My 11th grade/junior year will be over in just over 6 weeks.
4 of my 6 subjects are Advanced Placement, meaning an A in said class is a 5 on the GPA rather than a regular class' 4. AP classes are generally college-level (some what college-style teaching, college material, etc). AP Calculus, ironically, is the easiest of these classes for me, whereas AP US History is the hardest (I don't really give a **** about it).
I'm looking at a GPA of 4.2 (a C and a B, the rest being A's) and likely admission into UCLA, or a possible admission into Cal Tech.
The problem with AP classes is that the school day is 7 hours (getting to and from included makes it 8.5+ hours away from home at the minimum, with sports included that number becomes 12 hours on average) yet the classes are university-level. Needless to say, there is a lot of work with a relatively small amount of time to do it. The AP Exams make matters worse considering I have to take FOUR of them (AP exams have an hour-long multiple choice section and a 2-3 hour free-response section, which is usually three essays or a series of math/science problems depending on the subject).
