Current Events > Are there people that actually took "AP" classes in high school?

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Thats one thing I never got. Why? At our school like 10% would but they were like the super smart kids or nerds that had parents who wanted them to study all day.

But, if youre in high school, it means extra work. I took 1 honors class and it was too much, they assigned hw every day! And it wasnt like 5 minutes hw, you had to spend like 30 mins sometimes an hour! I switched back to regular classes.

High school is about socializing, showing off fashion and being around people. Why would kids make it hard on themselves in the best time of their lives? Dont they like sports or clubs? Besides colleges dont care, except for like super top ones lol
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I was able to get my degree a year early due to the AP classes in high school.
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AP calc let me skip a year of calc in college which was pretty nice.
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- College credits
- They are free whereas you have to pay for classes in college
- You also get a better weighted GPA in most schools
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Maybe some people have career ambitions or actually want to learn?

I took 6 APs in HS and got 5s on all the exams. It got me out of a bunch of basic classes and left room in my college schedule to dual major.
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I breezed through AP classes and got out of like an entire semesters worth of college classes
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Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour
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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Maybe some people have career ambitions or actually want to learn?

I took 6 APs in HS and got 5s on all the exams. It got me out of a bunch of basic classes and left room in my college schedule to dual major.

Oh shit!!!!!

Are you like a genius?
What made you choose that over honors? Isnt honors for smart people too and AP for super smarties
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I took three AP classes, never took the tests for any of them, I also didn't do any work in them either. I just took them because taking AP classes looks better than not taking them, basically. They were incredibly easy actually. I even got an A in AP calculus despite my test average being like a 70.

College credit, better looking transcript, work that's actually challenging
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Bananana posted...

I breezed through AP classes and got out of like an entire semesters worth of college classes

Damn!!!! Thats insane. You must be like the smartest kid in your whole school

Any reason why you personally chose AP over honor and standard
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It saves you a shit ton of money
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MC_BatCommander posted...

College credit, better looking transcript, work that's actually challenging

Honors is really hard tbh

Depends on your skill, standard can be hard

If you are bad at math, standard geometry can be brutal half my class failed. Or if bad at reading like me English is rough with standard
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I had like, 20 credits coming into college bc of all the APs I took, and I never had to take more than 13 hours a semester for it.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

You also get a better weighted GPA in most schools

This is a big reason why it was good.
Looking back, it seems quite unfair
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- I wouldn't have gone to top college without APs
- Kept me ahead in terms of registering for college classes
- Subjects are more interesting
- Saved quite a bit of money in the long run
- May not relate to some people, but I much preferred staying in classes with AP students rather than regular students

Hard disagree on saying high school is the best time of your life by the way. APs were one of the only ways to make high school more interesting and fulfilling. College is much better time for life experiences.

knuxnole posted...

daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Maybe some people have career ambitions or actually want to learn?

I took 6 APs in HS and got 5s on all the exams. It got me out of a bunch of basic classes and left room in my college schedule to dual major.

Oh shit!!!!!

Are you like a genius?
What made you choose that over honors? Isnt honors for smart people too and AP for super smarties

At my school the choices were normal or AP and I'd be bored as shit in normal classes. I also new from the beginning that I wanted to go to med school so I wanted to get to high level courses and have research time as soon as possible in undergrad.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

knuxnole posted...

But, if youre in high school, it means extra work.

lol, no. i took AP English, History and Government classes in all of high school except 9th grade, and having taken the normal classes in 9th grade, i'm able to compare them and i can say the AP classes assigned much less busywork than the normal classes. you were treated as an adult, and you were given assignments that actually mattered instead of things that were just something the teacher could slap a grade on. it might be a different story for AP math classes, i wouldn't know about that.

also AP classes give you college credits. i didn't have to take English 101 or 102 when i went to community college, and most of the stuff we covered in 103 Critical Thinking and Composition was covered in my 12th grade English class, even though that didn't give me credit for 103.

So you had less homework and studying time? Then I want those AP classes lol.

You had to be chosen for AP and my grades in standard were all Cs and Ds
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knuxnole posted...

Why would kids make it hard on themselves in the best time of their lives?

If hs was the best time of your life, you're living a very sad existence.

Edit: i really should have kept reading, woulda realized the fact that im in a troll topic.
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Like 90% of my graduating class took at least one AP course at some point.
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MarkMahWords posted...

