AP courses? When should I take them?

sophiamarie999
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:45:12 +0000

If you are already taking multiple AP classes, self-studying your junior or senior year will be awful and unnecessary. You seem to have a good balance in your schedule in the way you planned it out already. AP Psych would be the easier choice to study study though. Psych is much more memorization than AP enviro, because you do not need to teach yourself how different processes work. I would not advise starting later in the year as animefan suggested. It is not hard, but you still need to know a lot. It’s best to break it up so it is manageable.

Right now you are taking AP Human Geography and AP Spanish Lang. APHG is one of the easier AP classes and I’m assuming that you grew up speaking Spanish, so the class will likely be easier for you than other people who did not. Your schedules for junior and senior year will definitely be a step up, but they do not seem awful. Having a social life, being a part of extracurricular activities, and sleeping are important too. You still have plenty of time to make these decisions, and you will probably change your mind by then as well. Some people try to take all AP classes and cannot manage the workload. It is better to have a few AP classes, a few easier classes, and a life than trying to do too much and failing.