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My son will be coming to 11th grade next year and now we are looking at course selection. It seems that he has lot of AP courses as shown below. He is also supposed to take AP US history also but not sure if he can handle this much load.
Chemistry AP
Biology AP
Statistics AP
Physics AP
English AP
Spanish IV AP
Computer Science AP
We wanted to know if it is OK to take the AP US History in summer to get some relief in 11th grade?
My son will be coming to 11th grade next year and now we are looking at course selection. It seems that he has lot of AP courses as shown below. He is also supposed to take AP US history also but not sure if he can handle this much load.
Chemistry AP
Biology AP
Statistics AP
Physics AP
English AP
Spanish IV AP
Computer Science AP
We wanted to know if it is OK to take the AP US History in summer to get some relief in 11th grade?
That depends on whether he can handle the course and all the summer work he'll have from the other AP courses. I'm surprised they'd even offer AP anything in the summer. The courses are usually work horses as 7 month courses (leading up to the exam) and they include a significant amount of summer work before class starts. Cramming that all into 12 weeks along with summer work for the 7 other course you have listed here will be very difficult.
Wow, that looks like a crazy intense schedule. Why is he doubling up in both Math and Science?? I see zero breathing room. No English and no history? I agree with Ivorytickler about summer AP.
Depending on what he plans on going to college for, I would scratch some of those AP classes altogether. For example, unless he plans on doing a comp sci degree, the ap comp sci class wont help (In my school it wouldn't help anyhow, you'd still be required the take the intro class). If he's good with English and Spanish, he may be able to CLEP out of the college classes without taking the AP courses in highschool. Also, most colleges don't have any kind of foreign language requirement, so the AP spanish might just go to waste anyhow.
Depending on what he plans on going to college for, I would scratch some of those AP classes altogether. For example, unless he plans on doing a comp sci degree, the ap comp sci class wont help (In my school it wouldn't help anyhow, you'd still be required the take the intro class). If he's good with English and Spanish, he may be able to CLEP out of the college classes without taking the AP courses in highschool. Also, most colleges don't have any kind of foreign language requirement, so the AP spanish might just go to waste anyhow.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure that many of the "elite" schools even accept CLEP scores as replacement for courses/credit. Many state schools do, but if the OP's son is looking at going on to an Ivy Plus type of a school (which seems quite possible given the junior year course load listed above), CLEP may not really be an option.
My son will be coming to 11th grade next year and now we are looking at course selection. It seems that he has lot of AP courses as shown below. He is also supposed to take AP US history also but not sure if he can handle this much load.
Chemistry AP
Biology AP
Statistics AP
Physics AP
English AP
Spanish IV AP
Computer Science AP
We wanted to know if it is OK to take the AP US History in summer to get some relief in 11th grade?
OMG! This is an absolute KILLER courseload. Are you for real, or are you making this up to get a point across? Unless the kid is a genius workaholic who is incredibly efficient, no way should he take this. What does his school guidance counselor say?
IS that list the course selection you mention, or is that his actual schedule?
No school around me does AP courses in the summer. That would be nuts....
In most school systems AP Spanish is Spanish 5 and is either Language or Literature.
He's too loaded down.
As mentioned, many colleges will not allot AP credit for subjects in the student's major. And it's just not the schedule, anyone can have a "schedule", it's the score on the AP exam that matters. Many schools are also suspending granting credit or exemptions for AP because of the proliferation of kids taking the courses now. That, or the minimum score for credit or exemption has been raised from a 3 to a 4 or, in some cases, a 5.
AP students burn out. There, I've said it. Especially when you couple academic pressure with parental pressure.
If your state is like most he does need to fit a History in there. Whatever your state requires.
Signed: Thirty year teacher, AP teacher, AP Coordinator.
You do realize that the only time the students actually take the AP exams is early in May, right? So even if a high school offered the AP classes during the summer (which I do not believe any do), the exam for the class would not be until the following May.
It depends on your student and school. How is he currently handling his classes? Are they AP?
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