AP Classes.

[The Divine Comedy]

I just spent about four hours finishing up the homework for my AP Chem class. My hand hurts. :( And I'm sure it's only going to get harder from here.

Ah well. Share some stories to make me feel better. What's been your experience with/in an AP class? Funny stories? Strange stories? Stories of AP testing rituals involving hair of goat and pencils made of a special wood only grown in Outer Mongolia and the President's backyard? Do tell. :)

[Spaatz965]

Took AP Pascal in highschool (class of '87). Got a 3 on the exam, wasn't happy with that, so took the course my first year in college and was *amazed* at how different it was. Goes to show what happens when a Chemistry PhD highschool science teacher is tagged to teach a class on programming logic and structure...

[Soli]

I'm in honors english, so I think that is an AP class. I don't know. :P

But it hasn't been much different then regular english so far. We did have a book report assigned the first day and that's kinda new, but nothing I can't handle. Right now we're doing grammer and copying notes off a slide show on the projector. He reads the stuff while we copy it down and then explains it. When he's done he asks if we're ready to move to the next slide. Usually I'm not ready and am too shy to say I'm not. I don't want the whole class to wait! So my notes have empty parts in them where I didn't copy stuff down. XD Oh well. Grammar is evil anyways. x.x

And I was origianly put it regular english. I remember saying honors english on my sheet. >.< So I had to have a schedual change. Grr.

So this class hasn't been too hard. But history we write a lot for homework. That's the class that makes my hand fall off! We have section reviews, finding vocab in the chapter and copying down the definition. I tend to write more then I need to because of the teacher I had for history last year who was really tough. This is much easier. :P

High school hasn't been that hard so far. I'm just suprised at the amout of work we can get in such a short time. :boggled: Last year we sort of eased into classes. This year we were thrown in, homework the first day and such. Ahh!

It is fun though. But those big people... :eyepop: Big.

[Soli]

People on OP9 are smart. :) Lots of AP classes!

[The Divine Comedy]

Well, I've only taken AP History last year and AP Chem this year. I feel slightly deficient compared to some other people I've seen kicking around here, though. >_>

[NERD]

Soli, Honors English is not AP. It is not an AP class unless specified on the course title.

I took AP Art and AP US Government in my senior year. I did better than I expected and got a 4 for Art- 1 of the 2 people from the entire class to get a higher score for the portfolio. And I'm not that good of an artist.

I did not do well with AP Government and got 2 or 3- can't remember. I did go to Washington DC with the class for a national tournament, paid trip and everything.

If you are taking AP classes, make it your goal to score at least 3 for the final exam- you'll be happy when you don't have to take those courses again in college.

[Soli]

Soli, Honors English is not AP. It is not an AP class unless specified on the course title.

Oh, okay. I feel silly then. :meh:

High school is too confusing! :gloomy:

[The Divine Comedy]

There's an AP Art? WHY does my school not have this? :mad:

[NERD]

There's an AP Art? WHY does my school not have this? :mad:

Chances are there is no art teacher in your school interested in teaching that, or someone in administration who did not believe in art. Seriously, art is something more people needs to be exposed, especially at high school level.

If it helps, I had a blast with that class. One of the high points in my senior year. :)

[The Divine Comedy]

*sigh* I'm taking the highest level of art at my school, and I wish there WAS an AP Art I could take. I think a lot of it is that my art teacher is a scarily cheerful ditz... really sweet, but a ditz. And I completely agree that there should be more art in schools. It's such a wonderful thing. :)

[Soli]

*sigh* I'm taking the highest level of art at my school, and I wish there WAS an AP Art I could take. I think a lot of it is that my art teacher is a scarily cheerful ditz... really sweet, but a ditz. And I completely agree that there should be more art in schools. It's such a wonderful thing. :)

Pfft, art. Music class at the way! :P

j/k I wish I could take art class, but have no room for it. >.<

[jihei18]

I never actually took any AP classes (I could rant for hours about the hell that was high school), but I've been through my share of chemistry hell! In secondary school I pulled lots of all nighters to do homework/study/get my lab book in order. Some of my classmates would drink tea to stay up all night, then placed the teabags on their eyes to get rid of dark circles (looking good is always important) We had lots of pratical exams, and someone would always screw up royally, like accidently useing the wrong reagent, breaking expensive glassware, or the memorable time one of my friends got NaOH in her mouth while mouth-pipetting. (She also got burnt during a demonstration; she was a bit accident-prone).
I hope that puts some perspective on your class. If not, I could tell the story about the ghost!

