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03-24-2008, 09:50 PM
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Just curious. If they do, when can you take them? We know somone whose school only allows them the senior year. Do you know how many AP classes are offered? My DD's high school offers APs and you can take them pretty much as soon as you are ready. She's in two now as a sophomore. The school offers 14 AP classes (I think, if I'm translating the school website correctly).
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03-25-2008, 04:23 AM
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We have AP classes at our high school. They are offered junior and senior year, I believe. I know that my son took AP classes in Chemistry and Physics, and I can't remember if he took any others or not. Not sure how many the school offers right now.
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03-25-2008, 08:19 AM
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When I was in high school they offered "honors" classes which I believe they later renamed AP. I was able to take them as soon as I was a freshman.
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03-25-2008, 08:52 AM
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Here we have regular English (for example), Honors English, and AP English. AP=Advanced Placement. If you take AP classes, you can take the AP test at the end of the year and get college credits. It varies how many each school offers (if any) and how soon you can take them. A lot of ours are for juniors and seniors. Colleges like to see kids push themselves and take the harder classes. They say they'd rather see a B in an AP class than an A in a Honors class, etc. As far as grade point averages: an A in a regular class is 4 points, honors A is 5 points, and an AP A is worth 6 points. That's why you hear about kids now who have GPAs above 4.0. Hope that explains it!
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03-25-2008, 10:22 AM
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OK, AP = advanced placement. Gotcha. I have no idea what's offered at our high school, but my kids are only 9 & 11. Guess I'll be looking into this stuff before I know it. Do they have college prep tracks any longer? Back when I was in high school I took all college prep level classes, whatever that meant. I did take a few honors classes, but not many. | ||
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03-25-2008, 10:54 AM
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Maybe this is a Canada thing? We have two streams in high school: applied and academic in grades 9 and 10, and those become college and university in 11 and 12. Courses marked "academic" are preparatory for courses marked "university", and "applied" are prep for "college". You need six university level credits in order to apply to actual university. Some credits are marked both university and college, which basically just means that it's university level, but there aren't entry requirements. Or, in some cases, it's a mixed class and you sign up for either level and do the same work, you're just marked differently. Confused? You should see the schedules at this school. It took me two years to figure out how it worked, and then only because I had to pick my son up early on certain days of the week because of his spare. My son was in the university stream for everything except math. There aren't advanced placement classes or anything like that. | ||
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03-25-2008, 11:59 AM
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TammyZed, In the US "college" and "university" are essentially the same thing. I remember having this discussion with a cousin from Canada. The only difference here being that a "college" usually only offers BS/BA and MA degrees, while a "university" offers all of the above and doctorate degrees. If you have a BS, it's a BS, no matter whether you attended a "college" or a "university". Sorry, I just remember my cousin acting uppity because she attended a "university", as if my "college" BS degree was inferior. Argh... LOL! | ||
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03-25-2008, 12:30 PM
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They offered Advanced Placement classes when I attended high school. I took the AP English and AP American History and Government. I was not about to attempt the AP Mathematics, though.
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03-25-2008, 12:37 PM
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College here tends to be more technical or hands-on, but I don't know anybody that considers it inferior! | |||
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