<p>AP Human Geography
Honors Biology
Honors English 9
German 2 (took German 1 in eighth grade)
Honors Geometry
PE/Health
Concert Band</p>
<p>Weight lifting (1 sem)
Journalism (1 sem)
Honors English 9
Geometry
PE (1 sem)
History elective (1 sem)
US History
Biology</p>
<p>I don’t go to one of those stupid schools that lets underclassmen take a bunch of APs/honors classes. It is rare for an underclassmen to take an AP, and I took the only honors class available, yet we’re one of the best schools in the state.</p>
<p>English H
Bio H
World History H
Latin 1
Music/Art (1 semester each- technically the same course)
Geometry
Computer</p>
<ul>
<li>Freshmen English, “Advanced” but not weighted/honors/etc.</li>
<li>World History</li>
<li>Japanese 3</li>
<li>Trigonometry ‘H’ but not actually honors/weighted</li>
<li>Intro to Programming (1st semester), Intro to Java (2nd semester)</li>
<li>Advanced Bio but not honors/weighted</li>
<li>Freshmen PE </li>
</ul>
<p>I also could not take APs/honors freshmen year. However, if you are from a different school, they’ll reconsider. So, a lot of people go to a private middle school and then go back to the public system in high school so they can load up on honors/APs starting freshmen year. I did not have such luxury. </p>
<p>“I don’t go to one of those stupid schools that lets underclassmen take a bunch of APs/honors classes. It is rare for an underclassmen to take an AP, and I took the only honors class available, yet we’re one of the best schools in the state.”</p>
<p>I’m a bit offended by this. I took an AP class as a freshman (the only one offered to freshmen), got an A and received a 4 on the exam. Just because a school allows underclassmen to take higher level courses does not make the school stupid, it means there are students willing to push themselves that attend.</p>
<p>AP classes are supposed to be at the college level. I don’t think most fourteen-year-olds are ready for college, so when a school has really high numbers of freshmen in AP classes I tend to assume the AP classes aren’t as challenging as they should be (unless the high school has selective admissions and everyone there is brilliant). Of course, that probably also applies to a lot of regular college classes with 20-year-olds in them.</p>
<p>Maybe that sounded a little harsh, but I don’t think that freshmen and sophmores should be taking a multitude of APs. Maybe I’m a little defensive because I see people have 10+ APs which I think is ridiculous, and I can barely have 6. There are plenty of students “willing to push themselves” at my school, but rarely will an underclassmen be able to take an AP. In fact, a nearby school that is ranked higher than us only has 6 APs I believe.</p>
<p>Only one AP class is available to freshmen, and two are available to sophomores (one with required teacher recommendation) at my public high school. AP Human Geography is the freshmen one, so it’s not a hard class, but it’s still more work than a regular social studies class. I did fine in it and so did most of my classmates. AP Biology and AP US History are the sophomore ones. I didn’t do as well as I would have liked in APUSH (couldn’t fit Bio in my schedule), but I know several people who did just fine and scored fives on both exams. There are some fourteen year olds who are absolutely able to handle AP classes, but several who think they can can’t. Too many AP classes seems to be a common problem for all grades, not just underclassmen. </p>
<p>In theory, I mostly agree with Ch1746. I don’t think that most freshman should take AP, but there are exceptions. Students with an accelerated math/science background from middle school may be suited for AP as an example. I personally think the College Board should discontinue Human Geo and Environmental Science, because these are joke courses,and everyone knows it, including top colleges that don’t even give credit for these tests.</p>
<p>I agree that AP Human Geography is very easy and I think that’s why my school decided to have it be a freshman course (there aren’t any freshmen honors social studies classes at my school). There were only about 35 kids that took APHuG out of a class of 335 (not anywhere near “most of”). I really think that AP ability is an individual thing and that freshmen shouldn’t be evaluated as part of the whole group.</p>
<p>Honors Biology
Spanish 1 (they didn’t offer honors)
Honors English I
Honors American History (best class ever, best teacher ever)
Algebra 1 (they didn’t offer honors for that either. I would’ve taken Geometry but everything got messed up. it’s ok though because I’m in Calc as a senior.) </p>
<p>Very basic and boring classes. Totally regret it. Sophomore year was way better and junior year will be even more better. </p>
<p>Geometry
English 9
Biology
PE
Journalism
Spanish I </p>
<p>English 1
(Intro/pre-physics/chem class)
U.S History
French 2
Marching/Concert Band
Algebra I
Introduction to Computer Literacy (semester)
Gym (semester)</p>
<p>I took no honors classes fresh year… took one sophomore year, and now I’m taking about 3/4 this year, and next year all of them will be. I’ve come a long way !</p>
<p>Honors Algebra 2 & Trig
Honors English
Honors California History/ Honors Geography
Molecular Biology
French 1
Freshman PE</p>