Aren’t APs designed to prepare you for college AFTER you finish the regular high school curriculum? If so, then how do people take APs in grade 9, unless they finished all their high school material beforehand? And if you do take APs in grade 9, or 10, what do you do after? Say you take AP World History in grade 10. What do you do in grade 11? Another AP? My school only offers APs after you finish the regular curriculum, so that’s what my impression always was. Then I hear of some people finished double digit APs before their junior year or something.
<p>It is a particular school thing. There are many that allow students to take at least some AP courses without first having completed another high school course in the same subject matter. You thus can have students that take a large number of AP’s in high school, get all A’s in them, take honors or even community college courses when they run out of AP’s, who then score very high on the SAT, which is all geared to be admitted to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton because their parents can’t have the shame of the child going to any lesser school, and then being rejected.</p>
<p>In my high school you took AP European history in 10th. This is kind of what you were saying. After that, you took, AP US history, and the AP US government or comparative gov.</p>
<p>Similarly, If you took AP Bio as a junior, then you would take AP Chem or physics as a senior.</p>
<p>If your school offers a lot of APs, you have more options.</p>
<p>At my school the general AP “track” is:</p>
<p>Social Sciences
9: Pre-AP World History
10: AP World History
11: AP US History
12: AP US Gov/AP Econ (each is a semester long)
And some take AP Psych usually in 11th or 12th grade. The school also just opened up AP Euro, which tons of seniors signed up for, but they changed teachers right before the end of the school year (from an awesome teacher to a very, very, very bad one) so all but like 15 people dropped it. If they get the right teacher, I would say that 12th would most likely be AP Gov/Econ/ and about 1/2 going Euro</p>
<p>Some do
9: Pre-AP World
10: APUSH
11: AP Gov/Econ</p>
<p>Mathematics:
9: Geometry Hon
10: Algebra II Hon
11: Precalc Hon
12: AP Stat or AP Calc, or both</p>
<p>Science:
9: Bio Hon
10: Chem Hon
11: Physics Hon
12: AP Bio</p>
<p>English
9: English Accelerated Hon
10: Pre-AP English
11: AP English Lang
12: AP English Lit</p>
<p>So, as you can see, some APs at my school have precursors, while others do not.</p>
<p>I’m in an accelerated program at my school.
This allows me to bypass introductory courses and gives me AP courses as a first year student. For example, I had:
9-AP Bio
10- AP Statistics; AP Chemistry
11- AP CompSciAB; AP CalcBC; AP Physics C Mech
12- AP Physics C E&M; AP US History (to fill history graduation requirements)</p>
<p>It’s worked pretty well as I have received 5’s on all of them except CompSci eep…</p>
<p>When I graduated there where no 9th grade AP courses, but there was talk of changing Honors Geography to AP Geography, but I think most of the teachers were against that saying Freshman are not ready for AP classes, but I don’t know what they decided. I thought they should have, since they already have an honors class, why not just change it to an AP class, since there is an AP test.</p>
<p>I go to a small private school which does not allow for AP’s in 9th. However, those who have taken Honors Bio or Honors Chem may elect to take the AP’s in those respective classes in 10th. We do not have AP World History.</p>
<p>My specific track was:
9th- Honors Classes where available
10th- AP Chem (4) and honors courses where available
11th- AP Calc BC (5), AP US History (5), AP Physics C Mechanics (test taken as a senior) and most honors courses (not English)
12th- AP Physics C E&M, AP Human Geography, AP Music Theory and some honors classes</p>
<p>This is a somewhat advanced track due to the AP Chem and Music Theory classes. We do not take a horribly large amount of AP’s at my school and it is designed that way.</p>
<p>Just the way my school works…</p>
<p>we take world history AP freshman year</p>
<p>The AP track at my high school works like this:</p>
<p>Grade 9:
no possible APs in grade 9</p>
<p>Grade 10:
all sophomores have taken World History freshman year, so they have the option of taking a social studies AP, either
AP World History
AP European History
or AP Micro/Macro Economics</p>
<p>Grade 11:
possible APs-
AP US History
AP English
AP Micro/Macro
AP World History
AP European History</p>
<p>Grade 12:
AP Spanish (or French, etc)
AP Calculus AB or BC
AP English
AP US Government
AP Micro/Macro
AP US History
AP European History
AP Biology
AP Physics
AP Chemistry
AP Art History</p>
<p>if you want to take AP Physics, Bio, or Chem, you must have had Honors or regular physics, bio, or chem before. if you want to take AP gov, you must have had 1 government class before. All of the APs at my school have requirements just to get into the class - you must take a placement exam and have a certain gpa. </p>
<p>of course there are always exceptions. Like someone could take AP Spanish during their sophomore/junior year if they had a lot of spanish in grade school and tested out of Spanish 1 and/or 2. For math, some required courses are given during the summer (like Honros Pre-Calc) so you could take that the summer after sophomore year adn then take AP Calc junior year and then be in multivariable calc senior year.</p>
<p>My school has 13 APs but almost noone gets past three because so many of them have been turned into 2 year courses here. The earliest you could do one is if it was a language and you knew that language, in which case you could do it in grade 9 or 10. Otherwise for us we can begin them in 11th. I am lucky I tested out of a bunch of required courses here and got 8 instead of 3. (A school record yeah!!!) I am always amazed that some people get like 13 in the US though, they must be crazy. :)</p>
<p>My district offers nearly all of the AP classes, I believe. I have to go to the other high school to take AP Physics, though. Our AP English classes are a joke, so most of the students in the top 5% take the equivalent course which is not weighted. However, it is considered to be more difficult; moreover, to be considered for this track, you must go through an interview and essay writing process.</p>
<p>Our freshmen cannot take AP classes.</p>
<p>Sophomores may take AP US History, AP World History, and AP Environmental Science.</p>
<p>Juniors can take any class except for AP World History, AP Calculus, AP Economics, AP Government, AP English Literature, and AP Studio Art.</p>
<p>Seniors can take any class except for AP World History, AP US History, and AP English Language/Comp.</p>
<p>I don’t see why freshmen couldn’t take AP classes, especially history or environmental science. Those classes are not terribly difficult.</p>
<p>I had the most difficult schedule out of my senior class:
10th-- AP Environmental Science, AP World History
11th-- AP US History, AP German IV, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and the equivalent of AP English Lang/Comp
12th-- AP Calculus, AP Physics, AP German V, AP Economics/Gov-Law (will take the AP Gov exam), and the equivalent of AP English Literature</p>
<p>a 12 year old freshman kid at my highschool is in AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Lit, and AP US History !!! and straight 'A’s too! he is going to graduate HS at age 13 (next year). i know this cause he is in my AP Physics class.</p>