• English 1 Honors
  
• English 2 Honors
• AP English Language (juniors)
• AP English Literature (seniors), plus the Anthem assignment
  
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• AP Human Geography
• AP World History (no assignment)
  
• AP United Stated History
• AP Government (no assignment)
• AP Psychology
  
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• All Heritage Courses
  
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• Algebra 2 Honors (available in room 12 or room 44)
  
• Precalculus Honors and Calculus Courses
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• AP Spanish Language and Spanish 4
  
• AP Music Theory (contact Mr. Montoya)
• AP Physics (contact Mr. Imlay)
  
• Other AP courses (no assignment)
  

• Tues, March 10, 2010:  Turn in completed Fee Waiver form to Mrs. Eagleson, room 10
  
• Tues, March 16, 2010:  Pay for AP exams with Mrs. Simonian, room 120
• Arpil 21, 22, 23 at lunch: Pre-administration (bubbling of general information).  Listen for announcements for which students should report which days.
  

Benefits of Taking AP Exams

Your AP exam grades, if sufficiently high, could earn you credit, placement, or both at thousands of colleges and universities in the United States and around the world, enabling you to move into upper level courses in your field of interest, or pursue a double major, or gain time to study or travel abroad.

Taking an AP exam also lets you experience a college level exam.  Your work will be evaluated by college and university professors and AP teachers using college level standards.  If you’re worried about how well you’ll do, remember – you risk nothing by taking the exam.  You control which colleges (if any) receive your AP exam grade.

Finally, taking AP exams allows you to earn an AP Scholar Award.  Each September, the College Board recognizes with these awards high school students who demonstrated exemplary college-level achievement on the AP exams. These academic distinctions will strengthen your applications, resumes, etc.  You will not receive any monetary reward from the College Board.  For information about award criteria, go to www.collegeboard.com/apstudents

Earning College Credit or Placement

With qualifying AP exam grades, you can earn credit, placement, or both at more than 90% of 4 year colleges and universities in the United States, as well as colleges and universities in 40 other countries.  At many of these institutions, you can earn as much as a full year of college credit (sophomore standing) once you’ve attained a sufficient number of qualifying AP exam grades.  Recently, one of the nation’s top AP scholars so impressed her college admissions officers that they placed her in the junior class of her Ivy League school, fresh out of high school.

Individual colleges and universities, not the College Board or the AP program, grant course credit and placement.  You should obtain a college’s AP policy in writing; you can find this information in the institution’s catalogue or on its website, or by using the AP credit policy info search at www.collegeboard.com/ap/creditpolicy

If you are interested in applying to a college or university outside the U.S., you can find information about AP recognition policies at www.collegeboard.com/apintl

Colleges that receive your AP report will typically notify you during the summer of any placement, credit or exemption you have earned.  You can also contact the college’s admissions office to find out the status of your AP credits.

Exam fee 2011:  $87 per exam

If you paid for an AP exam but then decide not to take it, you may ask your coordinator for a refund in writing, but only if you did not begin the exam.  If you request a refund in writing prior to when the test is ordered, you can receive a full refund; if your request is made in writing after the exams have been ordered, you will be charged a $13 College Board restocking fee.  Once you begin the exam – that is, once you write on a booklet or answer sheet – you cannot receive a refund.