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Edit: P.G., when you say you were taking 4 AP classes per semester, are you saying that you were taking 8 AP classes per year? What year were you doing this in high school, and how big was your school?
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Most AP classes go a full year, so 4 AP classes per semester for the year with the exception of government in my junior year which was only for 1 semester. Each class is 2 semesters with most AP tests given in towards the end of the 2nd semester so it ends up a total of 4 a year. I did English, Bio, Spanish, Government and History. Spanish was senior year. All the rest of my classes were only honors classes. Sorry thought you were going into 11th since you were talking about saving classes for your senior year. But still if I could've started in 10th, would've been better and easier for later, both to lighten the load for my junior year because I was also working so many hours and in college. I had a friend who did AP calc his sophmore year and then did college math classes at the JC to get even more credits out of the way. He would just come to school late (after the first two periods or so) and he got almost a full year of credits out of the way in math (which was good b/c he became an engineer). He was still able to run track and do all the fun cheesy high school crap. It also makes you more desirable for colleges. Since your school doesn't have too many AP classes you should be taking all of them. Especially if you want to be an economist which requires pretty much a PhD these days to do. It's getting harder and harder to get into a good college and pay for it. C'mon economist you know the basic supply and demand right. Well, demand is up, way up and is continuing to rise while youa re puttering away in high school each year. Think about it. Those college credits really add up, save money and time for real partying during college. You will never have as much fun in high school as you can during college. With rising college costs and high school really not mattering at all do whatever you can to kick everyone down and get yourself up. it's really true work now pays off later and now is the easiest time to do it. You wanna work out and read books for fun..fine, do it along with this other crap, but the other crap is more important and practical.