[Apotheosis]

If not, I could tell the story about the ghost!
I wanna hear the story about the ghost. :innocent:

[jihei18]

Well, my secondary school is said to be inhabited by numerous ghosts. The chemistry ghost is the soul of a girl who died while in the chem lab, sorta. First it must be noted that my school has a uniform, and was not exactly pioneers when it comes to lab safety. I didn't realize that bulbs were used to draw up liquids in pipettes until college.(That's another story though).
It was an ordinary day, when said girl went to her usual chemistry lab. The class happened to be using bunsen burners that day, and girlfriend leaned over the open flame, catching her tie on fire. The fire spread quickly, forming a human torch of sorts. The girl obviously freaks out. The teacher and lab assistant also freaks out (after all, how often do you see one of your students aflame?). It could have ended with some burns, if not for one fact: The chem lab is on the top floor of the building. And one of the exits leads to the balcony.
In a panic, the girl jumps over the railing. Four floor plus gravity is never a good combination.
The poor girl is now said to reside in the silk cotton tree in the school yard, another lost soul.
AP chem homework dosen't seem so bad now, does it?

[c-rex]

I just spent about four hours finishing up the homework for my AP Chem class. My hand hurts. :( And I'm sure it's only going to get harder from here.

Ah well. Share some stories to make me feel better. What's been your experience with/in an AP class? Funny stories? Strange stories? Stories of AP testing rituals involving hair of goat and pencils made of a special wood only grown in Outer Mongolia and the President's backyard? Do tell. :)
My teacher who taught us AP Physics and AP C++ turned down a job offer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab because he wanted to teach. Those courses were hell. You had say the 12 smartest kids in the school in both classes and the highest grade was a 66% before the curve. I remember turning in tests where I had no right answers, just partial credit for work. On the plus side I can now land a lunar modular using only a pair of pencils, a few tables and some blank paper and I slept through my first year of college physics and got an A+. My brain still hurts from those classes though!

[The Divine Comedy]

My teacher who taught us AP Physics and AP C++ turned down a job offer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab because he wanted to teach. Those courses were hell. You had say the 12 smartest kids in the school in both classes and the highest grade was a 66% before the curve. I remember turning in tests where I had no right answers, just partial credit for work. On the plus side I can now land a lunar modular using only a pair of pencils, a few tables and some blank paper and I slept through my first year of college physics and got an A+. My brain still hurts from those classes though!

Well... That class sounds fascinating... hellish, but fascinating. Should you ever need to land a lunar module, I'm sure you'll be thanking the Science Gods for your teacher. :yes:

[Kuroshi]

AP Latin was fun, because we got to read the poetry of Catullus, so we got to learn how to finally say obscene things in Latin. That man had some amusingly foul stuff for the time. (Go read Catullus poems 6 and 16 for examples)

[Jetsetlemming]

I'm in honors english, so I think that is an AP class. I don't know. :P

An AP class counts as College credit. An Honors class is weighted high school credit (high grades worth more GPA). You probably aren't going to run into AP classes until you're a junior or senior.
I took AP English and AP Physics. Did wonderfully in Physics, horribly in english. :meh: I screwed up bad on a project worth 70% of a marking period, and never recovered (not to self: do not put off 12 page writing projects on Ayn Rand novels to the last couple days before it's due!)

