What's the typical HS practice for taking APs?

[Anonymous]

I've been seeing this a lot... Rigor rating= what is typical AP practice in your HS vs what your kid is taking

So how do we know what's typical?

We are in FCPS and from what I hear:

Freshmen are not allowed to take AP
Sophomores limited to one AP

then I don't know what Juniors and Seniors do

What's it like in your high school?

[Anonymous]

My kid is doing 0-1-3-4. I think that’s pretty typical for a strong (UMD, W&M, SLACs beyond T15) but not T20-bound student. For someone applying T20, at our school, which has no limits, I’d anticipate something like 1-2-4-5 or 2-2-4-4 (with post AP counting as AP).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is doing 0-1-3-4. I think that’s pretty typical for a strong (UMD, W&M, SLACs beyond T15) but not T20-bound student. For someone applying T20, at our school, which has no limits, I’d anticipate something like 1-2-4-5 or 2-2-4-4 (with post AP counting as AP).

2-3-6-4 here

[Anonymous]

At our MCPS high school (not magnet), a typical rigorous progression is:

grade 9- 1
grade 10- 2
grade 11- 4-6
grade 12- 6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is doing 0-1-3-4. I think that’s pretty typical for a strong (UMD, W&M, SLACs beyond T15) but not T20-bound student. For someone applying T20, at our school, which has no limits, I’d anticipate something like 1-2-4-5 or 2-2-4-4 (with post AP counting as AP).

Counting both Econs as just 1 since we’re talking about year long classes.

[Anonymous]

My freshman is taking 2

[Anonymous]

I know no one who is taking 6 APs both junior and senior year. They’d just be taking APs for the sake of taking APs. Even with 30 APs offered, it’s not logical without just being a grinder.

[Anonymous]

My kid’s school does not offer them, so 0.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know no one who is taking 6 APs both junior and senior year. They’d just be taking APs for the sake of taking APs. Even with 30 APs offered, it’s not logical without just being a grinder.

Not true- my DC is a senior, and not even in the group trying for ivies, and they took these APs in 11th grade: english lang, world history, bc calc, chinese, bio, and psych; and in grade 12: micro/macro, stat, MV, english lit, human geo, physics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know no one who is taking 6 APs both junior and senior year. They’d just be taking APs for the sake of taking APs. Even with 30 APs offered, it’s not logical without just being a grinder.

you have any any asian friends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know no one who is taking 6 APs both junior and senior year. They’d just be taking APs for the sake of taking APs. Even with 30 APs offered, it’s not logical without just being a grinder.

Not true- my DC is a senior, and not even in the group trying for ivies, and they took these APs in 11th grade: english lang, world history, bc calc, chinese, bio, and psych; and in grade 12: micro/macro, stat, MV, english lit, human geo, physics.

Filling schedule with classes like Human Geo just to take another AP. It’s transparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know no one who is taking 6 APs both junior and senior year. They’d just be taking APs for the sake of taking APs. Even with 30 APs offered, it’s not logical without just being a grinder.

Not true- my DC is a senior, and not even in the group trying for ivies, and they took these APs in 11th grade: english lang, world history, bc calc, chinese, bio, and psych; and in grade 12: micro/macro, stat, MV, english lit, human geo, physics.

Filling schedule with classes like Human Geo just to take another AP. It’s transparent.

It’s interesting that you picked Human Geo as an example. My math/science kid absolutely adores Human Geo and says it is helping him think and understand more about how the world works. He thinks the class is worth it even if it wasn’t an AP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know no one who is taking 6 APs both junior and senior year. They’d just be taking APs for the sake of taking APs. Even with 30 APs offered, it’s not logical without just being a grinder.

Not true- my DC is a senior, and not even in the group trying for ivies, and they took these APs in 11th grade: english lang, world history, bc calc, chinese, bio, and psych; and in grade 12: micro/macro, stat, MV, english lit, human geo, physics.

Filling schedule with classes like Human Geo just to take another AP. It’s transparent.

If this were legit, they’d have taken AP Chem and molecular biology.

[Anonymous]

Would a double period AP class (AP Bio for example) count as one or two AP classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would a double period AP class (AP Bio for example) count as one or two AP classes?

Counts as 1