :( I also find it useless to have to take Earth Science, but I find it useless to take 2 of the same classes at different levels twice. Take my school's AP Biology classes, every year there has been 3 or 4 classes and around 100 percent of the students get above a 3. 50 percent get 5s so I'd imagine that 4s match that percentage.</p>
<p>Earth Science is the stupidest class ever. This here is a cloud. My guess is in honors you get to learn the proper names, Ooooh.</p>
<p>At our school. the "advanced" track goes</p>
<p>Frosh: Bio
Sopho: Chem/Chem (H)
Junior: AP Bio or AP Chem or physics
Senior: AP Bio or AP Chem or physics AP</p>
<p>In cali its a prerequisite to have 2 years of science, stupid I know. But 1 year must be lab and 1 year class based science.
Bio counts as a class based and Chem a lab.</p>
<p>If I went to a school that offered Biology freshman year, I might be able to convince the department supervisor to let me into AP Biology freshman year. :(, but I don't go to a school like that.</p>
<p>Honors Earth Science is a version of AP Enviromental Science, but much more simple. I have learned useless material in this class, the only useful part is Weather. I'll be able to understand the Weather Channel with ease now; the frontal systems, warnings, watches, protection, etc.</p>
<p>By the way, Serenity, you're a senior...you made a new account and deleted your old one. I have good memory. :) Don't lie.</p>
<p>Speaking as a junior who has actually taken all the science APs except for Enviro Sci and got 5s on all of them:</p>
<p>It depends. In my experience biology is easier to learn "in one shot" since it's mostly memorization, whereas chemistry and physics you should take for a couple of years to make sure you've got the concepts and such down well.</p>
<p>I took AP Biology without the honors course. It was hard work, but I don't think it would have been that much easier if I had taken the honors course beforehand (there'd still be that same amount to memorize). I took two years of chemistry and breezed through both of them; yet if I had taken the AP course without the honors course it would have been significantly harder (it's best to figure out what all those little symbols mean your first year, before you have to deal with stuff like equilibrium and redox).</p>