[ZaichikArky]

I went to kind of a bad school... not a lot of AP classes there. I did only one AP class- English, and I really hated it. The class was filled with the cockiest assholes and I really didn't fit in at all. It stressed me out too much and I hated most of the readings, all except for Hamlet.Portrait of the Artist was awful, as was heart of Darkness. I kind of did like Kafka though... Anyway, I ended up being probably the only one in the class to get a 1 on the AP test :|. Yeah, I'm stuuuupid.

[Psychochink]

My stepdad's in the process of gearing down for retirement and moved from being a senior university lecturer to teaching high school Physics/Chemistry, including AP classes (although he's currently complaining that he thought that moving down to a 0.6 FTE would mean less work, not more).

When he first started feeling his way, I suggested that given the small AP class size he might want to try running it in more of a tutorial style (i.e. more interactive and requiring critical thought, as opposed to the usual high school 'stand at the front of the room and impart knowledge' thing). He thought it was a good idea and put it to his class.

They didn't like the idea - too used to being spoon fed. I am chuckling at the rude shock they're going to get when they start university and have to realise that they're only going to get out what they put in.

[Fizban]

I'm taking AP lit and AP calc. That's half my day, for the whole year. I've managed to at least triple my workload from last year, and I have reached the point where I can't sleep in class because we actually learn things. My senior year is gonna blow.
Oh, and that's not counting youth symphony monday nights, viola lessons wednesday afternoons, pretty much every other weekend full up on community service for the next two months (curse you honors diploma requirements), possible driver's ed on teusday and thursday nights (why in the name of all that is holy did I not get my permit last year?), and the fact that I have to this day never started a project or paper with more than a week left to do it, and I suck at math.
Yea, I'm fucked.

[Nebosuke]

I only got to take AP US History[1], AP English lit, and AP Calculus AB, as those were the only AP courses offered at my HS while I was there. We actually had to take AP calc over the TV, as there were no teachers qualified to teach that course at our school, and we had to fax our homework in.

I didn't study at all for the entire year of the history class. The day before the test I stayed home and literally crammed for 24 hours nonstop and took the test a few hours and a giant mug of straight black coffee later. I got a 4 on that. I was actually expecting a 2 or so because my handwriting is barely legible (even to me), so I didn't expect the judges to be able to read my DBQ responses and essay, etc.

For AP calc I didn't manage my time well (forgot to bring a watch) and did only about half the calculator questions when time ran out for that section. I ended up blazing through the non-calculator section in a panic, then going back and doing the calculator section by hand. I managed a 5 on that one. Since I couldn't actually solve for a numerical answer by hand, some of my answers in the calculator section were ridiculously long expressions in terms of e or some other irrational number. I guess the judges decided to be merciful and let those pass.

An interesting thing about the AP calc class is that the students (who were spread around the state) had to take turns presenting solutions to particularly challenging problems on statewide public television. You had to fax in the paper outlining the solution in mathematical proof format, and they'd show it on the television while you had to explain the solution over the phone, which was patched into the television feed. I think that those were the only times in my entire HS career that I really, *really* cared about my math work actually being correct[2]. I even endeavored to write legibly.

As for English lit, I got through the first or second essay when I realized that since it was the end of the senior year, I had already been accepted to my university, and my university already said that it did not award any credits for AP English regardless of your test score (freshman expository writing is the only absolutely unavoidable requirement there). At that point I just put my pencil down and slept for the rest of the testing period. I think I remember accidentally drooling a bit on one of the answer sheets :P. Somehow I still got a 3 on that one.

One of my roommates had like 11 5s, and his friend, who was also going to the same school, had 15 5s. Until I met them while moving in, I didn't even know that there were that many AP tests :P.

[1] Advice re: AP history classes. Take the June SAT II subject test coinciding with the subject matter of the AP history class in the same year that you take the AP history class. If you do that, you will absolutely slaughter the SAT II. Scoring 750+ will be a piece of cake if you did alright on the AP test, since the SAT II is practically all multiple choice, and only a single short essay (if I remember correctly).

