<p>shinexalive: Self-studying Bio? I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have oodles of free time at your disposal.</p>
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<p>You’re the only person I’ve ever heard to say that, haha. My sense of Physics B is that it’s a really general survey course of a bunch of different topics which is IMO, good for an introductory course. Physics C kind of sets up the actual basics.
(For instance, physics B doesn’t even cover Maxwell’s equations).</p>
<p>I think AP Bio is a doable self study, definitely more doable than either Physics C or Chem (Which I’m doing) because a) the labs aren’t really that helpful and b) this year, the exam is more about big ideas and stuff. However, it is time intensive.</p>
<p>Do you guys have any fun classes you’d like to take next year? I want to take Philosophy; the fellow who teaches it is really smart. I think the interdisciplinary melding of psychology, sociology, philosophies (ideologies) and neurology is very, very cool. </p>
<p>Next years schedule: (Hopefully)
- AP Lang (online) or self study or, maybe my school will get it.
- AP Physics B; self study Physics C (will probably do for real)
- AP Euro
- grade 12 French (online) or self study, if I can manage to finish grade 12 french this year
- Math depends on how much work I can get done this year.
- Philosophy, maybe self study AP Gov Pol or AP Psych or AP Econ if I feel like it. </p>
<p>Alternatively, I might move senior year, so who knows how that will turn out.
Despite the apps, I feel senior year will actually be less stressful in terms of workload. The very thought of senior year and finally graduating is strangely shocking for me. Ah, well- we will see!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, by the way, I meant to mention in my earlier post about my sister that she took AP Chem senior year… I just realized I forgot about that :P</p>
<p>AP Bio is not that hard to self-study in my opinion. Mostly the course at school is a lot of busy work and the labs don’t really relate.
Just pretend you’re like studying for the USABO, and I’m pretty sure it’ll be fine. (USABO is supposedly harder than IB/AP classes although I personally don’t think so. Perhaps in the national level but I’ve never made it to there). </p>
<p>It’s only as time-intensive as you want it to be in order to get a decent score on the AP exam. You may want to get people to check your writing, though. I think, but I may be mistaken, that the test is two essays and multiple choice? I might be mixing it up with something else…</p>
<p>@ecouter11, haha most people think that… Well I guess it depends… are you talking about Mechanics, E&M or both? I’m talking both. Perhaps it’s just my school though. Sometimes AP B students ask me questions and I’m like, what? we never got that far into that topic. I guess on the AP exam, AP B seems more of a general survey, because AP C has more on mechanics and stuff like that. I would link the info to this but right now I’m not finding it… </p>
<p>Also, that’s cool - I wish the philosophy class at my school was like that. The way you put it makes it sound so much more interesting than at my school. I guess mainly because you put neurology on there… I’m thinking of majoring in neuroscience, and maybe minor in philosophy or something. </p>
<p>I want to take a different AP history class than APUSH, it seems on here, my school is almost the only one without non-APUSH AP history classes. Actually, my district doesn’t offer them, so I would probably have to take the AP exam further away. T_T </p>
<p>Fun classes? What’s that? JK
first of all, I don’t think my school district has like any fun classes, as it’s mostly Asians and they’re always like “create ALL the APs and then take ALL the APs” </p>
<p>well, I’m Asian, but I’m perfectly happy with the # of APs at my school except for the whole History thing. If there were any more, they would need to let us take APs from freshman year - which they think is “too stressful.”</p>
<p>Right now, those that I’m aware of that are considered “fun” are Biotech, Auto, Foods, Graphic Design, Photo, 2D studio, animation, law, philosophy, and I think that’s it. Perhaps there’s more, but nobody around me (mostly Asians) ever talks about them. Because they don’t take them - they’re like, “oh no, there goes my 6.0 weighted GPA” or something like that. well, that was an exaggeration, but I think you get the point.</p>
<p>but I realized I might actually take the full 7 classes. I’d forgotten about APES, but I’m still debating whether I should take it or not. The teacher is a nice guy but sucks at teaching. I’m not too interested in APES. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a very environmentally conscious individual, but the class doesn’t appeal. I don’t know if I should be stereotypically Asian and take it just for the “easy A” AP credit, or just have a prep. </p>
<p>Also, I’m not too certain how I’d do in AP CompSci (I know some C, but not as well in Java)</p>
<p>oh geez, that was the longest post ever
sorry about that
I guess it was kind of a stream of consciousness thing.
Plus excess energy from after my first final of the week.</p>
<p>@Quiddith: APUSH is the only history AP in my school.</p>
<p>We have AP Chem, Bio, Calc AB, Calc BC (if you do an independent study), Language & Composition… I think that’s it. And those classes only run with 10+ students. My Chem class has 5 students and is running only because my school is ghetto as all get-out, so they wanted to keep the class to make us look less terrible than we actually are, although it won’t happen again next year.</p>
<p>Finally done! Today was the last real school day, tomorrow is a fun/half day! Christmas break here I come. So I wanted to ask how big your schools are, like how many students?</p>
<p>Over 2000 students.</p>
<p>@lldm21, well then I guess it’s only previous posters (like the last 4 pages or so)</p>
<p>Tomorrow I have my AP Calc AB final, and then I have my AP Bio final after brunch. And then on Friday I have AP Physics C final. I know I’ll be so relieved when it’s all done but I’ll probably have a massive heart attack when I get notified of the scores on them. </p>
<p>My school is exactly 1893 as of now. Unless someone moved away today and they haven’t counted that yet.</p>
<p>Wow. Mine is barely hovoring around 200 students for all four grades.</p>
<p>Our school has about 1,500+ maybe.</p>
<p>Winter break for me doesn’t start until Friday…longest week ever -.- First, we had a killer AP Biology test and the rest of the day was total chill because our school attempted to make a school wide mob dance to Gangnam Style during 4th block. I didn’t participate, I chilled in a classroom and did some homework.</p>
<p>My school is around 1400 kids. About 325 to 350 kids per grade</p>
<p>Mine’s around 600.</p>
<p>2400 in my school, ~600 for each grade.</p>
<p>Wow, we have around 500 in the high school, 800 including the middle school (we are a 6-12 school). My class has 120, there are always less students among upperclassman grades because you have to audition to attend and it is rather hard to get in if you are not applying for 9th grade/we kick out people every year because they don’t have a high enough GPA.</p>
<p>I think mine is a little under 4000. My freshman class had 1017 students and then it exponentially decreased each semester.</p>
<p>do any of you smoke? or tumblr?</p>
<p>Smoke, no. Tumblr, yes.</p>
<p>My HS has around 300 kids, with my junior class the largest at ~80 kids. I have never and plan to never smoke anything. I had a tumblr when I was in, oh, was it 7th grade? It was just to follow people, but I shut it down after like a week. A few years later it really got popular, but by then I was feeling too hipster to join again LOL</p>
<p>Anybody else super procrastinating for finals? It is like 10:45 here and I have 3 big finals tomorrow… lawlz</p>
<p>Our finals our the week after break. I’m leaving for my youth group trip to Boton tomorrow though and haven’t finished packing…</p>