<p>My school requires you receive straight A's on all marking periods, midterm, and final exam in an honors class of that subject before you can do AP. I was just wondering how other schools go about it...</p>
<p>We apply for APs in February.
There’s alway more applicants than there are spaces, so its on a competitive basis on marks</p>
<p>Sign up. </p>
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<p>There’s some sort of vague teacher evaluation-thingy involved, but it’s pretty much just GPA at my school.</p>
<p>Just get your previous teacher in the subject area to sign your form and recommend you.</p>
<p>My school has a registration form online.</p>
<p>AP Bio: A or B in Honors Bio
AP Chem: A or B in Honors Chem</p>
<p>Prereqs that go as far back as 9th or 8th grade</p>
<p>My school just removed all prerequisites for all classes so just sign up, but even before that you would take AP Chem or AP Physics without any background in the subject. </p>
<p>Although a lot more people drop or fail AP classes now.</p>
<p>Sign up. For calc, physics, and chem you have to get a b or higher in honors pre-calc, honors physics, and honors chem respectively. And then for bio you have to have taken human anatomy and physiology. And that’s it. Teachers can recommend you don’t take a particular ap class, in which case you have to sign a form promising not to drop the class during the year, but that rarely happens as usually only capable students sign up.</p>
<p>We have to fill out these AP forms and get them signed by the relevant AP class’s teacher (who can reject us taking the class) and the relevant department head. Form asks for previous related classes and their grades. </p>
<p>Classes with prerequisites (APUSH has USH I Hon., AP Calc AB has Pre-Calc Hon., etc.) require an A average in the prerequisite class. </p>
<p>Pretty much, it’s just a bunch of running around and finding random teachers/department heads who 1) hide, 2) are busy. Gives us a bit more exercise than writing phony essays.</p>
<p>At our school you simply have to pass the prereq class (HPC for calc/stats, H Chem for AP Physics/ AP Chem, H Bio and H Chem for AP Bio, into to compsci for AP compsci, and well you get the idea)</p>
<p>Nothing, just sign up. You’re allowed to take AP Calc even if you failed Pre Calc. The only classes with a Prerequisite are AP Bio and AP Chem, and all you have to do is have taken the honors course before. I guess that explains why usually only one person passes the test per class lol…</p>
<p>Be able to fog a mirror. I wish they’d require more than that.</p>
<p>AP Courses in my school are offered openly to students. I attend a small school so aside form US History most AP Courses only have one class. For our school it is required that you take the pre-requisite courses e.g. to take AP Chem the courses required are: Honors Chem (or regular Chem with TONS of additional summer material) and Algebra II. The department head also has to give the signature of approval. Honestly, it isn’t very competitive, also aside from AP Music Theory no AP Courses are available until junior year 
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<p>Nothing. All you have to do is sign up.</p>
<p>For most AP classes you must take the honors class before it and get at least a B. Some don’t have pre-reqs and my school, in my experience, is pretty lenient on letting kids get around some of the pre-reqs if it looks like they can handle the class, so if one really wanted to take an AP but didn’t necessarily meet the pre-reqs you could just go to your guidance counselor and perhaps some of the other higher administrators and plead your case. If they really think you can’t handle the class based on your previous performance, they’ll tell you and ultimately deny you the class but if you have the support of your parents or teachers they’re inclined to let you take the class.</p>
<p>You need to have an A in whatever class it was. All AP sciences have math co-requisites, which is annoying.</p>
<p>At my HS it used to be available to anyone until freshmen started to fill their entire schedule with AP’s so now the policy has been changed to be based on what the school “feels” is appropriate. It’s still pretty easy to get around though, especially if your teacher in a relevant subject likes you.</p>
<p>Sign up and meet prerequisites and sign a waiver that you won’t drop the class.</p>