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Hey, guys, i heard there were some AP freaks who took 19 AP exams and scored all 5 except for two subjects which they got 4s. Well, I might take about 6-8 ap exams. I just wanna know what is the AP guinessbook so far, have you ever guys seen any other crzay kids who took more than 20 or 30 ap exams and passed? Thank you.

By Liz (Liz) on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 02:23 am: Edit

There's only like 24, I think. I'm sure there's someone who's taken all of them and/or made all 5's.

By sid mathur on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 03:06 am: Edit

there's 33

By Sanj20022001 (Sanj20022001) on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 10:52 am: Edit

in one year you mean?

By Sanj20022001 (Sanj20022001) on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 01:03 am: Edit

Liz, then to what colleges did those guys get accepted? By the way, how did they prepare for the exam, do you know?

By incognito on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 01:16 am: Edit

Sanj, my friend...dont beleive these ppl. A lot of people lie on this site. It is impossible to even take 25 AP exams for several reasons:

1st off, i dont know of ANY school that offers more than like 12 or 13 AP course...


...furthermore, if there are 9 periods in the school day, and one is lunch, and you have a total of EIGHT classes, and you take ALL AP classes (which is highly unlikely) for TWO years in high school, its not possible to take MORE than 16 AP exams.

Some people on this site are a little insecure (myself included, SOMETIMES), so they like to cover themselves w/diamonds and flaunt fictional success

By fyi on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 03:01 pm: Edit

incognito, you dont need to take an AP course to take an AP exam

By incognito on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 05:18 pm: Edit

Maybe so, but what how else can you do well in so many areas. You must be some kind of prodigy to do so well on like, 20 AP tests. I dont know about you, but i certainly dont see a prodigy everyday.

-Also, an overwhelming precentage of the ppl who take AP exams take AP classes

By nyguy on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 05:21 pm: Edit

yeah and my school doesnt mandate a lunch period. if you wanna work they will just advise you not to, but its your perogative to work harder. i didnt take a lunch period until senior year, id just eat a bagged lunch during another class. and theoretically it is possible to take every single ap test. you can start taking aps freshman year and if your really intelligent i guess you could ace em all. not many people have the resources or the time to do this. it will help them to get in, but their exuberence will not hurt you. most people who are accepted to harvard are people who never visited. small town guys who are normal people. dont make yourself nuts. the ivies accept a lot of insanely dedicated people and they accept a lot of normal people

By incogntio on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 05:23 pm: Edit

...actually, nyguy, my school doesnt even allow you to take an AP class until you are a junior. Other schools, apparently, are different...

By alejandro on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 05:28 pm: Edit

it's called independent study guys..

By 1 AP on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 06:04 pm: Edit

YES it is very possible, and probably not hard. Some private schools let kids take AP tests from freshman year. With block scheduling, a student can take up to 8 in one yr. 8*4= 32.

look on collegeboard.com...the National AP scholar usually has about 20 something..all 5s too.

By Dori on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 06:08 pm: Edit

incognito: my school offers 30 AP classes (not all every year, a couple rotate every 2 years). and it's a crappy public school.

one of my friends is taking 8 AP tests this year, and he's only in 4 AP classes. things like: he's in AP spanish lit. but he's gonna also take teh AP spanish lang test...as well as AP euro, AP us history, AP english lang. ap psysics, ap calc ab, i can't remember what the last one is.

By agentd on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 07:38 pm: Edit

"National AP Scholar
Granted to students in the United States who receive an average grade of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams on full-year courses (or the equivalent)."

I can't see why there are only 1500 of these kids a year. Seems like there'd be about 15000

By nyguy on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 10:59 pm: Edit

most kids dont load up on APs, i mean think about it, in my school i think one kid every other year would qualify. more than 6 APs requires significant dedication especially considering my school is an adjunct campus of syracuse university . we can earn syracuse credits in most subjects. and AP is harder than syracuse. I studied far more to mess up and get a 3 on ap us history than to get an a in psych 101. also my syr credits transfer to nearly any school, APs arent as highly regarded.

By matt on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:39 am: Edit

my school is the lamest yet...they only offer 9 ap classes and you can have a max of 6 periods due to budget constraints.

By Sanj20022001 (Sanj20022001) on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 08:50 pm: Edit

By the way, do you guys think that taking many AP courses(like 15 exams-30 exams) during senior (or soph and junior year) will help you to the Admission to the elite colleges like SAT score? ( i also mean if you get mostly 4s or 5s)

By incognito on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 10:49 pm: Edit

Of course. Taking AP courses makes you look like a very ambitious and hardworking person. Why not? Or am i wrong about that?....