- I wouldn't have gone to top college without APs
- Kept me ahead in terms of registering for college classes
- Subjects are more interesting
- Saved quite a bit of money in the long run
- May not relate to some people, but I much preferred staying in classes with AP students rather than regular students

Hard disagree on saying high school is the best time of your life by the way. APs were one of the only ways to make high school more interesting and fulfilling. College is much better time for life experiences.

I disagree. High school is A-mazing! You have fun times with your core group of friends and have lots of fun moments. You can joke around, hit on girls and have dance battles in the hallways

How are AP interesting and fulfilling iyo? If its too hard or too much work it doesnt make hs fun. Standard at least you can have fun
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COVxy posted...

knuxnole posted...

Why would kids make it hard on themselves in the best time of their lives?

If hs was the best time of your life, you're living a very sad existence.

College wasn't the best time of my life either. The 20's and early 30's will probably be the best time of mine tbh.

COVxy posted...

knuxnole posted...

Why would kids make it hard on themselves in the best time of their lives?

If hs was the best time of your life, you're living a very sad existence.

Nope its great!

High school was amazing! Fun times with friends, the sports and clubs, the lunchroom! OMg the lunchroom moments! After high school I work a regular job and have regular life but in high school you had 0 worries and basically a magical, amazing experience!

Its why so many shows, movies and songs agree!!
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literally everything I tool Junior and Senior year was AP/IB except for band.
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Lots of smart people ITT

Just curious, how would you guys feel if they took out AP and you had to sit with me in all standard. It sounds like you guys wouldnt be happy for some reason, and curious about how you would react
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Yes.

- Less disruptive kids in the class.
- Easier homework because we could actually ask questions about the assignments and have class room discussions about it. The smaller class size also helps with this. Even when the homework sucked, we were with a group of kids who knew the homework would suck and we'd take time in lab or study hall to talk about it. Or we'd convince the professor to do some impromptu office hours.
- More interesting assignments, since the class was more focused in developing deeper conceptual understanding and less general.
- Everyone more or less gave a shit, so the atmosphere was cooler.

I was courting some out of state schools and I wanted to create the impression of being a serious applicant who took academics and civic engagement seriously. And it worked.
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The only AP classes we had were US History, English Lit, and Bio. I took the first two because I didn't need a biology credit
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HW was harder in non AP classes? Why? I thought it would easier since if its too hard the regular kids couldnt do it
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I took basically every AP class option that was available. Started as a 2nd year student credit wise when I went to uni.

Honestly AP classes weren't even that hard.
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Tmaster148 posted...

I took basically every AP class option that was available. Started as a 2nd year student credit wise when I went to uni.

Honestly AP classes weren't even that hard.

They seem hard at my school. They make you read lots of books in English and have active discussion, in social studies you have to not just memorize names and rivers. In science you have to think. In math you have daily hw. In Spanish you have so much hw and cant take exam with a dictionary
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I almost took an AP Music Theory class, but not enough people signed up for it, so it was canceled.
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knuxnole posted...

HW was harder in non AP classes? Why? I thought it would easier since if its too hard the regular kids couldnt do it

Because you had more time to ask more questions and better understand the assignment.

In the non-AP classes, you'd spend half the time just controlling the classroom and getting through whatever the planned lesson was. Then five minutes at the end of the class to go over that class's homework.

Like it really did feel like the difference between babysitting, and class work. I didn't need a babysitter. And my teachers don't want to babysit me. It's so much easier when we can both agree we're over it.
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In my school, the AP classes were easier than honors, or moreso, had better teachers than honors. So I took the AP most of the time.

There was a time in 12th grade where I opted for English honors and I got the same dumbass teacher I had in 10th grade English. I pretty much ran to the guidance office and begged to be put into AP or regular. They put me in AP and that was one of the best teachers I ever had. She was so laid back and I ended up with a 5 and never had to bother with English/Writing in college outside the upperclassmen requirement.
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knuxnole posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

I took basically every AP class option that was available. Started as a 2nd year student credit wise when I went to uni.

Honestly AP classes weren't even that hard.

