Freshman AP Test-takers?

owlice
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:11:42 +0000

tokenadult, I think the prereqs make it difficult to register for AP courses in my S’s high school, a large, suburban, comprehensive public school. This school has a number of different programs within it (American History Scholars, ROTC, Science and Technology), some with competitive entry, some not.

S is in Science and Tech (S/T), which is competitive entry and which has required courses for freshmen: Honors classes for English and History; math (class determined by results on math placement exam); Biology S/T; half a year of Engineering. This leaves 2.5 periods that are deemed electives, but as most if not all of these kids take a language, and all of the kids have to satisfy other graduation requirements (health, PE, fine arts), there is actually no room in the schedule for any AP course if a kid does what is wise and tries to fulfill some of the health/PE/FA graduation requirements early.

(S didn’t get into a PE class because of scheduling issues, doesn’t have room for it in his schedule next year, and how he’s going to fulfill that requirement… I don’t know. There’s a reason why the kids are strongly encouraged to get health/PE reqs out of the way early!)