<p>I’ve been putting off my TASP application. Probably should get started on that soon.</p>
<p>My school only has Spanish and French, the Spanish program is bad enough that you can take Spanish all four years of high school and barely be able to say two sentences. That being said my school encourages/supports taking classes outside of school. I will have earned 5 credits outside of school, four of which will be foreign language credits…</p>
<p>Has anybody started to figure out their schedule yet? I know I want to take AP English Lit, AP Bio, AP Calc, Anatomy and Yearbook. But I’m not sure what to take for my last class (I don’t have any more credit requirements I need to meet), maybe AP Stat or Ap Gov?</p>
<p>I have no idea what my school’s take is on outside classes. But they seem a bit discouraging about it. For example, even when I was failing Calculus, they weren’t very open to my own suggestion to them that I take the class elsewhere. I guess they don’t want to be held liable for accidents caused from students transporting themselves - most people walk or bike everywhere. </p>
<p>Which is unfortunate, because I wanted to take like AP World History, Human geography, or comparative politics outside of school - seems so much more interesting to me than APUSH (only AP History class available at my school). </p>
<p>I’ve already planned my schedule for next year. I know for sure I want to take AP English (I don’t know which AP English class my school offers but there’s only one of them), AP Chemistry, AP Econ, AP 2D Studio Art, and AP CompSci. </p>
<p>Some possible add-ons are AP Psych and some math class - I don’t know what I’m going to do for math next year since I will be done with all the math classes at my school. The local college stopped their agreement of letting high school students take college math there. I probably won’t take AP Psych though, I heard it’s quite a waste of time at my school. I feel I should definitely take a math class next year though… Some fellow students and I are trying to petition or something to the local college. Hopefully it’ll work by next school year.</p>
<p>I want two preps so I’ll probably do a 0 period and start my school day at 7:30 everyday. And then I would finish the schoolday by 1 PM. </p>
<p>@ArtsyGirl, I don’t know how the math classes are at your school, but at my school the math classes are generally known to be the hardest classes you could take (even in non-honors or non-AP classes). However, that being said, AP Stat is on the easier end of the spectrum. No idea about AP Gov… my school nor the other public school in the district has it.</p>
<p>AP Bio is a dismal class, ArtsyGirl. I’d advise you not to take it unless your teacher is <em>excellent.</em></p>
<p>I’ve been going back and forth about my senior course load. I want to take AP Comp Science, AP Physics B (maybe C if they let me), AP Spanish, AP Psych, Honors Speech, Art 1 (I need that art requirement to graduate ugh), and AP Calc BC (My school allowing me to take this is a reach, more of a reach than MIT tbh. See I’m in Algebra 2/Trig, next semester I plan to self study Pre-Calc with the help of my teacher, while we work on Trig in class since half of precalculus is actually trig. Then I will take Calculus over the summer and while I already have the college credit, I still want to take BC just to try it. But explaining to my counselor how I’m going to jump from Algebra 2/trig to AP Calc BC will be the hard part. )</p>
<p>@GrammerNazi The AP bio teacher at my school is supposed to be rather good and I want to be a neuroscience major in college so it makes sense to take it…</p>
<p>@QuidditchCat My school will not let us take a class somewhere else if we are failing it at school, but if our grades are strong they let us take outside classes. I am currently enrolled in Hebrew 5 and should be starting Psych 101 at a local college next month. I have two friends who just finished up Calc 3 at Pitt. It is really great that they let us take extra classes…</p>
<p>@TinnyT What if you took AB instead of BC, they might be more willing to let you skip a level if it is less drastic of a jump.</p>
<p>My school has no AP classes at all, major bummer. So next year my schedule is comprised of classes through some local community colleges. Except I might have to take a semester of gym. Ugghh.</p>
<p>@Brandewyn either does mine I just take the dual credit classes my school offers and self study for AP, but I don’t know if your school offers any advanced classes even 
sorry</p>
<p>Tentative Senior Schedule for me!
