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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's a normal amount of AP courses for a student to take?

Looking at my IB student's projected track, they will take 4-5 college-level courses over the course of their four years in high school. (AP government sophomore year, then 3-4 higher-level classes). I don't intend any attack here; I'm just curious if AP students generally take more or if this is similar.

I grew up with AP in FCPS, but I don't have any problems with IB. The big thing about it is that parents use it as a means to transfer from one school to another.[/quote]

My average kid (1300 SAT range, A/B student) who is weaker in writing will graduate with 8 AP classes:

AP World (5)
AP US History
AP Government 
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP Precalc (maybe an equivalent class to the IB math classes?)
AP AB Calculus 
AP Lit

This is a fairly typical AP load at out school for a kid eith this kid's academic profile, with possibly a dual enrollment class or two replacing AP classes.

My stronger kid (above 1500 SAT and above 4.0 GPA) graduated with mostly 5s with some 4s in 10 AP classes:

AP World
AP US History
AP Government 
AP Chemistry
AP Physics
AP AB Calculus
AP Literature
AP Language
AP Music Theory
AP Macro and Micro Econ

This would be very typical at our school for the higher performing students, with the engineering bound kids taking BC or multivariable calculus.[/quote]

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