They seem hard at my school. They make you read lots of books in English and have active discussion, in social studies you have to not just memorize names and rivers. In science you have to think. In math you have daily hw. In Spanish you have so much hw and cant take exam with a dictionary

None of that is hard.
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my high school was in a rich neighborhood with a ton of immigrant kids, the culture was such that anything less than 5 AP classes each in your junior and senior years of high school meant you were a dumb kid, rather than that taking them meant you were smart >__>

super obnoxious, many of those kids got into great colleges but studied something dumb and now have nothing to show for all that work

lol this dude acting like AP classes mean you have 30 more hours of schoolwork every week or something
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Nice bait topic
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I took the following AP classes:

BC Calculus
Statistics
European History
US History
US Government
Physics I
Physics II
Chemistry
Composition
Computer Science Principles

They gave me a whopping 45 transfer credits. Absolutely worth it.
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AP and Honor classes weren't that bad. I even took some college credit courses while in high school so I was able to skip English when I actually enrolled in college. I'm honestly glad that most of the classes I took were on that level. From what I used to hear, regular classes were a complete joke at my school. Grades were given to athletes so they could play ball and the classes were often bad learning environments. At least, that's how it was at my high school. I remember one of the teachers did a presentation for an athlete so he could continue playing football. All he had to do was read the slides.
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AP classes let me skip a level of that subject in college.

So instead of doing college comp 1000 like everyone else, they put me right into English 2500 on freshman year.
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Tmaster148 posted...

knuxnole posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

I took basically every AP class option that was available. Started as a 2nd year student credit wise when I went to uni.

Honestly AP classes weren't even that hard.

They seem hard at my school. They make you read lots of books in English and have active discussion, in social studies you have to not just memorize names and rivers. In science you have to think. In math you have daily hw. In Spanish you have so much hw and cant take exam with a dictionary

None of that is hard.

Its not hard for you cause you are smart

For people who arent, its a lot of work

You dont time for homework or studying in high school, you have life, you have hangout with friends, sports and clubs.

It seems like there are lots of smart people

Also, do you guys not misbehave during class? Me and my friends are always joking around having fun. A lot of the nerds and people who parents want them to study are always in the smart classes
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Engineer_Gamer posted...

my high school was in a rich neighborhood with a ton of immigrant kids, the culture was such that anything less than 5 AP classes each in your junior and senior years of high school meant you were a dumb kid, rather than that taking them meant you were smart >__>

DuranOfForcena posted...

AP and normal classes really are for different types of people. some people find it difficult to do a fair amount of meaningful assignments that are actually engaging and get you to think critically about things, and some people find it difficult to drudge through endless, meaningless busywork that doesn't actually teach you anything except short-term memorization.

This was the thing in NYC. There was always two segments. The people taking APs and honors and the people barely passing remedial stuff. One was mostly white people and immigrant children and the other was everybody left in the hood (all colors of people including poorer immigrants and whites).

Funny thing is that everybody that put even a little effort in no matter the situation they were in are doing pretty good now. It's only the people who gave up that are still struggling.
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Is TC pretending to be in high school when his account is 13 years old?
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knuxnole posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

I took basically every AP class option that was available. Started as a 2nd year student credit wise when I went to uni.

Honestly AP classes weren't even that hard.

They seem hard at my school. They make you read lots of books in English and have active discussion, in social studies you have to not just memorize names and rivers. In science you have to think. In math you have daily hw. In Spanish you have so much hw and cant take exam with a dictionary

Sounds right to me. Were the normal classes not this way?
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DuranOfForcena posted...

AP and normal classes really are for different types of people. some people find it difficult to do a fair amount of meaningful assignments that are actually engaging and get you to think critically about things, and some people find it difficult to drudge through endless, meaningless busywork that doesn't actually teach you anything except short-term memorization.

Exactly, a lot of kids just want the bare minimum and the teacher to leave them alone and not be uptight bitches. This is high school not work.

Leave the smart college bound peeps for AP. More than half of the school is regular, if you make them do AP, guess what?

All of your AP classes will rowdy. Which isnt a bad thing. Im sure in your classes you have people talking half the time, having dance battles or rap battles, breaking up bullying a kid, burping contests during lecture and girls having fashion off
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I think I took 6 or 7 AP classes in high school. I guess AP Physics was the only one that was challenging.

knuxnole posted...

They make you read lots of books in English and have active discussion, in social studies you have to not just memorize names and rivers. In science you have to think. In math you have daily hw. In Spanish you have so much hw and cant take exam with a dictionary

I had daily homework in all of my math classes from like 3rd grade on.

As for reading books & discussing them in English-- A, that's fucking easy & B, that's a better way to learn in my experience than just writing papers.

As for Spanish, I took several foreign languages over the years & never was anyone allowed to use a dictionary.