How many AP's did you take in high school? or how many are you taking now/next year?
603842
I took AP English, Spanish, Calculus, History and Physics. I never tested in any of them, I just took them because they looked good when I applied to college. I did however take a test called the CLEP test for Spanish and scored high enough to get out of all my foreign language requirements for college plus I earned 14 hours of college credit. So I guess taking AP Spanish (or the cumulation of knowledge from 4 years of Spanish) paid off. I took honors Calc and Honors English in college, so yeah..I guess the AP classes paid off a little in getting into the better classes.
334899
Not applied myself in High School
792890
That's excellent just as long as you get ALL A's next semester it will continue to rise. Try to aim for a 3.5. Most colleges like a 3.0 or better. Highly selective like a 3.5 close to a 4.0. The maximum is over a 4.0 because AP classes are weighed more. A friend of mine currently as a 4.5 w/ all A's and some AP classes.
754378
I'd continue the math & science but maybe try the regular class instead of the AP if it not a strong suit. Good luck
424188
In the district I work for, if you have taken Pre-AP classes you can take them.  If you did not take Pre-AP you should still be able to take them.  I think it varies per school district.
843016
Usually, we use numbers too. We say 15 of 20 or 17 of 20 and so on . This goes only until the end of the high school. \nAfter that, in college, or grades are "pass, good, very good, and excellent"\nPass is from 50% to 65%. Good is from 65% to 75% very good from 75% to 90% Excellent is from 90% all the rest of the way.
35554
The AP calc exam is an ok exam.  It was weird though to take a multiple choice math exam.  Best advice is just to do lots of different types of problems and in no particular order.  Make sure you're comfortable with word problems because that's all the non-multiple choice part of the test is.  Also, I know you can get past exams - my Calc teacher in HS got each of us the past like three tests.  We worked on them on our own and then got together for like a week or so and worked out the problems together if we were stumped.  My advice is to start early (as you seem to be doing) and just keep working through problems.  Make sure you review what you learned in the beginning so you won't forget what you now consider the "easy" stuff.  I took the exam and got a 3 on it.  That would have exempted me from Calc 1 at my college, but I took the class anyway, just to keep familiar and found it much more challenging than in HS becuase it is a college level class.  But I still got an A in it.  And like the answer above said, it was everything we covered in a year in HS calc.  I would only really use the exemption if: 1 - it totally gets you out of all the college math you would need for your major OR 2 - if you can get right into the next level first semester.  Otherwise, I would do the brush up like I did.  It helps the GPA and it does give you that brush up because in college, they expect you to hit the ground running in the higher level classes.  Good luck!
856594
4.9 because of AP classes.
268114
You have to be really smart, or you just take a lot of AP classes in high school and score well on the AP exams, but I guess you have to be really smart for that too!
715419
MY IB got me 24 college credits which took about half my general ed classes.  Because my IB program required AP classes to be taken before the second level, I guess I recieved more transfer credits.  You should have recieved some too.
354018
I am also preparing for the AP Calculus Exam in 2006 and I can tell you that the points that I saw emphasized most in taking practice former AP tests were solids of rotation (disc, washer, and shell), the fundamental thereom of Calculus (what integral means), U-substitution, derivative rules, Riemann sums, speed, linearization (finding the slope of the tangent line),  volume of known cross sections, concavity and inflection points, the area between two curves, differentiability and continuity, local and global extrema (critical points and end points), implicit differentiation equations, trignometric derivatives, the rule of exponential growth (like volume increasing at a rate proportional to the radius), average value of a function, optimization, and related rates.  I know that is a lot but I have taken 5 complete practice AP tests (former tests) in class since February and all of these concepts were reccuring.
1017915
The problem I have encountered in my kids high school is a lack of content in classes that are not Honors or AP level.  The coursework provides little homework and the projects are lame.  Nothing is learned.  Add content or drop the class from the school!   More kids need to be academically stretched and challenged!
936445
This is not a great high school record. But I think the thing that will really catch the eye of the admssions office is the fact that you got 4 on an AP test, but you got pretty mediocre grades. I think the question they will be asking is, is this a pretty smart kid who doesnt want to work? \n\nThe one thing I've been told by college recruiters over and over is, we don't want any smart, lazy kids. We want kids who are hardworking and dedicated. I think that if you apply at a competitive school, that AP grade might count against you more than it will count for you.
654438
I found several sites that seem to indicate you can re-take AP exams the following year (if you are still in high school). You might want to check with your school or A.P. teachers to make sure. There may be a higher charge on a retake. I knew a few people in high school who only got a 2 or 3 and retook them to get a high score the next year.
1042828
Depending on how many other classes u will be taking, and how challenging they are, I would try to take them together.  If you have other challenging classes I would hold off to take the other later.  I took 18 credits at a time in order to graduate and took 2 math classes at one time and it worked out great, but planned it so I took my easier classes that semester too.\nGOODLUCK!
444229
The number 4 has always been my lucky number. I don't know why but here are somethings that kinda are coincidence < sorry don't know how to spell that =) I have 4 letters in my first name, 4 letters in my middle name, 4 people in my family, 4 best friends, 4 times i've been to one country. I mean the list goes on so far the number 4 has severed up to anything else! Sadly enough my 4th grade was the only grade I actually liked the teacher!
865404
I feel u. I took 3 yrs in high school and thought it was over, but I had to take more in college. I suggest you make sure you don't need anymore span. classes. I had to take at least 3 in college. But of course it is very valuable