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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of school have flipped from the old standard bio-chem-phys order to phys-chem-bio.

At DC’s school, students must take all three (there are some levels available depending on math ability and honors placement, but all students must take non-AP of all three), phys-chem-bio. Students can double up and take a second science in 11th and one or two sciences in 12th, with a variety of options including AP Physics I or C, AP Chem, and AP Bio as well as APES, AP Psych, and non-AP electives like Food Chemistry, Forensics, or Marine Bio. [/quote] So your school's kids can never take more than two science APs?[/quote]
They can take three if they double up on science in both 11 and 12. They would take biology (standard or honors) and and AP (likely Chem, but could be Phys) in 11 and then two APs (Bio — since they can’t take that until 12 because they have to get a certain grade in 11th grade bio to be allowed to take the AP) and either Phys (1 or C) or Chem, whichever they didn’t take in 11th. Or they could substitute APES or AP Psych for one of the three core AP sciences.

I doubt kids often (if ever) take two core APs (bio/chem/phys) *and* AP Psych or APES in 12th (they’d have to get a waiver for the stated max of 3 APs in senior year, because anyone that STEMy is likely also in AP Calc, to start with). But I suppose it’s possible. [/quote]

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