How many AP classes does a "typical, academically advanced" student take in MCPS?
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Anonymous
| The title says it all. Parent of an eighth grader who is trying to get an idea in advance of registering for high school classes. |
Anonymous
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It depends on which HS and which subjects your child prefers.
Some HSs let/encourage freshmen to take an AP course. Other HSs basically forbid it. Over the past 6 or 8 years different schools have had widely varying amounts of math acceleration this has changed the number of AP classes from year to year. My guess is that if you don't take 6, one sophomore, two junior and three senior year you have totally missed the boat. There are a good number of students that take two as sophomores and five as juniors but then may not take more than two as seniors because class selection starts to become limited unless the student feels equally strong in math, science, English, social studies and maybe a foreign language. Gov, World History Lang Calc Stats Psyc Econ US History Chem Bio Physics Lit Art History Music Comp Sci Spanish French German Chinese |
Anonymous
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how advanced OP? my wild guess...
magnet-level advanced - min 10, more like 12 and up w-school advanced - probably around 9-10 regular school top tier kid - probably 6-8 |
Anonymous
| My B+ student...took 1 sophomore year is taking 2 junior year and will probably take 2 or 3 more senior year. They are like the equivalent of honors classes from a generation ago. |
Anonymous
My W school kid took 10. DC was with the normal advanced group, plenty of kids taking about the same number, and certainly some taking more. Took 1, 1, 3, 5 by year. Should have taken only 4 sr year, not that a particular class was hard, but 5 was 1 too many. DC got 4s and 5s on all the tests and did get college credit for all but one class, although is choosing not to graduate early. |
Anonymous
| Need to call our PP's distinction between "W school kid" and "regular school kid". That is despicable. |
Anonymous
| Honestly, the fact that MCPS is allowing freshman to take college courses is ridiculous. No wonder so many college are doing away with them. |
Anonymous
Really? I didn't read it that way at all. More to do with the families pushing more on APs in Ws so there is a difference. You can look at the stats on number of APs taken, and pass rates. They are published for every school. They do vary from school to school across the county. |
Anonymous
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We have a "magnet" kid that opted to stay in our home high school. He is taking 2 APs as a freshman. He'll probably take APs in all 4 major subjects next year which will give him the option of choosing IB if he wants to and still graduating with a respectable # of APs. His two AP classes are his favorite, he likes the mixed ages - and he has a great teacher for both.
A lot of private school kids we know take APs in the summer, so that is an option to consider as well - I'm assuming the public schools would accept it. |
Anonymous
| My kids (several years ago) took 1 freshman year (it was fine, didn't count for anything, don't know why everyone is all up in arms about it - Human Geography btw), 2 sophomore year, 4 junior year, and 6 senior year. |
Anonymous
| You are all insane people. Literally insane. SLOW down. Enjoy life. Why push these kids? |
Anonymous
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Mine took
1 - 9th 3 - 10th 6- 11th 5 - 12 th |
Anonymous
Why would you take an AP in the summer? Never heard of that. I have heard of kids taking college classes in the summer, but obviously those aren't APs. |
Anonymous
| Kids just study the prep books without taking the classes too. You don't have to take the class. Colleges are realizing it is kind of a scam. |
Anonymous
What do you mean? |