[2] On one test in 8th grade algebra, I was the only student who solved one of the bonus questions on a test, with the exception of one error. The last step (of around 30 in total, it filled up a page) ended up being x = 1 + 1, which I simplified to x = 1 :blank:. My writing is so bad that I think what happened is that I just mistook the 1 + 1 to be 1 x 1 or something. I never saw so much red ink on a single page, and my teacher actually whacked me across the head while returning the tests, lol.

[c-rex]

Well... That class sounds fascinating... hellish, but fascinating. Should you ever need to land a lunar module, I'm sure you'll be thanking the Science Gods for your teacher. :yes:
Let's just say we'll be using Michigan State students for test runs on the first few modules. Land is all relative, controlled crash might even be a better option.

[Angelyne]

One thing I really appreciated about AP classes were how much they prepared me for college. Not sure if it was because of the AP curriculum or just the teachers I had, but all of my AP classes were run like college courses. Years of doing massive amounts of homework and taking essay exams made some of my early college classes feel extremely easy. I even remember my high school AP Calculus class being a lot more difficult than Calc 2 at my college.

It was also nice being able to skip a lot of the annoying intro courses thanks to AP credit.

[UNREFINED SARCASM]

Why does everyone here seem like they take AP English with a high and mighty Professor

[japanat]

Why are there so many English mistakes from the AP English crowd? (ducking flames!!!!)

[c-rex]

I took Humanities to avoid AP English in highschool. It was awesome because the teacher who ran the class was having issues with the school admin. He had spent like five years creating a college level humanities class and designing it to be taught in an hour and twenty minute long block but the adminstration was trying to cut it down to forty minutes (in our highschool most class periods were 40 minutes, he had designed the class to run over two periods so it would run more like an hour long college course). He was ticked over the entire thing, plus the teacher's union was having a tiff with the school, so overall he was surly. Somedays he'd give us a study hall to goof off in for 80 minutes while he did other stuff (and we got 8 honors credits for doing our math homework). The class ran in the morning and one morning I decided to go out for breakfast with a friend. I figured I'd just tell him I was going to the bathroom and he wouldn't notice my bathroom break took me about an hour. All my friends though I was nuts, that the teacher would report me, school security would catch me driving off campus, etc but they were hungry, so a few of them asked me to bring stuff back for them (coffee, bagels, donuts, etc). So a little list went around the class and you stuck what you wanted on it and some money in a folder, in the end i got about twenty orders froma class of thirty people. I signed out and right as I'm walking out the door with teacher calls out my name, I turned around and he hands me two bucks and says "I'd like a coffee and a glazed donut."

[Roxie]

The most memorable thing that happend in my AP American History class was when it finally came to the subject of slavery, my teacher (who was also the soccer coach) started off by saying (and I quote verbatim)

"Slavery wasn't that bad."

He proceed to talk about how they all had housing and clothes and how all the major beatings and lashings happend in the caribbean and not the Americas..

You could just feel the entire class (all 10 of us) shutdown and not listen.

[tweek.3867]

The only memories of AP classes I have are writing 3 page papers during the 20 minute lunch break before class... and our very liberal class turning every socratic seminar into a political debate with our very conservative teacher... but I always enjoy that part, lol.

I'm taking AP lit and AP calc. That's half my day, for the whole year. I've managed to at least triple my workload from last year, and I have reached the point where I can't sleep in class because we actually learn things. My senior year is gonna blow.
If it's any consolation, I'm doing the same... and taking an actual college course at a nearby college that requires me to leave for the second half of the day two days a week. i.e. if either/both of my AP courses take place during my college course, I have to make them up entirely (joy).

[Roxie]

Here's a secret: My college classes where never as hard as my AP classes. We did alot of senseless work (instead of work that mattered) in my AP classes.

[Fizban]

If it's any consolation, I'm doing the same... and taking an actual college course at a nearby college that requires me to leave for the second half of the day two days a week. i.e. if either/both of my AP courses take place during my college course, I have to make them up entirely (joy).

