<p>I just found out today that my school cancelled their AP Gov class! I didn’t think schools could cancel AP classes that they offered. now i’m depressed, i only have 6 APs going into college Apps :(</p>
<p>They can and frequently do. My school has cancelled a few this year as well.</p>
<p>There are a couple of reasons why they might do this:</p>
<p>(1) There may not be qualified staff available to teach the course. At one of the other schools in our district, they cancelled a class, because the person who taught it previously retired, and they couldn’t find someone to teach the course.</p>
<p>(2) There may be insufficient interest in the course from a student enrollment perspective. I know my school requires a minimum of 24 interested students to offer the class. If that number was above during the registration process, but dropped over the summer due to students leaving, that might be enough to cancel the class.</p>
<p>(3) With the presence of the AP Audit, a teacher who failed the Audit process might cause the class to be cancelled. This would only apply for a teacher new to the course, but failing the Audit would mean that the school couldn’t legally place the AP title in the name of their courses. Of course, a teacher failing to earn a passing grade on the audit three consecutive times (technically, you just haven’t passed before this point) is rare.</p>
<p>(4) There may be other reasons for a class to be cancelled that are specific to the policies and bylaws of your particular school. They could be related to the contract that the teachers signed for your school, or they could be administrative decisions.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>now i need a different class. maybe psych AP? i heard that it’s pretty easy…</p>
<p>Are there any other APs being offered at your school? Can you take any courses at your local community college?</p>
<p>My son thought AP Psych was easy and got a 5 on the exam. However, I suggest you look at the catalogues of your top 3 colleges where you want to go to the most, and see if they will give you credit for AP Psych. Some colleges may only give “units”. It is best to take APs which fulfill core requirements.</p>
<p>DANG! ONLY 6!</p>
<p>Contact your colleges of interest. I think you’ll find that 6 will be more than sufficient.</p>
<p>@mdcissp
yes, there are more APs at my school, but i was hoping on AP gov for an easy AP
and also, i’m a bit more concerned right now with applications, not credits 
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<p>@Bigis
i know 6 is a lot, but i thought i could do better :</p>
<p>You can always do better, but is it necessary in this case?</p>
<p>You don’t know the answer to that question yet.</p>
<p>my school is small so it only requires 3 people to be enrolled in one class but classes still get frequently cancelled</p>
<p>just take the hardest load possible for your school, don’t compare yourself to people who are allowed to take a billion AP freshman year or something!</p>
<p>In one sense, if you’re up to it, a community college isn’t too bad of an idea right now.</p>
<p>In the other sense, just take the most rigorous classes that your school can offer (within your own reasoning of course), and colleges also take that into consideration. Obviously, not all schools are equally endowed, whether in terms of academics, extracurriculars, resources, etc. So they take a little more thought.</p>
<p>Just do the best you can, keep your interests in mind, community service wouldn’t be bad.</p>
<p>Btw…yes, I have also heard that AP Psych is pretty easy, but a class of an AP usually always can help if the teacher is competent and the students add to the environment.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t mind going to a community college, but that would have to be a night class right? i think that would make my junior workload a tab on the heavy side… idk, if i can get into AP psych, i’ll probably do that. if not, idk. maybe i’ll just take a bunch of electives and do 5-6 APs next year.</p>
<p>I don’t think it really matters. Like seriously, they’re going to stop caring around the fourth or fifth AP. Why stress yourself (unless you’re maintaining something like valedictorian?)?</p>
<p>You should “stress yourself”, because colleges like to see that you worked the hardest that YOU could. *Note, I said what YOU could do, as in, if 3 or 4 APs are enough for you and keep you mentally inclined, then so be it. If at 3 or 4 you are still not challenged enough, then take more.</p>
<p>Rigor is a key</p>
<p>idk, i really just want a blow off AP class to raise my weighted GPA without gaining extra workload. I thought gov would do it, but if it’s cancelled, meh, i’ll live :P</p>
<p>Rigor is rigor. </p>
<p>The difference between the fifth and sixth AP is not something they care about. If it was the difference between the first and the fourth, that’d be different.</p>