How many AP classes should I take?

How many AP Classes should you take? How many is too many? Too few? How many should I take to get into my dream college? How can I balance AP classes and extracurriculars? What's the right amount of AP classes you should take to get into an ivy?

There's a short answer and long answer to these questions. And stay tuned for the number one thing you should consider when you are deciding on your AP courses for the future.

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[kayejacob]

Really helpful! Thanks! I am sharing this with my students

[markcruz]

This is a really tough issue, and it seems like a cruel system. My son is a high school sophomore in southern California, and by the end of the 2022-2023 school years he will have 2 AP and 1 Honors class completed. He has received all A's and through semester 1 of 10th grade he has a cumulative weighted GPA of 4.22 and is currently ranked #13 out of 604 students. The problem as I see it with him loading up on so many AP classes is that he is a 2 sport athlete. He runs cross country in the fall, and in the spring he is on the school baseball team. Baseball practice during the week his freshman years was nearly 3 hours every day, or they had a game. He didn't get home until around 7pm. By the time he finished dinner and decompressed it was nearly 8pm. And then all the homework. I want him to take more AP classes, as I am hoping he at least gets into a top ranked public school. But with his sports take up so much time! Anyone else deal with this issue?

[realkyraful]

My school only offers two ap classes, and I'm taking one right now, and I have 3 honor classes.

[foil_fencer]

Hey, so I am a Sophomore now, and I chose AP psychology as my first AP. I was later found out it was full since upperclsssmen had priority. I tried getting in AP human Geography, but that was also at the capacity. My school doesn’t really have a lot of staff for the abundant number of kids at the school. (680 to be exact) so I am stuck with no AP this sophomore year and I couldn’t freshman year, so I am trying to make up that one AP I can’t with all honors classes, and challenging myself he most I can do. I hope I can do two AP junior year next year and three senior year. Is it bad that I literally can’t do an AP this sophomore year because of the number of students enrolling in the same AP? Like I can’t obviously choose certain AP that I want to since they have a prerequisite for them. I hope I can get in UNC, Duke, or WashU. Last year freshman year I had a 4.3 weighted, and a 4.0 unweighted. I calculated that if this year I get all As which I will work for, I’ll get a 4.5 weighted and 4.0 unweighted or so. Any advice or thoughts to my bad situation?
Thanks.
PS my brother got in the AP classes that he chose, but not me. I am just unlucky… 😢

[fok]

Hi I need an advice from you between ib system and ap classes .

According to your video, it seems ap classes are good but what about the skills and knowledge that student has to acquire to preparing for collage?
Ap is good for shortcut of your major journey in some classes but there are skills as searching writing essays. In my opinion, ib is good 👍 in this side. What do you think ?

[philosomi]

Do I have to take AP classes as an international student who want to go to us university? Because my school doesn’t have ap classes

[bethheller]

Can a student choose to take a makeup exam on a different date so that they are not sitting back to back for exams? I see that my daughter will be in this predicament senior year.

[mangasan]

I like the video. Thanks for that. But I do have a question. What if the school chose the classes for you and mistakenly gave you six classes and you can't drop out of it? They did that to me and now I'm not getting enough sleep to study😅. And it's super hard to focus on my math when I can't even keep my eyes open. 😂 ❤️

[kyrminag]

I’m taking AP environmental science and AP music theory next year. Will I survive?

[Idontknowwwhyimhere]

Hey I’m doing AP classes for the first time next school year and I’m going to be a Junior. I decided to take 2 AP classes, AP Psychology and AP lang, will this be overwhelming and hard or will I be able to manage?