How many APs is too many?

skieurope
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:49:35 +0000

APSpan is notoriously hard for non-native speakers. My school does not even let you take it unless you speak it in the home and natively.

As a non-native speaker who scored a 5 on both Spanish Language and Spanish Literature, I personally do not believe it’s true. The fact that your school doesn’t let non-native speakers take the class IMO reflects poorly on the school and its ability to teach foreign languages.

To the OP, I think consensus has been achieved. Is it physically possible to take 10 AP’s in 1 year? Probably. However, it is probably not possible to do so without sacrificing everything else in your life.

As for the courses themselves, none of them are especially difficult and/or overly time-consuming with the exception on Calc BC and Bio. Calc is not bad if you have a really strong foundation in math and/or took Calc AB last year. APWH and AP USH by themselves are not too bad, but together can be a real time suck.

My suggestion would be to limit yourself to about 5.