By Sanj20022001 (Sanj20022001) on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 12:27 am: Edit

How about in senior year? If I do really well on numerous AP exams, will college look at me differently? (Last year when I took Caluculus AB exam, I remember that there were 3 blanks to send your scores. Then will the college app. readers recognize my scores and rethink about my admission?)

By incognito on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 12:30 am: Edit

well, if you are in your senior, yr, colleges dont see the AP exam grades, because you take the exam in May. You apply in the fall/winter. I dont really know how they can consider your AP grades if they already accepted or rejected you, so...

By Sanj20022001 (Sanj20022001) on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 12:01 pm: Edit

so you mean it is useless to send my AP scores to the college that I REALLY WANNA GO even though i would be rejected? Would not they reconsider my admission if I take lots of APs and got almost 5s.?

By ap freak on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 03:58 pm: Edit

AP classes are surely designed to be difficult, but at some schools, they aren't. My own personal experience with AP has been ridiculous; I took all AP classes last year with minimal effort (and it's not 'cause I'm that smart or that hard-working; most people in my class were very successful at their APs, and they worked as much or less than I did. However, the slackness of the classes definitely showed up on my exam scores, I only passed four out of the seven, and got two 1's. I'm certainly not complaining because I got a few hours of college credit for about a tenth of the work it would have been in college, and for free.

By Maryland Mom on Friday, February 14, 2003 - 10:53 am: Edit

(parent) Does anyone have experience with taking various AP exams without having taken the course? Example: A friend of mine said that she finished Latin 4, then took the two AP exams for Latin - she scored a 4 on one and a 5 on the other.

I'd be interested in hearing if any of you took AP exams sans course, and what you thought of the exams.

By Candad (Candad) on Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 10:16 am: Edit

Maryland Mom, my daughter had a similar concern as she schedued AP exams in her junior year (01-02). She registered AP Cal/Chem/US/(Macro & Micro)Econ, Honors Eng(III) and Physics, physical education (req. by state) as well as the lunch time. To earn the title of National AP Scholar in junior year, she had to take an extra AP exam without taking any courses. She picked AP Physics B from her limited alternatives (the other two were AP English and French Lit). Finally she got all 5 except a 4 from Physics B and won the title.

B.T.W. She got 5/5/4 in AP Computer/Euro/French in sophomore.

By ... on Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 12:33 pm: Edit

hmm correct me if i'm wrong, but don't you have to be enrolled in the ap class itself in order for that ap to count towards the national scholar thing?

By Texas137 on Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 09:10 pm: Edit

You only have to take the exam, not the course, to be considered for an AP scholar award. I am part of the homeschooling community. Many homeschooled students take AP exams after preparing on their own. My son has taken 4 so far, starting in 8th grade, with good scores on all of them. We got a bunch of review books to figure out what to cover. It wasn't a problem.

By Mmdd (Mmdd) on Monday, March 24, 2003 - 10:34 pm: Edit

My school offers at least 27 AP courses every year, and we keep getting more. We might have the most of any school in North America (or close to it).

My friend took about 25 AP exams, he only took about 12 courses, but ended up getting at least 10 fives, the rest fours, except for only one three. It's possible, but its crazy. He's at Yale now. He started frosh year with Soph status and senior year he will deccelerate (sp?), so he will have senior status twice.

I'm going to have had 9 AP courses by the time I graduate, I've gotten 4's on the 5 I've already taken. The number my school offers can hurt us because it puts so much pressure on us and they can't look at people with fewer opportunities and make it hurt them, so it hurts us. It also gets extremely competitive.

By Kalitiha (Kalitiha) on Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 02:00 am: Edit

My school offers about 22 AP courses and most people start them in 10th grade unless they're really smart in math and then they can take something like Calc AB freshman year. Also, we have a lot of people take the test even if they didn't take the class, take Microecon. when you took Macro. as a class etc. There are some people that have taken almost all of the AP exams available, but then again my school has produced 20 of the last 22 AP State Scholars.

By Useatoothbrush (Useatoothbrush) on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 01:06 am: Edit

My school offers AP phys B, calc AB, bio, chem, english lit and language (taught as a general AP english class), Euro, US gov, and US history for the maybe two kids who decided to independently study for it. If you want to take more tests, you have to find another school during AP week. We have funny 6 period scheduling and a mandatory lunch (I can't believe it'd be optional!) that you do have to take electives and academics to graduate, so it is impossible to take all the APs, especially if they are offered during the same block. I know of only one sophomore who was allowed to be in an AP class because he placed into AP calc, and I had to fight to get into AP physics as a junior. This is a pretty good public school, about 1300 kids. If you take two APs a year people think you are suicidal. We don't have any AP scholar recognition here, ever. I'll have gotten in 5 of those and that is virtually unheard of here. I can't imagine having a schedule chock full of APs, having no lunch, and learning college material out of a freaking prep book made from newsprint.