Advanced Literature
Advanced Government
Spanish 4
(Local College) Multivariable Calculus/Differential Equations MATH 307
AP Physics B (online)
Issues in a Modern World (class with no homework! :D) and Band second semester
Business Law then either Sociology or Psychology at a local community college</p>
<p>My school makes you take seven classes a semester… Is the norm 5? We have block scheduling so maybe that’s why we have so many.</p>
<p>*neither oops</p>
<p>The classes I can take are dual credit, that’s nice depending on where you want to transfer the credits. But we don’t have any advanced or honors classes at all. The majority of the classes are ag related or shop vocational techy stuff. Actual academic classes are meh. I took business law and college psych this semester and I liked them.</p>
<p>I’m literally dying right now. AASDJALKDJKLAS So much stress from my family and school tests and apps and omg.</p>
<p>If you’ve PMed me and I haven’t gotten back to you yet, it’s not cuz I’ve forgotten about you 
; I just have no time :eek: - I’ll get back to you as soon as break starts.</p>
<p>Ugh, and I’m STILL behind on stuff I need to get done. </p>
<p>Sometimes, I feel like junior year of HS is unnecessary hazing. I’m so stressed that I’m becoming eternally paranoid and jumpy.</p>
<p>@ArtsyGirl13 I could try that. I figured I might as well aim high so that way we can come to a medium (which would be them allowing me to take Honors Calculus or possibly AB).</p>
<p>^If you’re going to get credit for Calculus over the summer, what’s the point of going to the trouble of trying to convince your school to let you take BC?</p>
<p>Right now I’m thinking of taking AP Calc BC, AP Stats, AP English Lit, AP Bio, AP US Gov/Honors Economics (considering self studying AP) and Business Procedures, but I’m still unsure of taking so many APs senior year. I’m afraid of senioritis consuming me and that I’ll fail all my classes.</p>
<p>@WeIsCool: my school doesn’t have a set, required # of courses per semester, except for freshmen and sophomores - they must take 7 classes each semester. However, they require that we take at least four classes. A lot of students in my grade are taking 6 classes this year and 6 classes next year. I will probably end up taking 6 classes next year (this year I am taking 7). However I can end my schoolday at lunchtime, because they allow us to take classes before school officially starts. </p>
<p>@TinnyT: For the AP B/AP C thing, I’m not sure how your school works, but mine lets students take Calc and AP C concurrently. And then there’s some weird kids at my school who are somehow in AP Physics C and they are still in PreCalc 
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<p>The thing is, the calculus component isn’t that bad.
(cue my personal example of doing better in AP Physics C than in AP Calc AB. Okay, well, partly my bad grade in AP Calc AB was because my GC kept assuring me that it would be SO much easier and “less stressful” if I dropped down to AP Calc AB. So I was pretty careless and didn’t really study and my teacher was super-duperly annoyed.
rant begins/ all this could have been prevented had I just stayed in AP Calc BC lane. I already knew how to study for that lane and it totally f***ed up my rhythm. (as well as my chances for college, probably). and i can’t take BC Calc next year apparently. It was either AB or BC for topping off. but there’s no use crying over spilt milk /rant over)</p>
<p>OK, sorry that turned into a rant. Basically, I’m a pathetic loser who can somehow understand <em>harder</em> topics, then does terribly on tests, and is somehow hanging in there by the thread because of homework. And then all the “easy” stuff I can’t do at all. I probably shouldn’t bring up my personal examples anymore. They are tooo long </p>
<p>The point is, AP B physics tends to be more in-depth than AP Physics C. Sure, the topics in AP Physics C are harder to some point, but AP B Physics is just as bad in some cases. I would go for AP Physics C, but I’m probably the only one who would come up with that conclusion. This is my two cents, don’t care if it doesn’t get read. </p>
<p>That felt much better. Sorry. But it’s true. XP</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I’m taking AP Physics B, even if they do let me take C I still might go with B.</p>
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<p>Just to reinforce the concepts. Calc isn’t just some class I’m taking for credit like my history and english classes, I actually care about learning the material and want to make sure I understand everything.</p>
<p>@Brandewyn: uuuaaghhh T_T <em>cries forever</em> I always tell myself to work on it but SO LONG. At least it’s just the essays and not a ton of paperwork <em>nod nod</em></p>
<p>@GrammerNazi: What say you about self-studying?</p>
<p>Quick question i know is in the middle of a different discussion, so sorry, but:</p>
<p>what’s the point of taking APs senior year? honestly, since colleges won’t know what you got on the exams…is it solely for the rigor?</p>
<p>@efeens44: I think it is partially to show that no, we are not getting afflicted by senioritis but I also I have some different reasons. First of all, if I were to continue naturally through high school, the APs are the only classes left. Secondly, then I don’t have to deal with the idiots in my grade who aren’t in APs.
^^ This sounds kind of harsh, but unfortunately it is true. Right now I’m in regular history since otherwise my school would have never let me take 2 AP sciences in one year. My history class comprises of a few people like me who would rather not have to deal with the APUSH work. But mostly there are the idiots who have like a 1.5 GPA and they are always in trouble with the teacher and/or police. My teachers always get super annoyed at them and take out their anger on the whole class. Because they can’t show favoritism, no? </p>
<p>But yeah, those are my reasons.</p>
<p>oh yeah, and also I’m pretty sure there is some way colleges know about your AP exam scores. My sister who’s a sophomore in college right now skipped past the intro chem at her school since she got a 5 on the Chem AP exam.</p>
<p>^Agreed about the AP’s senior year. I have already exhausted my school curriculum otherwise. When you go to college, you submit your AP scores and can apply for credit or higher placement in a class. For instance, my friend went to Washington University, St. Louis and majored in business. She didn’t have to take any science classes there because she took all the AP science classes while in high school, got good scores, the school accepted it as college credit, and she fulfilled her requirements. 
She is graduating early</p>