Yeah, things can always be worse, you're gettin screwed right there.

On a side note, thanks for not belittling my issues even though yours are worse! :)

[bay]

what the heck is AP for anyway. waste of time. sure you get credit but you stilll have to take those classes over ;) none of the "good" colleges will let you slide. I had AP (BIO, ENG, US His, STAT) waste! oh in bio I sat and stared at teacher as she wrote endless words rehash of text why bother really? she was a quack serious mental case. any disease, you name it she got it or knows someone with it!


p.s. some troublemaker kid in class would play music and claim it was outside. she even got the guards to go check 1 time. sad case...

[Nebosuke]

sure you get credit but you stilll have to take those classes over none of the "good" colleges will let you slide.
True. My credits were worthless at my college.. the high AP calc score simply allowed me to qualify for a different freshman math class, but didn't actually count for any credits. On the other hand, the "good" college most likely won't even accept you if there were AP classes available at your school and you took easier non-AP classes on the same subjects instead.

[Scott]

My AP European History course was a fun one -- it was taught by an ex-Air Force intelligence officer that I'd had my regular CP History course with. He had a healthy sense of humor tempered with Saturday Night Live.

The AP English course I took was the opposite, unfortunately. The teacher was new, nobody -- neither students NOR faculty -- liked her at all, and she didn't know much at the AP level. We spent about two months, if not more, reading Lord of the Flies, and then spent another week doing a combined class project that consisted of drawing a map of the island.

Of course, she was very proud when we all scored well on the AP exam, as if she had had anything to do with it.

And yeah, AP credits themselves are pretty useless. There's a couple things that can happen:

1. College does not accept AP credits.
2. College accepts the credit as a generic "humanities" or "sciences" credit, but does not allow it to count as fulfilling a requirement other than credits needed for graduation.
3. College accepts credit as a generic credit and allows the student to skip the basic course and start at the second level (or higher).

In the end, all you've really gained is, uh, a useless credit. If you took ENOUGH AP courses in high school and your college is not on a credit-hour system, you might actually be able to graduate a semester early provided that you finish all of your actual requirements by that time.

Otherwise... most colleges/professors allow you to test out of basic courses with demonstrable knowledge. No point in blowing money on an AP exam for that.

[tweek.3867]

My logic behind taking mass AP courses is simply that it looks good when you apply to colleges... after that though, I don't really expect to get any bonus from it.

[Spaatz965]

If the only reason behind taking the AP classes is, it will look good to colleges, don't even bother.

With the bredth of higher education out there, getting into a good school pretty much takes passing grades, a descent SAT/ACT, and maybe reasonable performance on an entrance exam...and let's not forget the most important thing...money (Financial Aid, Student Loans, Educational Trust. As long as you're capable of paying tuition and are capable of passing 100 level classes (not acing, merely passing) you're likely in.

The exception, of course, are the cream schools...Harvard, MIT, Notre Dame. Unless you're shooting for a cream school, or for significant scholarships, all the above and beyond stuff is nice to have but non-essential.

I'm not saying these things aren't worth while...they are. Go above and beyond for yourself. Do it for the challenge. But don't do it just to punch a ticket or check a box. Do it because you have an innate desire to for one reason or another.

[Kwiz]

Thank you, Spaatz. That line of reasoning tends to get drowned out in the constant bloodcurdling cries of "overachieve or perish!"

[tweek.3867]

Neh. For me atleast, the schools I'm looking at are upper tier. My top choice is one of the seven sisters or whatever they're called, so I need to make myself look as good as possible... which translates into "How many AP courses can I fit into an 8 period schedule again? 10? Good answer."

[Scott]

Upper tier... you generally need to be in the top five of your class, in which case, you pretty much need to take AP courses to compete in terms of QPA, since GPAs at that level are generally close/tied, and ties are resolved through QPA. So the guy with a 3.9 and no AP courses gets beaten out by the guy with 3.9 and AP courses.

