What's the typical HS practice for taking APs?

[Anonymous]

My student at Langley took 1-3-6-7. He took PE during the summer and extra classes from the online campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My TJHSST Class of 2020 kid had the following progression:

9th
None

10th
World History (TJ doesn't offer the class, but kid took the exam and got a 5)

11th
AP Calc AB
AP Spanish
AP Computer Science
AP US History

12th

AP English Language
AP Gov't
Oceanography Rsch Lab (post-AP)
Artificial Intelligence (Post-AP)
AP Calculus BC
Mobile and Web App Dev (post-AP)

So interesting, I figured all TJ kids took AP Physics C, AP Bio and AP Chem. Do they take those classes before TJ maybe? And also, no 4th year of language?

He would have taken AP Spanish Lit as a 12th grader, but it wasn't offered due to lack of interest. He considered taking AP Physics as a senior, but chose to take an additional post-AP CS class instead (can't remember whether it was the AI class or the web/mobile app development class). Sadly, to me as a former Chemistry major - he wasn't especially interested in more AP Chemistry (though he did end up taking an introductory chemical class in college).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My TJHSST Class of 2020 kid had the following progression:

9th
None

10th
World History (TJ doesn't offer the class, but kid took the exam and got a 5)

11th
AP Calc AB
AP Spanish
AP Computer Science
AP US History

12th

AP English Language
AP Gov't
Oceanography Rsch Lab (post-AP)
Artificial Intelligence (Post-AP)
AP Calculus BC
Mobile and Web App Dev (post-AP)

So interesting, I figured all TJ kids took AP Physics C, AP Bio and AP Chem. Do they take those classes before TJ maybe? And also, no 4th year of language?

He would have taken AP Spanish Lit as a 12th grader, but it wasn't offered due to lack of interest. He considered taking AP Physics as a senior, but chose to take an additional post-AP CS class instead (can't remember whether it was the AI class or the web/mobile app development class). Sadly, to me as a former Chemistry major - he wasn't especially interested in more AP Chemistry (though he did end up taking an introductory chemical class in college).

Thanks for the response. Always interesting to hear how other schools and kids structure studies. I am sorry they didn't have AP Spanish Lit - it is an interesting kid who wants to take that and advanced computer science classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My TJHSST Class of 2020 kid had the following progression:

9th
None

10th
World History (TJ doesn't offer the class, but kid took the exam and got a 5)

11th
AP Calc AB
AP Spanish
AP Computer Science
AP US History

12th

AP English Language
AP Gov't
Oceanography Rsch Lab (post-AP)
Artificial Intelligence (Post-AP)
AP Calculus BC
Mobile and Web App Dev (post-AP)

So interesting, I figured all TJ kids took AP Physics C, AP Bio and AP Chem. Do they take those classes before TJ maybe? And also, no 4th year of language?

He would have taken AP Spanish Lit as a 12th grader, but it wasn't offered due to lack of interest. He considered taking AP Physics as a senior, but chose to take an additional post-AP CS class instead (can't remember whether it was the AI class or the web/mobile app development class). Sadly, to me as a former Chemistry major - he wasn't especially interested in more AP Chemistry (though he did end up taking an introductory chemical class in college).

Thanks for the response. Always interesting to hear how other schools and kids structure studies. I am sorry they didn't have AP Spanish Lit - it is an interesting kid who wants to take that and advanced computer science classes.

He had planned to double major in CS and Spanish in college. After his freshman year, he backed off of Spanish and added math as a second major. Definitely a more conventional combination!

[Anonymous]

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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?

It isn’t always the number of APs, but the rigor of the APs. BC Calc, Physics C, Chemistry, Biology, One of the AP English is far different from AP Stats, AP Econ, AP Psych, AP Environmental Science and AP World History.

AP world and AP lit are two of the hardest classes at our mcps high school. vs everyone gets an A in ap calculus.

How do kids do on the exams?

I assume you mean bc calc and 2/3 - 3/4 get a 5, next most is 4 and very few get lower

I don’t know about the other two classes but ap lit’s scores would be thrown off by the fact that only 12th graders can take it at our HS and I suspect a lot of 12th graders don’t take it or blow it off since they are into college and likely already have an english credit thanks to ap lang in 11th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My student at Langley took 1-3-6-7. He took PE during the summer and extra classes from the online campus.

That is way the outlier and I have insider info on Langley. Folks, even if true this is not norm at Langley where average accelerated path is total of 8-10 APs and the mode is probably 4-5 total APs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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?

It isn’t always the number of APs, but the rigor of the APs. BC Calc, Physics C, Chemistry, Biology, One of the AP English is far different from AP Stats, AP Econ, AP Psych, AP Environmental Science and AP World History.

Why bash APWH? That one will get you a few college credits at many colleges.

[Anonymous]

FCPS
9th: CS Prin (only AP available);
10th: World, CS;
11th: APUSH, Calc BC, Physics C-M (+post AP CS);
12th: Gov, Stats, Physics C-E&M (+MV/Linear Alg and Entrep DE)

Not 15...He's a failure

[Anonymous]

FCPS
9th- AP CS Prin
10th- AP World, AP CS A
11th- APUSH, AP Cal BC, AP stat, AP Physics 1, AP Lang, CS AB (post AP)
Projected 12th- AP Govt, AP literature, AP Spanish, AP Physics CM, MV Cal/Linear Algebra
So only 12 AP (excluding post AP or DE) ; I’m discouraging DC from taking more in 12th grade; thinking of taking Econ through NVCC to limit end of the year AP tests and burnout

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My student at Langley took 1-3-6-7. He took PE during the summer and extra classes from the online campus.

That is way the outlier and I have insider info on Langley. Folks, even if true this is not norm at Langley where average accelerated path is total of 8-10 APs and the mode is probably 4-5 total APs.

The student aiming for T20 schools at Langley take 13-15 APs. 8 APs is laughable at Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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?

It isn’t always the number of APs, but the rigor of the APs. BC Calc, Physics C, Chemistry, Biology, One of the AP English is far different from AP Stats, AP Econ, AP Psych, AP Environmental Science and AP World History.

Why bash APWH? That one will get you a few college credits at many colleges.

APWH is a tough AP.

[Anonymous]

It would be super interesting to see a study on whether more APs results in admissions to higher ranked schools after a certain threshold (for example, is 12 really better than 8 for admissions purposes).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be super interesting to see a study on whether more APs results in admissions to higher ranked schools after a certain threshold (for example, is 12 really better than 8 for admissions purposes).

IDK but this thread is bonkers. My DC took 9, and I’ve posted here that DC failed several tests. But, then again DC is only at a top-25 school, not top-20.

DC 2 will probably have 7, which is fine and probably normal or even higher than normal at the same school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be super interesting to see a study on whether more APs results in admissions to higher ranked schools after a certain threshold (for example, is 12 really better than 8 for admissions purposes).

IDK but this thread is bonkers. My DC took 9, and I’ve posted here that DC failed several tests. But, then again DC is only at a top-25 school, not top-20.

DC 2 will probably have 7, which is fine and probably normal or even higher than normal at the same school.

I suspect some of these my kid took 15+ APs posts are fake just to stir things up and get people worried. But if not fake, they are truly outliers.

[Anonymous]

Arlington

9th grade -1 (AP World History)
10th Grade - 2
11th Grade - 5
12 Grade - 5 (one science = two class periods)

13 classes will equal 15 AP exams (Econ is 2, Physics is 2)

Not common but also not unusual.