<p>The application process at my school is over; I didn’t get into AP Lit =(</p>
<p>I’m a bit let down, because my guidance counselor told me I was basically in, and my teacher told me I deserved it the most. Blahh, rough getting over.</p>
<p>Now the question:</p>
<p>I already have AP Calc, AP Physics, and Latin IV</p>
<p>Do I want to take the scheduling risk of trying to fit in Bio?</p>
<p>I don’t know about your school, but Bio isn’t that hard. All it is, is a lot of work and memorization.</p>
<p>wow, an application process for AP’s…never heard of this. I guess this is how some schools insure that the percentage of students getting 4’s and 5’s on AP exams remains high.</p>
<p>Yea, last year we had 40 people apply. So they decided that, in order to keep scores high, to have this weird application process. They kind of shot themselves in the foot this year… about 17 applied… no reason for a process, really. </p>
<p>But I’m wondering- I’m more of a math person, hence the Calculus and Physics. I HATE memorization! So, for Bio, is it ALL memorization?</p>
<p>you’llsee, it could be that the teachers who teach the AP subjects only have room for so many blocks of a given course. If more people want to take that class than there are spots, some sort of process has to be created to sort out who should be in the class. </p>
<p>Bio isn’t really all memorization: some essay questions will have you synthesize stuff (“design an experiment to test the effect of light on a given animal,” etc.), but it is much more rote memorization than, say, Chemistry or Calculus (“compare the locomotion mechanisms of cnidarians and chordates in relation to their methods of feeding,” etc.).</p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>Do AP lit on your own. It’s totally not worth the time and essays spent in class.</p>