[Spaatz965]

I'll go with that. For the competitive/upper tier schools (or appointment to a military academy), getting the right punches on your ticket can be very important.

Thinking on it, the process re-inforces the idea that the appearance of quality is far more important than actual Quality. (sorry...reading Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance). Also, the process does weed out candidates who aren't willing or capable of doing whatever it takes to reach thier goals. Aren't those the very attitudes that have lead to short term, quarter by quarter, beat the numbers at all costs decisions? Examples include Enron and even the new HP scandle.

[harper]

We didn't have any AP classes at my high school back in the 1980s. My calculus class was taught at a fairly high level, though, so I took the AP Calc exam and got a 4 with no preparation outside of class. My college gave me 4 credits for Calc. I and I was able to start with Calc. II. The college I went to isn't a name school, but I got a very good education there.

We tried having AP classes at the school I teach at, but we don't really have a large enough student body to support them, so it fizzled out after a couple of years. I've only had a few students over the years who would have done well in an AP Calc setting.

[Nebosuke]

Thinking on it, the process re-inforces the idea that the appearance of quality is far more important than actual Quality.
No. My proctor, who was also an admissions officer, for instance, told me that they had rejected 11 people with perfect 1600 SAT scores, and any number of people with truckloads of high AP scores. What the top schools look for is quantity, yes, but quantity of quality. It's all well and good that you took all the right classes and got all the right scores, but if the next guy did the same AND was an active community leader, active in sports, elected to student government positions, etc., you lose. Even if you did all the latter but failed to impress at the personal interview, your application is rejected faster than you can say 'hope you have a safety school'.

Aren't those the very attitudes that have lead to short term, quarter by quarter, beat the numbers at all costs decisions?
Not necessarily. To get into my school, for instance (which, incidentally, was one of the ones you mentioned :P), you had to have planned long-term. You had to have built your HS experience up from your freshman year in order to have an application that would stand out. A short-term strategy there would, in all probability, fail miserably.

[The Republic]

and what school was that?

For me, I'm going to have 9 ap classes taken and 10-11 ap tests taken by the end of my high school career (spring 2007). I'm really just doing it to expand my experience and portfolio for college. I dont really care if I get college credit, I'm just doing it to get a better education, and I dont think that's anything to criticize.

Sure, it would be nice to get credit in my case, because I want to study abroad for up to 3 semesters (year and a half) in college, and you dont take a very big course load when studying in a foreign language.

Me, i'm in my senior year and i dont even do homework anymore. I've gotten it down to being finished in class or in the last two periods of the day (debate) which I dont do any actual work in because I'm a club officer. I crammed the night before for my history and psych ap tests, which i scored 4s on, and got a 4 on my english lang test as well (all of which was junior year last year.)

[Scott]

Studying abroad does not necessarily mean you take courses in a foreign language. In addition to that, some colleges have limits on how long you can study abroad. Just something to consider.

[Spaatz965]

...Even if you did all the latter but failed to impress at the personal interview, your application is rejected faster than you can say 'hope you have a safety school'.
That may be. However, it doesn't relate to my comments. I posited the process encourages a punch ticket approach to activities. For example, taking courses not for the desire to take the course, but merely because it will look good or be needed to get into the interview. Another example would be participating (and vieing for a leadership position) in a sport or organization, not out of any true desire to participate or lead, but so it will show up on the transcript. Isn't this type of punch ticket/just get it done approach exactly what has gotten several major corporations in trouble in the past couple years? Isn't this attitude encouraged by the application process the competitive institutions use? ... this is before we even get to the interview process.


Not necessarily. ... A short-term strategy there would, in all probability, fail miserably.
Again, that may be, but I wasn't commenting on the strategy, I was commenting on the attitudes being encouraged, which did not involve planning abilities.

