<p>I'm taking 7 ap classes my senior year :O I'm a little bit psycho.</p>
<p>I took 4 my junior year and it wasn't hard at all, and the AP's I'm taking my senior year are more interesting to me which should help. They are: Biology, Government, Econ, Computer Science, Statistics, Literature, Spanish.</p>
<p>Any tips on how I can manage this courses, or if you've taken any of them, how was the course load? Hopefully I can maintain my streak of never pulling an all-nighter. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My best advice would probably be don’t do it. I did 7 last year and it made me miserable. With that being said, I know you’ll probably not listen to the first piece of advice. (The me of last year wouldn’t, either.)</p>
<p>First and foremost, you may have to drop extracurriculars. I was lucky in that the extracurricular that I would’ve dropped (marching band) was not offered. On the extracurriculars you don’t drop, you may have to relax your involvement. Use all downtime at extracurriculars to your advantage. Do a couple of problems before practice, read some lit on the ride home (provided that you’re not driving).</p>
<p>Do as much work possible in-class. Do some work during lunch, recess, whenever really. Get home and don’t get on CC/other addicting web sites. Sometimes, you’ll not have time to read and will have to rely on chapter outlines, which should be ok for bio and gov (and lit, but that may be unethical).</p>
<p>Good luck. It’s going to be really hard with college apps as well as those classes.</p>
<p>If you really believe in yourself, you can do it. Don’t say you’ll study, just do it! Keep in the back of your head your end goal to keep yourself going. </p>
<p>Nothing is impossible.</p>
<p>I sort of took seven APs last year. I had three regular classes and four self-studies because this was the hardest schedule I could get at my school.
Of the ones you listed, I did Biology and English Lit in class, and Statistics and US Government as self-studies.
I didn’t think the work was that bad, but that’s probably because I didn’t take most of them. College classes aren’t supposed to have as much homework as high school classes. They’re just harder.</p>
<p>I’m taking 6 next year. Let’s do this.</p>
<p>The first step is to brag on college confidential.</p>
<p>^^LOL. Check.</p>
<p>Thread on 5 AP’s as a sophomore? I’m scared to start school…</p>
<p>You mean me…because I said 6 as a sophomore…</p>
<p>/trollface</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine. Do homework and get ahead on the weekend. Start your projects early. Usually there’s a lot of down time in class when you’re not doing anything. Use it to do homework and study. I got a lot done that way this past year.</p>
<p>I’m taking 6 AP’s next year for senior year: Lit, Comp Gov, BC Calc, Bio, Spanish, and Human Geo with heavy extracurricular involvement. For some reason I’m not worried. I think Calc is going to be the only hard one.</p>
<p>Get a time turner from Harry Potter and add a 25th hour to the day. Still, you’ll only be slightly insane.</p>
<p>Just don’t procrastinate… NEVER procrastinate. With enough determination you should be ok 
oh and pace yourself daily :)</p>
<p>How to survive? Don’t forget to eat, sleep, and breathe. If ever stuck in a hopeless situation, you can drink your own… well, you know.</p>
<p>With that schedule, you’re going to struggle to find time to apply for college. At my school, AP classes are no joke. Each one, even easy ones like APES and AP HuG, require at least an hour’s homework a night (lit, bio, econ classes are ALWAYS over 2 hours). The homework is going to be the hardest part- you need to work on it constantly, and probably learn to BS your way out of the busywork.</p>
<p>And if the classes don’t kill you, the exams will. You are looking at 9 of them in 2 weeks, each requiring a LOT of review- forget not pulling all-nighters. You will also have to learn to be in 2 places at once, since I’m reasonably sure computer science and spanish are scheduled for the same time.</p>
<p>Good luck, have fun.</p>
<p>Whenever someone says “I’m taking 7 APs: AP Gov, Econ, Literature, Spanish, and three others,” I usually begin to sniff out something a little fishy.</p>
<p>^ Why is that, exactly?</p>
<h1>1. Keep the mentality that you’ll do everything faster than the teacher can assign it. If you have a long research paper due by Friday, get it done by Monday. List of assignments well in advance? Go down the list while you have the time. With this and 7 APs (not doubling gov’t/econ), I had plenty of free time not having to worry about workloads where I can spend time on extracurriculars.</h1>
<h1>2. Enjoy high school while you can 
Or get what you can get out of it before you can’t anymore even though you don’t like it that much.</h1>
<p>@ ybrown234</p>
<p>1) gov and econ are only 1 semester each. It’s like saying physics C is 2 APs which it really isn’t</p>
<p>2) it might be APES, Psych, and Human Geo</p>
<p>3) it might be “Alternative Path” classes designed for people who can’t keep pace with regular classes</p>
<p>to OP:
Definitely post this on as many subforums on CC as possible.
Everyone needs to know that you’re taking 7 APs next year. You so smart boi. I make you egg roll long long time.</p>
<p>AP Gov could be Comp Gov or US Gov, Econ could be Macro or Micro, Lit could be Spanish Lit or Lit & Comp, Spanish could be Language or Lit.</p>