@athenanv13 I have to run in front of my class, but no speech or anything (which turns it into essentially a PURE popularity contest). Everyone in my class knows me, but they also know everybody else. (We’re ~49 students).
@cocolover123 The native speaker will be able to take the AP/IB foreign language courses early in 9th and 10th grade when most of us take Spanish 1 and 2 or French 1 and 2 so then in later years they will be able to take more AP classes while the rest of us are still completing the foreign language requirement. So in all, they will take more weighted courses over their high school years, and will therefore have a higher cumulative weighted GPA.
@dsi411 Hmm okay… you see it wouldn’t happen like that in my district. Even if the student came straight from Spain and speaks no english at all, they can’t jump to AP. They have to go through every individual level and just get the easy A, perhaps. But my school made the AP foreign languages so hard that even native speakers are failing!
I’m nervous for AP Spanish next year, in conclusion.
How many AP’s are you guys all taking for your junior year schedule?
Next year I’m taking:
IB HL English I / AP English Lit
IB SL Spanish I
AP Calc BC
AP Biology
IB SL Psychology
IB HL History 1 / AP US History
And I guess Theory of Knowledge since I’m doing full IB diploma. This class isn’t during the school day, though.
So yes, all AP and IB classes, but I hear Spanish and Psych are really easy. I’m most nervous about HL English because apparently they do a lot of Socratic seminars in that class. I’m actually not that bad at presenting but anything that involves a graded class discussion I am terrible at. First of all, I’m too nervous to even say anything and secondly, I can’t formulate my thoughts when everyone is staring at me waiting for me to say something!
Ahh all of you are talking about AP Spanish and I can barely get thru Spanish 2! My teachers test are ridiculous, and nobody has an A, and half of the Spanish speakers in the class are barely making B’s. I wish they offered my native language as an AP or SAT 2.
My parents speak Igbo (a Nigerian language), but they never taught me it, and even if they did, there’s no AP exam for that language.
@dsi411 my school doesn’t offer IB 
but i have an all AP schedule as well…
your schedule is very intense and I like that!!
Honestly is IB harder than AP? and how so?
Classes I’m taking (I’m still debating whether to do IB or AP at my school)
If I do IB:
IB English HL I
IB French V SL
IB European History HL I
IB Biology HL I
IB Physics SL
AP Calc BC
TOK
If I do AP:
AP European History
AP Language and Composition
Regular French
AP Physics C: Mechanics
AP Calc BC
AP Stats
Programming for iPhone Apps
Either way, I’m self-studying these courses:
AP Psychology
AP Computer Science A
Maybe AP Stats if I take the IB route
I’m soooo indecisive. I’ve should have made the decision months ago. I actually heard that IB is the easier route because the teachers collaborate to make sure no test falls on the same day. It’s all weighted to raise my GPA. I also like how AP is more specialized so I can take more courses in math and science. I don’t know. Can you guys give me any advice on which one I should choose?
@cocolover123 The IB classes can be easier or harder than their AP counterpart depending on the class, what makes the IB program more difficult is the extra things you have to do to get the IB diploma, like taking the Theory of Knowledge class, completing CAS hours (Creativity Action Service, you need at least 150 hours), and the Extended Essay, which is a 4000 word essay/research paper on a topic of your choice.
Oh wow, the essay part is interesting.
There’s only one school with IB in my county and it’s ironically the worst school of the county literally. It has high crime rates and is far away from the rest of the schools of the county, and is in a really bad neighborhood. There are so many rumors that the majority of the students have to deal drugs for a living and many gangs are nearby.
But then there’s the 5% of the school instilled in the IB program and they put the IB classes in a completely different building of the school, so all the IB students are around each other and not the rest of the school’s population. So with this situation, the school is actually a higher academic rank than my school lol.
I feel like the state purposely put the IB program in that specific school to help elevate its social rank and situation, because it was in awful shape before the IB came 
Now it has a lot of smart and intellectual students enrolling there for its IB, when otherwise, no one wanted to go there unless they had to.
@athenanv13 You know how there’s a box on your college applications that your counselor has to check saying whether you took the most rigorous course load at your school? Do you know if they’ll check that at your school if you only take AP? At my school the counselors will only check it if you’re a full IB diploma candidate. You might consider that when choosing between AP and IB. If I were you I’d definitely choose IB, knowing my school and how most of the high-achieving students do full IB, but the situation could be different at your school. The only reason I was hesitant about IB was because of class discussions and oral presentations and things like that, but hopefully that isn’t an issue for you.
Courses I’m taking next year (if I get the ones I want)
AP US History
AP Psychology—really excited for this!!
AP Chemistry
AP Language
Precalculus
Physics (no honors)
Spanish 3
I’m really nervous about how all the AP classes will be, since people keep telling me that AP Lang and Chem are really hard, and APUSH is a new class for my school.
Yeah, @athenanv13, I agree with @dsi411 . The IB diploma, along with a couple of AP classes, would probably be the best/most rigorous courseload.
@bbbaaa784 AP Chem is hard, AP Lang is easy. Just my opinion–I took those two classes this year. Hopefully you’ll get a good teacher for AP Chem, I’m sure that’ll help.
@dsi411 Lol, is there really? At least I’ll be getting that check.
@bbbaaa784 AP Chem is super easy, at least is was for me. Idk about AP Lang and APUSH, can’t take humanities APs until senior years.
@dsi411 I didn’t know that the counselors check that box! Thanks for your advice! I am definitely leaning towards IB but there’s still a little part of me that wants to do AP. I don’t know, I still have 2 months to decide!
I’m only taking one AP next year (Chemistry). My school doesn’t offer AP Lang and requires kids to take Latin IV Honors before AP Caesar & Vergil, so only history and math could be AP. I’m not taking APUSH – I don’t have all the prereqs, and I’m sort of glad I don’t (I’m not a history person, and the class is said to be one of the most work intensive and most unfulfilling at my school) – and I’ll be taking post-AP math (Multivariable at school and hopefully Linear Algebra and Differential Equations at a local university). I do hope everything will be okay.
I’m not really looking forward to leaving this year’s schedule behind. My AP Physics C class took a while to get used to, but once I got situated, it became my favorite class. I’m going to miss the small size, the wonderful teacher, some of the friends I made in that class, and the ultra-relaxed atmosphere.
@dsi411 Yeah, my school is really small so I’ll have my Chem Honors teacher for AP Chem, and she’s a really good teacher.I’m worried about AP Lang because I had the teacher for Journalism and she made a lot of simple things hard to understand and assigned a crazy amount of work.
Next year, I’ll be taking:
AP Physics 1
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
Honors English 11 (no AP Lang at my school T-T)
AP Human Geography
US History
Marching Band (first semester)
I’m not going to deal with APUSH; BC, Physics, and Chem are already absurdly hard at my school.
@pseudoprimal A magnet school? If that’s what you were looking for…