<p>Probably, but there might be exceptions.^ Most schools only have health class for one quarter of the school year.</p>
<p>I feel like APES teachers just add too much stuff into the curriculum. I took the exam as a sophomore, without having taken the course or previously having taken biology. My preparation consisted of reading the Princeton Review book for around nine days. I got a 5 on the exam. </p>
<p>I think the general consensus is that in terms of exams, the easiest are human geo, APES, and psych.</p>
<p>@EmPaige21 idk i think someone said earlier that it was easy idk… i think most people can agree that the class is hard, but the material itself is pretty simple.</p>
<p>But does schedule rigor get affected if you take an “easy” AP? I mean…the exam may be easy but the class can be oddly hard.</p>
<p>I feel like admissions officer would be merciful enough to realize that different courses are taught by different types of teachers. Example: last year I took AP lang with a really difficult teacher and got the highest grade in the class (A-). I’m taking AP lit this year and my teacher is awful and doesn’t teach anything, yet she arbitrarily grades everything and every single student has exactly a B.</p>
<p>Actually that wasn’t a very relevant example; I just wanted to rant about it I guess.</p>
<p>I was never allowed to take AP lang when I transferred to my current school. I took AP Psych instead, and it was the most meaningful course to me because the teacher was very cleverly interesting. I explained the limitation to Penn though.
AP Lit this year is an easy class for me. The teacher’s hilarious and pretty chill about homework and tests.</p>
<p>^^ I feel you. Last year I had a really really easy AP Lang teacher… I would say about 60% of the 40 or so kids who took the class had an A the whole year. Yet, only about 4 or 5 kids got a 5 on the exam, myself included.</p>
<p>I do think teachers are a big part of it. Last year, I had a very hard Calc BC AP teacher, and he was asian, and he played star wars imperial march every time we were about to take a test. Average for the tests were ~ 55/100, but then all but 3 people got 5’s on the exam, and the other 3 got 4’s.</p>
<p>Yeah.^ My AP Lang teacher was… let’s just say… not the best teacher. She was a tough grader and most of her students ended up with B’s. At the same time, she talked the entire period about irrelevant topics and we all felt unprepared for the exam. Only a dozen or so students from my class, myself included, got a 5.</p>
<p>Please, let’s not talk about school. Please. Please.</p>
<p>@OOquanta, you took Calc BC as a junior?</p>
<p>Of course we all got 5’s on our AP exams.</p>
<p>Okay topic switch.</p>
<p>Pick a different subject then!</p>
<p>Just wondering, which college’s school colors do you guys like best?!? (Other than Penn’s Red and Blue of course.) ;)</p>
<p>Can I just take a second to complain about how HORRIBLE HP COMPUTERS ARE? OH MY GOD I’M GOING INSANE.</p>
<p>@sweetpuri
yeah, in elementary school, there was this program that allowed you to skip a grade in math if you were good at math, so I’ve been a year ahead in math since then because of that. I didn’t feel like taking advanced calculus (just multivariable) this year so I’m taking stat ap instead.</p>
<p>One college apps are over, I might get skyrim. :P</p>
<p>Guess who just beat Stanford? US!</p>
<p>Now we just have to stay strong and keep this up!</p>
<p>I’m thinking of getting an Asus laptop for college, since they make all their own components so it has better synergy.</p>
<p>BOOYA! Good job guys</p>
<p>I really want a Mac. I’ve always been averse to Apple until my friend showed me all the great things about his Macbook Pro, and now I’m hooked. I just gotta find a way to save up $1000 for the stupid thing…</p>