STUY placement and AP policies

Test Preparation
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<p>when you arrive (9th grade?), they make you take placement tests for stuff like math? if you're advanced, you can take advanced math? (like precal by 10th grade)?</p>

<p>also, APs, how easy is it to get APs, do many people take more than 3 in 11th grade and more than 8-10 overall? what are requirements etc...</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>no, those placement exams are only to be for placement in Honors Mathematics</p>

<p>Trust me, stuy only offers like 6 honor classes, and three of them are honor math courses. They are not a joke like in other schools. I saw the hw of some of the stuff and they were similar to amc type questions, and teachers don't teach from text.</p>

<p>Very competitive students take 3 ap's at most, and most who go on to ivies take 3 aps junior year. The record I think was 5.</p>

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<p>For AP prerequisties, see <a href="http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html&lt;/a>
The number taken varies widely. A smart, well-rounded but not exceptional student usually takes 0-2 as a soph, 2-4 as a junior and 2-3 as a senior.</p>

<p>The placement exam does allow you to take precal in 10th grade. ~80% of people take MQ3(Algebra II, more or less) as a frosh, but maybe 15% are in MQ1 ("normal" math) and 5% accelerate to MQ5 (Geometry/Trig, next year is precalc).</p>

<p>Agro, I'm not sure about that. What about BC Calc, Spanish language, English language, US history, Psychology and Physics B? (for example). All typically junior classes, but that's 6 right there.</p>

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<p>problem is you forgot to mention all the requisite classes such as tech, and electives, gym, health, etc (Junior year(. Besides, you need a 95 avg to take more than 3, and a 95 at stuy is very impressive.</p>

<p>also, it would be impossible to fit the schedule you just mentioned.</p>

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<p>not really. the above program would be 7 periods (physics is 2). That leaves 3, for lunch, gym and 5tech/health.</p>

<p>and they will almost always let you ignore the 95 rule if you ask real nicely.</p>

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and they will almost always let you ignore the 95 rule if you ask real nicely.

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<p>also you can take AP comp sci as well junior year. DO NOT NEGLECT COMP SCI O_O</p>