I don't have any better ideas either, and I'm mostly thinking out loud here. For quite some time I've pondered about what encourages individuals and institutions to do what ends up in an Enron or HP type scandal. A major part of it, I firmly believe, involves the quantitative short term approach that's become more and more prevalent on the stock market...meet quartly results at all costs. Longer term planning (3 and 5 year planning with annual budget processes) that does not generally take into account forced short term/ad hoc execution (quarter by quarter budget cuts). This line of discussion started me wondering, as a society, are we indoctrinating our nominally cream of the crop future leaders with the very attitudes that perpetuate these quantitative over qualitative/immediate results at all costs (even sacrificing a more significant future result) behaviors?

[Sock Full of Boiled Dimes]

Our school wasn't fortunate enough to give AP classes.

That's why I'm going to a community college.

[Nebosuke]

replied to Spaatz here (http://www.outpostnine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6452).

[Riinuka]

I've taken a few AP classes... I'll list my entire schedules, since it's easier.

Junior:
0 hour - JROTC II
1st - AP U.S. History
2nd - AP English III
3rd - AP Spanish III
4th - Varsity Orchestra
5th - Pre-AP PreCalculus
6th - Pre-AP Chemistry
7th - AP Art Portfolio

Senior:
O hour - JROTC III
1st - AP English IV
2nd - AP Biology II
3rd - AP Calculus
4th - Health/Speech
5th - Varsity Orchestra
6th - Business Computer Information Systems
7th - JROTC Aid
Activity Period - National Honors Society (wed), Math Club (mon and wed), JROTC (any time I'm available), and other random clubs.

For this year, I'm the Vice Corps Commander in JROTC (read: 2nd in command of 215 students), I'm the treasurer for National Honors Society, and I'm the President of the Math/Science UIL competetion club/team. I'm also a member of many other smaller organizations, am first chair for my instrument (viola) in orchestra, and am currently trying to get a job at Best Buy, Office Depot, or someplace similar. I'm kinda busy. ._.

Now for scores...

I took exams for all of my AP classes my junior year (4), and will take four more (maybe Music Theory if I'm feeling lucky)...

AP Spanish III - Score: 1.
It sucked. I have no verbal skills with that language, though I can read and write with about a 98% accuracy.

AP U.S. History - Score: 2.
I'm quite upset, but I think I know why I did this badly.. I think my essay was a tad illegible. ._.; It was a brilliant essay, but only I could read it..

AP English Lang/Comp. - Score: 5.
I aced it. x3 I was happy about this, but my know-nothing English teacher tried taking credit for it... (to be elaborated on)

To be taken this year:
Calculus AB
Biology
Government (maybe)
Economics (maybe)
English Literature

The reason I put (maybe) next to some of the tests is that, this past summer, I decided I didn't want to haev more than one class outside of normal school hours. So, I took a Government 2301 course and a Microeconomics 2301 course at the University here, in order to not have to take the course at my high school (and to get some college credit out of the way). So, since I took the class at a college already, I'm debating whether it's even worth it to take the AP exam, since the course might just transfer over.

Now, to elaborate on my English teacher.... She wanted nothing to do with AP classes, wanted nothing to do with teaching us, fed us worksheets, and catered to the class cheaters. I hated the class. So, it was quite unnerving when she claimed credit for -my- AP exam score... She mentioned that it must have been her hard work and dedication, and that I must have used her format for the essay. I cooly replied to the people she was conversing with that, "No, I used my own format. I did, however, use hers on the History exam..". The crowd consisted of my History teacher and my counselors, all of whom knew that I'd only scored a 2 on the History exam. We decided not to tell my English teacher this, as she might have been a bit ruffled at having been 'blamed' for that, as it was an obvious slam for those who knew the situation. She remained blissfully unaware, though, and is still teaching. *cough*Sadly.

Anyway, moving on... None of the AP classes I've been in are a challenge, because my peers are cheating idiots who are only concerned with being able to play on the sports teams. My school has this little policy of players being disqualified from games if they fall below a 70 in their classes... But, the policy doesn't apply for AP classes, so I end up being stuck with all of the jocks who don't know the difference between a noun and a predicate. *sigh*

I've done enough ranting, though. ._.