<p>Just want to get some ideas. Doing my freshman high school forecasting soon. :)</p>
<p>no one takes AP classes freshman year unless they are geniuses. i mean, some people who are math geeks take stats but thats about it.</p>
<p>APUSH... thats all my school allowed me to take...</p>
<p>At my school kids as freshman can either take AP Spanish or AP Psychology. Psychology I dont know why, but the reason they let us take spanish is because the most of us are native speakers.</p>
<p>My daughter took AP Euro and AP Psych her freshman year. As a sophomore she's doing APUSH, AP Bio and AP CS AB.</p>
<p>none.......we weren't allowed to........unless we were recommended to take AP US History by our World History Teacher...</p>
<p>At my school, no freshmen is allowed to take APs unless it's on FLVS. However, I know many at other schools took AP Human Geography</p>
<p>At my D's school, kids may take AP Human Geography and AP Bio (instead of Honors Biology)if they want. She took the AP Bio and got a 5 on the exam. </p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>My school didn't let anyone take APs as a frosh.</p>
<p>AP Stay on the Right Side of the Hallway</p>
<p>And that was about it.
I really don't think Freshman should be allowed to take APs. It's rather unnecessary. My school doesn't allow it, and we made Newsweek's Top 100 Public High Schools list.</p>
<p>It's hard enough transitioning into HS.</p>
<p>Some people take AP Bio, a couple geniuses take AP Calc AB.</p>
<p>i took AP world. one or two kids took calc bc</p>
<p>Just take some solid honors courses and don't worry about AP till at least next year. And even sophomore year, you probably wouldn't do more than one or two.</p>
<p>Looking at the AP report
<a href="http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/ap-report-to-the-nation-2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/ap-report-to-the-nation-2008.pdf</a>
as presented in another thread, most freshman take AP Human Geography.
I am interested how many top middle schoolers had problems transitioning into HS and AP classes?</p>
<p>Why would you? I mean, unless you seriously love learning, freshman year is IMO not a year for college prep. Freshman year should be about getting the feel for high school, figuring out some meaningful activities, and adapting to the new social situation.
Save the APs for junior/senior year, and maybe a small amount sophomore year. No one is going to tell you that you will be at a competitive disadvantage if you don't take AP classes freshman year.</p>
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You answered your own question :-)</p>
<p>I took none.</p>
<p>I don't believe too many freshman have the writing skills necessary to take AP courses. Perhaps a sprinkling of math geniuses could take AP Calculus AB or something, but that is probably it.</p>
<p>I took Human Geography, but that was a serious joke... No way could that class be considered college prep. We literally did nothing all year, the only reason I took the test was because I didn't want to fork up the $90 to not take it, and I ended up getting a 4 on it...</p>
<p>I took AP Calculus BC. but then again, I started accelerating early.</p>