<p>Next year (as in this Sept) I plan to take 5 AP classes. Personally, I feel I can handle the rigor the AP classes and the coursework and I have quite an interest in the subjects I'm taking. My only worry is that it may be too much, but may be coming from my teachers and counselors not liking the idea of me taking 5 AP's. I don't come from that great of a high school and I wanted to go above the standard that my school seems to have set (I transferred over from an IB school in 9th grade). Along with taking all the AP exams for my classes, I want to do extremely well on my SAT. I'm generally an A+ student, with the only exception of Honors Algebra 2 and Honors American Hist which I wasn't organized with myself and didn't hand in some work and the teachers were duly boring. I plan to self study for Calc AB as I'm making a jump from Honors Alg 2, and I'm a very good math student who is really interested in math.</p>
<p>AP Physics
AP Stat
AP English/Lit
AP Euro
AP Calc AB
French III</p>
<p>If it’s PhysicsC, I’m a bit concerned that you’re coming from Algebra 2, self studying Calc AB, and taking AP PhysicsC. If you want this to work out well, I’d get to work on Calc AB before the year even starts; you’re already at a disadvantage because you’re also lacking knowledge and skills that most get in a pre-calculus or trig class. </p>
<p>Some serious calculus plays a pretty important role in PhysicsC: E&M (much less so in PhysicsC: Mechanics, which requires only basic calculus knowledge).</p>
<p>If you’re talking about Physics B, you’ll be fine with these 5 classes</p>
<p>Side note, is there a reason you’re self studying Calculus AB rather than taking the class?</p>
<p>It’s AP Physics B. My mistake, I mentioned the wrong class. I meant that I’ll be self studying pre-calc because I’m making the jump from Alg 2 to Calc AB. Do you really need to take Pre-Calc before Calculus? I already have knowledge and experience doing some of the topics that would be taught in pre-calc. I didn’t waste a year taking a class that I already good at.</p>
<p>But what about 5 AP tests in May and the SAT? Is that too much? Can I just hold off into senior year?</p>
<p>I would do it - I had a similar schedule when I was a junior last year (5 ap classes) and it really wasn’t that difficult. The self study IMO will make it even easier.</p>
<p>Definitely possible to self-study pre-calc, most of it is review of algebra 2 and AP Calc does not make use of most of Pre-Calc advanced topics.</p>
<p>On an odd note, math classes beyond single-variate calculus actually do use those advanced pre-calc concepts. You use advanced vector operations, and expand upon them, in multivariate calculus. You use complex numbers and sinusoidal functions in differential equations. I’m sure there’s more, but I haven’t taken these classes yet, just done some overview self-studying.</p>