<p>Will 4 AP classes be too much wor for a hs senior?</p>
<p>I’m thinking of taking AP lit, AP stat, AP environmental, and AP Italian</p>
<p>I’m not a senior yet but most people on this site don’t see Stats or Environmental Science as hard classes. But they are AP’s. Most likely there will be work. If you know Italian already you should be fine.</p>
<p>No. AP Statistics and AP Environmental Science are widely considered as two of the easiest AP classes.</p>
<p>The highest mean grade for AP stat in the last decade was a 2.92. The highest for AP Environmental was 2.66.</p>
<p>I don’t see how these classes can be considered “easy”</p>
<p>I think I will be able to manage these classes, but I was hoping someone who had already completed the college process could speak as to whether this workload was too heavy for someone simultaneously completing college apps</p>
<p>Not at all.
I am taking AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Physics C: E and M, AP Biology double block, AP Differential Equations with Complex Analysis and AP English IV College Composition.</p>
<p>bluestar226, you also have to take into consideration who is taking these courses. Physics C’s mean grades and higher than Stat and ES but that doesn’t mean that Physics C is an easier test.</p>
<p>My opinion on Enviro: I honestly believe that people think that the APES class/test is going to be super easy (and for some people, like me, it is/was), so they completely slack off in the class/don’t study at all for the test, and they get a rude awakening once they actually take the test…</p>
<p>At least, that was my experience of the class at my high school. 
There’s actually a lot of memorization involved, but that’s about it. A lot of memorization and common sense.</p>
<p>Also taking 4 AP’s as a HS Senior (Bio, Comp Sci, Lit, Gov), but from my experience taking 4 AP’s no matter how hard they’re considered is a lot of work regardless of the rigor. I can’t talk about Stat, but from what I’ve heard it’s not that easy at the school i go to. I took Enviro last year and felt that it was also a lot of busy work. It mostly just depends on how the course is run at your school.</p>
<p>I didn’t take the class for AP enviro, but I did take the test. I got a 4 (I felt like I got a 5) and I only studied the night before (I took a practice test). I knew alot of the stuff from self studying AP biology and from taking honors chemistry. If you have experience in biology + chemistry you’ll find the class as a joke. If you are awful at biology and chemistry you may find it challenging. </p>
<p>People at my school call AP Stats AP calculator class. I was going to take it this year, but it wouldn’t fit in my schedule; its considered somewhat of a joke here. </p>
<p>AP Lit is hard… I’m in it right now and I don’t like it. </p>
<p>You’ll be fine with only 4. I’m in 5 right now and its a good bit of work, but I have plenty of free time (Micro/Macro, Gov, Calc AB, Lit, and Physics B)</p>
<p>AP Environmental was easier than any of my honors science courses - a lot of it is second nature/common sense type stuff and the rest is pretty much light memorization. The low mean score is because a lot of kids take APES with very low expectations and then subsequently do the bare minimum, if that, and then screw themselves over for the test.</p>
<p>What…
I have the lowest grade out of all my classes in stats right now</p>
<p>What the hell is AP Differential Equations…it should just be DEQ.</p>
<p>^ People on here do that a lot, make up AP courses because their high schools offer their equivalents.</p>
<p>I’m a senior and this semester I have 3 AP classes (Stats, Lit & Physics) plus a college-level Spanish class and engineering course that will get me credit at certain schools. It’s not all that challenging, really. I’ll be doing a 4th AP for sure next semester (Gov) and possibly a 5th as an Independent Study (Economics). It’s stressful at times (especially since my teachers love to give tests all on the same day…) but all in all not bad. </p>
<p>And I agree - Stats isn’t all that easy. It’s my lowest grade by a long shot (91%, A- vs. 96% in my second lowest, and 98.5% in my third). It’s definitely easier than Calc was, but far harder than Lit, Psych, Lang, etc.</p>
<p>I’d say that AP Statistics is fairly easy (97%), but I’ve always been a Stat person; for some reason, the class just clicks with me. If you’re not, I can see it being difficult.</p>
<p>Overall, four AP classes are certainly doable, but it will take quite a bit of work.</p>