<p>My school is probably 50% black and Hispanic, the rest white (there are like 4 Asians). APs tend to be maybe 10-15%, 20% tops, black and Hispanic, though: if you compare regular level courses to AP courses you wouldn’t at all think it was the same school, or even country. Interestingly enough, I’ve taken the most tests, and I’m Hispanic. Sometimes we do achieve :)</p>
<p>Gender-wise, #1 in our class is a guy, next two girls, then a guy, then mostly girls for a bit. Girls tend to work harder, and I definitely wouldn’t say it has anything to do with them just being smarter than the guys. I’m sure they’re of comparable intelligence, it’s just the guys tend to not care nearly as much about school in the traditional sense. At the risk of sounding sexist, there are more girls in my AP courses that don’t like the classes at all, they just know it will look good for college, whereas the guys are less likely to care about that so they don’t bother with the course. That could be a negative for either sex, though :). The guy that has passed the second highest number of APs in our school is lower in class rank because he doesn’t do much, he just scores (relatively) highly on the AP exams. I’m not sure how well schooling is structured for male learning styles, but that’s for another thread.</p>