<p>My DD had to take regular physics instead of honors sophomore year (she later took AP) for scheduling reasons and so self-studied for the physics B test (and got a 5). She later got a 5-5 on AP Physics BC. So it was mostly to prove that she was only taking the regular physics out of necessity. Our (medium affluent public) school offered a lot of AP classes. Both my kids took 10-12 from sophomore year through senior. And scored well (4+ on all of them). So lots of AP classes is not crazy. </p>
<p>S1 self-studied AP Human Geography with a friend, passed with a 5 and got college credit. He took the classes for his other four, though. </p>
<p>My school offers a lot of AP’s
Chemistry, Physics 1+2, Psychology, World History, Literature, Composition, US History, Macro, Micro, Biology, Environmental Science, US Government, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Computer Science.
The problem is, you can only take a max of 7 or so due to scheduling, and only allowed to take World History as your first AP in sophomore year and some pretty silly prerequisites.
If scheduling isn’t an issue, the max you could take is somewhere around 11, but that’s if everything matches up perfectly and you knock out all graduation requirements, so it doesn’t happen very often. </p>
<p>S1 took Computer Science AP with self-study because he knew the teacher teaching the AP Comp Sci was a math teacher teaching Comp Sci for the first time. He studied from the prep book and got a 5.</p>