<p>School starts tomorrow for me… 
I’m really looking forward to AP Biology, I wonder what it’s going to be like. I think only like 15 people is going to be in my AP Chemistry class, you need at least 10 or 12 students to make a class official.</p>
<p>@ATP: Dude, being the only person in class sounds awesome. I hope they don’t cancel it on you! I, too, will be taking the October 6th SAT, which happens to fall on my birthday. Hopefully, I’ll get a good score and not have to take it again. </p>
<p>School starts tomorrow for me as well. I’ve been routinely sleeping past noon, so I don’t know how well I’ll take the 7am wake-up.</p>
<p>I really hope my AP chem class with 8 people doesn’t get cut.</p>
<p>Studious! My birthday is Oct. 4!! </p>
<p>haha but to everyone else: I already talked to the lady that does scheduling (we’re tight) and she said she won’t cancel it. Basically my school is tiny <60 in the High school I think. 3 of us signed up for AP Chem, the 2 girls dropped because it was too much (granted one was a korean exchange student so It was difficult for her with the language barrier). So I’m the only one left and they have already put the teacher through the training so why cancel it they said? So! 1 man AP Chem!</p>
<p>The few, the proud, the STAND BACK I’M DOING SCIENCE!!</p>
<p>Your AP Chem class has only 8 people and might get cut?</p>
<p>Haha. My Spanish IV class has only 6 people. My AP Biology class only has 4 people, and my AP Calculus class has a whopping 3 people including me. Not to mention I am an office assistant with only one other student, and my Computer Science course is online at the school, where I am alone in a room with only two other kids who are taking different classes on their own. My schedule is really lonely. =p</p>
<p>EDIT: It’s kinda funny, actually. Like half the kids drop out of AP classes the first week. Our APUSH class started with 22 kids, and now we’re down to 10 with a couple of the remaining kids thinking about dropping as well.</p>
<p>35 kids at my school signed up for AP Chemistry. I’m pretty sure that’s a record. But there’s no way all 35 will last; I foresee a 10-15 student reduction within the first week.</p>
<p>Rob I know how you feel, my AP Calc is 9 people, my AP Lit is 11, my AP chem is…me, then I have two solo online classes, then Physics is 10 and Psychology is down to 8</p>
<p>Woow a 2014 thread this is the first time I saw this. I was posting in the 2013 thread but not a senior :/. Anyways HI all :).</p>
<p>Hey! :)</p>
<p>Just wondering what you guys think of doing an independent study for Multivariable/Linear ALgebra along with a Physics C study? Online courses aren’t really cutting it and I have to write a proposal for my study, get that approved through the principal and then do a project/paper examining the subjects/possibly try out some computational modeling for evaluation. It sounds pretty good to me, but I’m worried about what colleges will think about it.</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I don’t think I have to worry too much about AP chem getting cut. I would guess that if a few people left, it would be cut. I think 8 people should be enough. But my school loves to screw the smart kids over.</p>
<p>Lucky you guys I have no APs in my school. Am going to have to self study. Also if I had a choice to take chem I think I would fail. Science isn’t my forte :/.</p>
<p>Yeah, having no AP’s must really suck. My school only has three AP’s (Chem, Bio, and English), but the district website says we have six. (They might have made economics, government AP again). I have no idea where they get six from. I know you have the option of taking the AP spanish exam after Spanish 4 or 5. I don’t think I’m going to do that well in AP chem. I struggled through the five chapter review, and the teacher doesn’t seem to be that good.</p>
<p>Gesh that sucks :/. I would just take AP english, just to have one.</p>
<p>If anyone else drops the class, it’s getting cut. Honors chemistry is mainly a junior class because sophomores have to double up with biology to take it (5 of us did it last year, which is more than usual, I think). Because of this, my teacher tells everyone to take physics senior year, so that they have BCP on their transcript (we take earth science frosh year). She also thinks AP Chem is the hardest class in our school (we don’t have many APs though- Calc AB is the only worthy contender), which naturally deters people.</p>
<p>Currently there’s 5 people in my class, and my school requires 10 kids to run an AP class; however, our school is at risk of not getting accredited again, so they’re running it to make our school look good.</p>
<p>@Miw: </p>
<p>Chapter 1: 12 problems
Chapter 2: 14 problems
Chapter 3: 14 problems
Chapter 4: 17 problems
Chapter 5: 19 problems</p>
<p>& most of the problems were broken down into subsections. The stoichiometry problems, for example, are all in 3+ parts.</p>
<p>We have a test the week we go back to school because the work is supposed to be an overview of everything we did in honors chem, but we didn’t really go into thermochemistry (ch. 5) during honors chemistry, and it was still the only thing that gave me trouble the entire year, so I don’t know how well I’m going to do.</p>
<p>@Josiah: It’s just a matter of how you go about understanding & approaching it. That’s why I like chemistry: it showed me a new way of thinking.</p>
<p>Hmm that’s interesting way of thinking about. I guess I have to keep an open mind for Chem this year. But school haven’t started yet 
:(. I can’t wait :)</p>
<p>I’m a big picture thinker vs. a details thinker, so I get lost when a bunch of details are thrown at me and they don’t fit together, or if I don’t understand how they all fit together. With chemistry, it all fits. It might not make the sense the day of the lesson, but if you really try to understand how everything fits together and you’re not just memorizing equations, you’ll be fine. </p>
<p>Whenever my teacher introduced fresh concepts, I’d usually get low B’s to low A’s (even some C’s) on the classwork, and then I’d pull off regular 100s on tests. The people around me would get so mad lmao. “TWO DAYS AGO YOU COULDN’T EVEN DO THIS, AND NOW YOU GET A 100 WHEN I GET A 78?!”</p>
<p>Lol that last line is funny XD. Yeah I think your right I barley ever studied for bio and that’s why I got an 85. If I would have studied I could have gotten a 90. I also really didn’t understand bio to much because like again I did not study. This really am going to study for Chen greatly.</p>
<p>My schedule Honors pre calculus, AP Psychology, Advanced marketing, AP Biology, AP antatomy and AP language and comp. I am also in the national honors society and am on the varsity golf team.</p>
<p>School started to today for me lol, and surprisingly, A LOT of people signed up for AP Chemistry, which is pretty amazing. Before it was only a few, but now, wow. AP Biology seems like it’s going to be fun this year and we start our first lab tomorrow.</p>
<p>@Nikegolf88 There’s an AP Anatomy…I never heard of it lol.</p>
<p>I finally got my schedule:</p>
<p>AP Calc BC
APUSH
Physics
AP Latin
AP Stats
AP Chem
English 11 Honors</p>
<p>All of my teachers are good, with the exception of my English teacher, whom I’ve never met. Calc BC, Physics, Latin, Stats, and English should be fine. APUSH and AP Chem will be tough.</p>