How Many APs Should I Take? 

I appreciate your take on this. AP Madness is a real thing. I’d love you to update this. Our school offers 20+ AP courses, with 6 available class periods per week (2 saved for lunch, PE, health, etc as required by school) and all are full year classes. Daughter has friends who have taken 4-6 AP classes per year. It’s insane. It doesn’t allow for growth in other areas. I understand academic rigor, but colleges will only accept so many APs for credit and that’s only if you get a 4-5 on the test. Many, if not most, colleges won’t give you credit for more than one semester’s worth of classes because it reduces their income. So all AP classes get you is access to even harder classes in college. Taking more than 6 is a waste of time and money and a source of undue stress. Colleges have reported that they’re seeing kids with an inability to socialize and interact in unstructured environments. Between the pandemic and this academic pressure kids aren’t just hanging out, relaxing, letting off steam. Every moment is a structured activity, often still coordinated by adults, that is intended to bolster their college application. College is a good goal, but it’s not the end goal. Growing up, having a fulfilling life that includes hobbies, friends, loving interpersonal relationships as well as a decent job should be the goal.

For top tiers I noticed most applicants take around 8-10 AP courses ...and take at least 5 exams... Matter of fact I spoke to a Stanford PhD alumni who stated Stanford is more selective than Harvard ... Stanford Admissions Committee expects applicants to be rigoresly challenge themselves by taking as many APs as long as they're going to take HS courses , otherwise take the relevant dual or College courses relevant to major

5:26 helpful advice. here I was thinking the more the better.

2 sophomore year, 3 junior year, 4 senior year -> 9 total

My school is crazy competitive about it. I am from Michigan..Okemos high school. Freshman takes 2 APs and Junior takes 5 APs ..so by the time they apply to college, they have 12 APs

I'm in my sophomore year of high school and I have three AP Classes: AP Calc BC, AP Stats, and AP World(and so far they're really easy). I'm taking Chem H this year tho and I have the choice to do AP Chem or AP Physics 1 for my science class next year. The thing is, I want to skip AP Physics 1 and go straight into AP Physics C and be done with the whole thing. The problem is that means I have to self-study, and I don't know if I should because that would take away a lot of my time from the other classes I'm taking, and I heard of this John Hopkins 12-week program that'll help you learn the material. But I don't have any background in Physics and the program costs $1600, which is nothing to sneeze at. So I'm just worried if it's even worth spending that much time and money, and risking the grades of my other courses when I might not even pass the final exam. Is AP Physics really that hard to grasp?

Took AP World as a freshman, sophomore i took AP Euro and AP Seminar, Junior is AP Calc AB, APUSH, AP Research, AP Computer Science A, AP English Lang, then as a senior: AP Statistics, AP Lit, AP BIO, and AP US GAP

I took 2 AP classes my freshman year: APES and APHG I took 1 in my sophomore year which was AP GOV I am planning to take 4 in my junior year which would be AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Lang, and APUSH. I don’t know yet about my senior year but prolly 4 APs as well

I took 1 AP freshman year, but I plan on taking five for my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I don’t do it for the AP title or the status, it’s just that I find normal and honors courses really boring and I am a huge nerd. Exemplifying my academia is something I love and I get that from AP classes. My question is, however, even with this course load and it not adding much, if I take 16 APs, but I’m still a part of all the clubs I have been a part of and even add more, does that show commitment as a student?

What I’m doing is this: 1 -> 3 -> 4 -> 4 Freshmen were forced to only take APHG.

I'm Currently taking AP Spanish Literature, do you recommend to take AP Spanish Language next year or would it be unnecessary?

I want to take AP precalc, AP Art History, AP Physics 1, AP Lang, and auto-teach myself AP French this junior year.

What should i take junior year. I’m in sophomore year taking all regular but my freshman year I took all honors and ap world. I wanna get back to that junior year.

My List (Some of the later ones are guesses) Freshman: AP Human Geography, AP Environmental Science, AP Precalculus (Exam only for precalc) Sophomore: AP Chem, AP European History, AP Calc BC Junior: AP Physics C, APUSH, AP Statistics Senior: AP Biology, AP Gov, AP Spanish, AP Psych There's a few more I might throw in there, and I might take a few more exam only things

how does a 5 on an ap exam which is self-studied compare to a 5 on an ap exam which the class is taken?

I’m taking ap world in 8th grade and my test is Wednesday Iol

5:30 I’m taking 6 APs this year tho, is that bad??? Should I not do that?? I got 4 APs by the school (ap environmental science, ap us history, ap microeconomics, and ap English language), but since I really live Japanese I decided to self study ap Japanese and since I’m kinda interested in physics I wanted to take ap physics 1 to make sure it’s something I’d like to do in the future. But now I don’t know, is that bad??

0>1 (ap gov)>4 (ap lang apush ap psych ap studio art 2d) and idk for my senior year yet bc I’m a sophomore

I plan to take Ap us history, Ap Chem,Ap Lang and Ap calc ab next year for my junior year. Do you think this is manageable to get all A’s in?

I took Algebra 1 in Freshman.I plan to take Geometry and Honors Algebra 2 and Trig in sophomore year.My counselor is advising against taking two math classes in the same year.I have taken tuitions for Geometry over the last 6 months and I am almost done with Geometry.What is your advice? I am doing this so I could takeAP calculus AB by senior year.

Hey, I am a current freshman in SoCal and I am planning on taking 2-3 APs next year please lmk if I should, my schedule would be… AP Biology (Chem over this summer) AP European History (main Sph yr AP) AP Comp Sci Princ (For fun Ig) Hn Precalc Hn English II Hn Spanish II Hn Academic Decathlon Religion II What do you think???

2->4->7-->7

2 to 3 per year seems like a good idea

1 -> 1 -> 3 -> 3 (probably)

Damn i am taking 4 ap its brutal

I took apush and ap bio in tenth which was dumb

1 freshman 1 sophomore 4 junior

I took 3 AP’s Freshman year and currently taking 5 AP’s Sophomore year. I think I went out of order