<p>1 - AP Economics
2 - Study (AP Bio lab Thur. and Fri.)
3 - AP Bio
4 - AP English 3
5 - Spanish 4 Honors
6 - AP Calc BC 1
7 - Physics Honors
8 - Gym
9 - AP US 2</p>
<p>My question is, is that too many AP’s? It is 5, plus 2 hard honors classes (physics and spanish). I am considering dropping down from AP English to English 3 Honors, or dropping AP Eco altogether.</p>
<p>What kind of reputations do the teachers of those AP classes have? At my school there are AP classes that are really quite easy because the teacher isn’t unreasonably demanding. </p>
<p>And do you plan on taking the tests for all of those APs? If I were you, I’d go to College Board and see what your testing schedule next May would look like if you were taking all those exams (or however many you want to take). I personally wouldn’t want to take two APs in one day, for instance, especially since tests can run overtime and make you late for the next testing period. Here’s the link: <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; </p>
<p>And do you really WANT to take all those classes? Would you be taking them because the subject really interests you, or because you want to look good to colleges? Junior year is the most important one as far as your transcript and college applications, but then, you don’t want to go crazy with stress over keeping your grades up in too-hard classes that don’t really interest you in the first place.</p>
<p>Have you taken any AP’s before?</p>
<p>I would drop economics. I think the other classes will take up a lot of your time. And what do you plan on taking next year?</p>
<p>I’m taking AP US 1 this year, getting an A-, but it’s a really easy class…</p>
<p>The honors classes I take this year, however, have a reputation of being as hard or harder than the AP classes… AP Bio and AP english are supposed to be very hard.</p>
<p>And I’m a sophomore now, this schedule is for next year.</p>
<p>it all depends on how hard the actual classes are. at my school, almost all the AP classes are very hard so they don’t usually let people take more than two. but if the AP classes don’t differ much from the regular classes, then go for it. it’ll look very good on a college app.</p>
<p>What’s AP US 2?</p>
<p>maybe they have a two year apush course.</p>
<p>I’d find that incredibly odd… and probably problematic when AP tests come around…</p>
<p>^Yea, really. APUSH can be easily covered in a year. And when the AP exam comes around, I doubt you’re going to remember much from 2 years ago.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t have to be run in such a linear fashion. I never took APUSH, so I can’t really elaborate on how to teach it in two years, but you could incorporate review, and connect the topics you’re teaching now to topics you taught the previous year or earlier in the year… and I’ve always thought history classes would profit immeasurably by the inclusion of historical fiction in the curriculum. That would fill out two years. I don’t know if that’s hard-hitting enough for an AP class, though. :rolleyes: :p</p>
<p>Only you know what you’re capable of and what the environment of your classrooms are like. We can only speculate. If you really want to hear advice, I’d say go to upperclassmen. All that I can tell you is to think long and hard about your record from previous years and compare it with what you’ll be taking on this year coupled with ECs and the like. If you were stressed before with less work, then maybe this is to much, but on the other hand, it might be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>The AP US 2 is probably like AP English 3. It doesn’t mean that AP English is split up over 3 years. His first year for history was probably honors US or something.</p>
<p>Actually, at my school APUS is a 2 year course. And both years are AP.
You have to get special permission from the College Board to do it. We get to because we have crazy block scheduling.</p>
<p>Um…good luck on the AP Test?</p>