Too Many AP Classes 4 Junior Year???

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<p>I've been wondering if I have too many AP classes. I know that it is up to me, but I need help deciding which ones I need to drop. I'm thinking about dropping AP Eng Lang but I already bought the summer reading books. I'm also thinking about dropping AP Spanish Lang, but if I do, I won't be an officer in Spanish Honor Society. I'm also thinking about taking AP Psychology senior year, but in senior year, all of my classes will AP. </p>

<p>Here's my schedule as a junior (course-selection):
AP English Lang
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP US History
AP Psychology
AP Spanish Lang</p>

<p>Please consider the difficulty of each course. I heard AP Stats and AP Psychology was not that hard. Plus AP Psychology at my school is only one semester, so I have 5 and a half AP courses next year. Please add additional information such as the amount of time homework takes in each class. Please and Thank You!</p>

<p>Am I fit?
Sophomore grades:
AP World History: 87 (my first time getting a B in this course, I've always had high As)
Honors Geometry: 95
Honors Algebra II: 95
Honors Chemistry: 96
Honors Spanish III: - (it's a mid-A, like 93 or 94, though i think)
Honors English II: 97 (this course was easier than last year's English course)
Last year's English course ran like an AP class, and I never got below an 83 in that class. But again, my teacher last year was so disorganized and frantic and didn't teach much.</p>

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<p>that is a crazy schedule…</p>

<p>take out spanish or english… trust me… you dont want to have to worry about 2 conflicting dialects</p>

<p>and how are you taking calc AB without trig/anal. geometry?</p>

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<p>I’m taking Pre-Cal over the summer.</p>

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<p>I took Pre-Calc over the summer as well. My schedule Jr. year is (now)…</p>

<p>AP Biology
AP Calculus AB (BC Self)
AP United States History
AP World History
AP Statistics (self)
AP Psychology (self)
AP Environmental Science (self)</p>

<p>Let me say that Biology was a b**… because it was the teacher’s first time teaching it so we fell SOOO BEHIND, so I practically self-studied that course as well. Overall, I don’t know about English Language or Spanish Language but the rest of your schedule seems just fine. Note that I still had time to have a life, as in play basketball/cross country after school, go watch movies, hang out with friends, head to the beach, go out for dinner, etc.etc. even with all the APs I had. So go for it.</p>

<p>But take my advice with a grain of salt since I haven’t got my scores back and I haven’t taken some of my exams yet. However, the only exam I felt like crap on was AP Statistics, because I hated the subject, which led to me begin studying a week before the exam out of a prep book. If I’m lucky, I might pull a 3 haha.</p>

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<p>Wheezy is crazy, I personally know him and he jus loves studying…like hardcore. For you, I recommend that you take like 5-6. Also, I always felt that BC is much easier than the AB, because it only touches on concepts. AB has way too much tricks and trap holes that u can fall into, so while the curve is higher for AB u might end up scoring on the high fence for 4. Take BC!</p>

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<p>Hahahah like I said, take my advice with a grain of salt. I have to admit I did pull multiple all nighters and regularly slept at 1-3am, occasionally around 4am, and woke up at 6:30-7:00am daily because of my APs and being dragged by my friends into playing. I also had the benefit of one 1:30hr period of study hall and two easy classes (French II + British Literature).</p>

<p>But my body has literally adapted to the lack of sleep. Also I go to an international school where they don’t offer as many APs as a normal American high school, so my self-studies has given me freedom to study whenever I please without a teacher assigning me crazy useless homework.</p>

<p>As for BC or AB, take BC. I just saw the FRQ for the 2010AB, I wouldn’t have been able to solve some of those compared to the BC FRQs.</p>

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<p>Someone told me that taking AP Calculus AB first would help with AP Calculus BC (I’ll take this senior year.)</p>

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<p>Lol just finish the two at one shot. I managed to pull off those two in one year.</p>

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<p>Pretty freaking crazy schedule. Unless you’re somebody who studies all day every day and has very few ECs.</p>

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<p>Not that crazy. You 'kin dooo it!
What about senior year though? Would you ease up, or take even more? If you plan on taking a ton senior year, I would cut AP Spanish out. </p>

<p>For me, I only wanted a few AP’s junior year, so I took AP US, AP Euro, and APLAC. All easy. Should have taken more. My senior year sched is whack though: AP World, AP Stats, AP US2, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Bio (I think, it might not fit though with the stats lab). Which is probably not good, being senior year an all… But it looks good, plus they’re all pretty much classes I love. </p>

<p>You know best what you think you can handle, you’ll make the right choice.</p>

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<p>What about the SAT I and subject tests? All those AP courses will make it very difficult to study for those, unless you have already planned out when to take it.</p>

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<p>My SATII coincides with the APs I’m taking.</p>

