I currently plan on either double majoring or doing a major-minor, and I will need lots of college credit hours to do this. I have my classes laid out for next year and my senior year, but I need to change it up some to get more AP classes. Can someone help me with if I should take 2 or 3 AP classes online with about 3 AP’s at school? They will be AP Psychology, APUSH, AP Stats, AP Chemistry, and AP Computer Science Principles. Is it worth taking AP Stats and AP Comp Sci online?
I recommend you talk with your guidance counselor - some high schools recognize AP credits/exams & others may not and some colleges give credit for AP exams (there is a limit though) and others give very little and it may depend on getting a certain score such a a 4 or 5. Taking a reasonable amount of APs and during well in them makes sense. Will you take AP Lang or AP Lit or AP Calculus? What is it you are thinking of majoring / minoring in in college - take some APs that are relevant to that if possible and do well - preferably in a live class rather than online if possible.
I am planning on double majoring in Business Management and Economics. If this doesn’t go as planned then I want to major in Business Management and minor in Econ. I plan on attending West Point, the University of Virginia or South Carolina, or the Citadel.I plan on taking AP Language and Lit. I really want to exempt a lot of the gen eds. I already plan on taking 4 APs at school next year, but I just want more credit. @CA1543
How many APs are you currently taking and how many would you be taking junior and senior year?
AP psychology typically doesn’t carry credit. You’ll need to retake statistics in college so don’t take it as AP to skip it. AP stats is not strong enough for an economics major.
Look a your college and how the give credit.
Double majoring in business and economics will be relatively easy since there are a lot of cross over classes.
Don’t take APUSH and AP Psych the same year. I have it this year along AP Lang/Comp and I just want it to end and I can enjoy sleeping again.
Unless you have an IQ of 150+, not doing any extra-curriculars, and not taking any other AP, no one really should take APUSH in my opinion…
^guessing NewByzantine is having trouble in APUSH…
@NewByzantine I’ve heard otherwise. Almost everyone gives credit for it. Plus I already have the teacher for something else this year and she’s awesome.
@szarour Why do you say that? I have a friend (granted he is the current salutatorian of his class) who is taking AP Psych, APUSH, AP Chem, and AP English Language right now and hasn’t made less than a 98 and he tells me I should definitely do it.
Take a look at a few of the colleges you are interested in and see how they apply AP credit. Some don’t accept AP credit for GE requirements while others will for a few, and some will cover more. The college board website under AP credit also lists this with a link to the school.
@MYOS1634 Nope, HS sophomore, I justify my opinion because I have a friend that’s a year older doing APUSH, and he had to turn down placement in college level physics so he could concentrate on history, and he is still not doing great in the class (86). He’s really a smart kid, he got a 98 in honors chemistry.
@ryanalexander116 I’ve heard it’s very hard and the teachers expect that this is the only AP you are taking, so they give you tons of homework and make you read a lot of stuff. What they teach is not necessarily what’s on the test. And teachers vary from school to school. In my opinion, people fail classes because of bad teachers. If you feel like you have a good teacher, you’ll probably do good in your class. I’ve heard some bad things about AP history teachers in general. This year, the AP world history teacher was arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with a student…
@NewByzantine Maybe where you live, but I don’t know of one bad teacher at my high school. All of the teachers are great and are willing to help you individually if you need it. I am just scared about how reading out of a textbook each night will go along with my other extracurricular activities, such as cross country, orienteering, and NJROTC.
I go to a highly ranked high school in the region, it was a very big shock to learn about the incident to everyone. You really should consider dropping an ec that you don’t really care about, that’s what my guidance counselor said.
I know a girl that takes honors classes, and does a ton of extra curricular activities. She never was that smart to begin with (solid B student), but she never dropped any of her extra curriculars and her gpa plumeted down to the 2.0s, due to the fact that she couldn’t study enough for tests or do homework. This quarter she dropped all but 2 extra curriculars and she’s back in the 3.0-3.4s I’m pretty sure you are smarter than her, so you would fare much better.
@NewByzantine I’m already dropping student council.
It it depends on the teacher cause all 3 of my teachers give A LOT of work so it’s a heavy load and a lot of reading