Regarding taking AP classes,is a load of 5 too many for Senior year?

I just graduate with the class of 2007, so senior year is still fresh in my mind. DO NOT LOAD YOURSELF UP SENIOR YEAR. There are so many things going on that you are not going to be able to afford to be stretched thin. First semester is pretty relaxing and wouldn't be a problem, but as second semester [especially 4Th quarter] comes around, you are going to be pulled in several different directions. Everything becomes top priority, because everything is important.

If you have to ask if it's too much; it probably is. Good luck and have a FANTASTIC senior year!

It depends on what APs you are taking. Can you provide us with that information? If you are attempting to take AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC (without having any prior calculus experience), and AP English Lit together, 4 might even be to many. From others, I have heard that 6 is manageable if you take the right ones. Certianly 5 APs will look good for getting into college.

I did these 5 APs during my senior year and didn't have a problem with managing my time:

AP Calculus BC (I had taken AP Calculus AB the pervious year)

AP Statistics (this one is considered an "easy AP")

AP English Language and Comp

AP Latin Vergil (this class was rediculously easy because our teacher didn't make us do that much, and my AP Exam score showed it)

AP Chemistry

I only signed up for 2 APs that I knew would be difficult or have a lot of homework (AP Chemistry and AP English). In addition, I thought AP Calc BC would be a breeze since I had gotten an A in AP Calc AB and a 5 on the exam. In reality, I did have to do a ton of studying in the 2nd semester in AP Calc BC, since the material was kind of difficult. So I only had to deal with 3 hard AP classes, which is probably all I could have managed, in addtion to the two easy APs I was taking. So I would recommend doing 3 hard ones and 2 easy ones.

It is going to basically kill you to take that many AP classes, unless you are very exceptionally gifted. However, 5 APs in one year will look great to colleges (and they won't even know if you passed the test or not by the time they have to decide whether or not to accept you). If you are a very hard worker and have your heart set on an Ivy League, I would say go for it, but be prepared to give up most of your social life.

Like "Hufflepuff" above me said, it depends a lot on WHICH AP classes you take. The most I took at a time was 4, but only because I couldn't fit the fifth (I wanted to take AP Bio) into my schedule with the hours my other APs were offered and my other classes. I took AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, AP Government, and AP Literature senior year.

Depends on a lot of things, actually. AP Psych is considered easy (and it was in my experience), and so (I've heard) are the AP Economics. Other than those, different teachers make different classes either easy or hard… so if you’ve heard things about classes at your school being easy or hard, it probably has a lot to do with the teachers. And so your experience will likely be different than ours. :)

It also depends partially on what you're good at—I wouldn’t recommend taking Physics, Calculus, and Chemistry all at the same time, but then I’ve never been as good at math (I can do it, in fact I enjoy it, but I really wouldn’t want that much math at once). The history APs (U.S., World, Euro) require a LOT of reading, so you might not want one of those on TOP of a homework-intensive class like Chemistry or Calculus. AP Government (at my school) was mostly in-class work and listening to lectures—so not much extra homework or stress on top of the other APs. Calculus was okay for me, but a lot of my peers had difficulty with it and stressed a lot. AP Physics is a lot of book work, quite a bit of homework (busywork), and constant in-class work. Either English class is about like honors English through the rest of high school—if you’ve managed in the past you should be fine; you have to do essays, read books, and study vocab but (in my experience) no more than Honors/pre-AP English III – and not much homework on a regular basis, just the essays and reading occasionally. I’ve heard that the foreign language tests are usually hard for non-native speakers, but other than stressing for the occasional test in class, my friends in those classes—French or Spanish; we didn’t have AP Latin at my school or I’d’ve been in it. :( --never talked about having much homework regularly. So, again it depends on which tests.

If you think you can do it, go for it! If nothing else, you can try it for a few weeks then drop one of the APs if it seems like it’s going to be more work than you can handle! Lol, my Physics class dropped down to half the number of people we started with a few weeks into the semester.

Good luck!

not if you can handle it. I wouldn't be able to handle it lol (I'm only going to take 2 AP's)

Also remember you're going to be busy filling out college applications and stuff.

But in all those classes you'll have to make sure not to get senioritis-which will be my biggest challenge this year...

i wouldnt say so because by then, youi probably have a better work ethic than asyou did in like sophomore and junior year, where you probably took one class and then three classes (for AP).

i say, go for it.