<p>I took SAT2 USH and Bio M on May 1st (I will get the scores on May 20… the day of prom <em>sigh</em>)</p>

<p>I will take SAT2 Math II and World History (and one of the above if the scores aren’t at least 780) this June. After May, due to the sheer amount of AP classes I have, I have A LOT OF FREE TIME. The teachers won’t be doing anything in those classes really. We might watch movies and write essays about the historical accuracy in them in history classes, talk about college, life, etc.etc. </p>

<p>SAT I will be done senior year, where I can choose to self-study more courses as I have exhausted by school’s AP offerings. But really, you have more time than you think you’ll have. Almost anything is possible if you try hard enough.</p>

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<p>Your revised schedule:</p>

<p>AP English Lang
AP English Lit (self)
AP Statistics
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry (self)
AP Physics C (M AND E) (self)
AP US History
AP European History (self)
AP US Government and Politics (self)
AP Psychology
AP Spanish Lang</p>

<p><em>Sarcasm alert…</em></p>

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<p>What is easy for one person is hard for another. It also depends on your school, your teacher, your motivation and your study habits. </p>

<p>My S is finishing his junior year in a rigorous IB program. In 9th grade, he took two AP classes (World History, Macro), four in 10th grade (Calc AB, Stats, Human Geog, Eng Lit). All 5s. Six this year - Calc BC, APUSH, Physics, Chem, Eng, Micro. </p>

<p>Is he brilliant - no, he is very smart, pays attention in class EVERY day, keeps up with his work and studies hard. He is always in bed by 11PM b/c he gets up at 5AM to take the bus to school. He stays after school 3-4 days a week for ECs and to tutor others.</p>

<p>I’m not telling you this to brag, but to help you answer your question. First decide what type of student/person you are. Your answer to that will determine the classes you will take.</p>

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<p>I’m not quite sure I understand this whole phenomenon of skipping AB because BC is “easier.” If you’re going to get college credits granted for passing BC, they’re going to assume you know the AB stuff, so wouldn’t it be important to take AB so you don’t have a whole in knowledge when you get to college? It just seems like those missed concepts will come back hard to bite you…</p>

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<p>BC contains an AB subscore.</p>

<p>As in if you take Ap calculus BC, you will be covering/reviewing AP Calculus AB. BC is just a half-semester worth of materials added onto AB. As in you can finish AP Calculus AB two months before the AP exams (if your class goes fast enough) and then self-study BC section on your own.</p>

<p>BC and AB doesn’t teach you complete separate things if that’s what you are wondering theblusrstillblu.</p>

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<p>Wow. I’m impressed that your school even allows you to do that - ours only lets us take a maximum of 4 APs our junior year. That being said, my schedule this year (senior year) was all APs - I took 6 (English Lit, Biology, Environmental, French, Statistics, and Government/Politics, a requirement). I’ll reiterate - my schedule was manageable, most of the time. Not great, but manageable. However, if you have a lot of ECs, I would NOT recommend taking such a rigorous course schedule junior year because your grades during junior year are really important for college. Case in point: fall was really, really difficult for me - I was up until 2 and 3 am each night, because in addition to varsity soccer, which would get me home around 7 or 8 every night, I also worked 10 hours a week. Once that season was over, I miraculously managed to get to bed around 11 every night (haha). </p>

<p>But in general, in order to keep up with classes,I think you have to learn to prioritize. It depends how strict your teachers are with homework - my AP Calc teacher junior year ALWAYS wanted us to do it, and we had to hand it in, so that was about 45 minutes of work/night for that class. However, in AP Stats this year, I don’t think I ever did the homework - I just studied for tests and quizzes the night before and paid attention in class. French was similar - we had about an hour or two of homework on the weekends, but none during the week.</p>

<p>I also have to second what some of the other posters are saying - the amount of homework you have really depends on the teacher. At my school, AP World (sophomore year) remains the hardest course I have ever taken - it’s the only AP my school offers for sophomores, but we routinely had hours of homework every night. Next to it, APUSH felt like a joke - we had about thirty minutes a night (but my teacher was not that great) - so if WHAP was rigirous for you, APUSH should be fine. In addition, perhaps it is different for you, but at our school, AP Psych is generally acknowledged as one of the hardest courses.</p>

<p>In conclusion, do what you feel is right. However, I would suggest dropping AP Spanish if you have to drop anything - the exam is apparently very difficult, and it would give you another year to become more familiar with the language before you have to take the exam.</p>

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<p>No, I’m aware that they don’t teach you completely different things. Seeing as the “B” is in both titles and it’s the second year course. It just seems like for someone fresh out of algebra 2 it would be a little hard to teach yourself first year calculus while in second year. It’s not impossible, as you described, but you seem very driven to study (going to bed at 4am) so it may seem easy for you, but if the OP plays sports or does EC’s, 2-3 hours of sleep may not be the best idea.</p>