re: AP classes harder than college? (a conversation with two cousins)

Didn't have AP classes when I was in high school so I don't have any first hand knowledge. My son however is a senior and has taken 4 AP classes as a junior and a senior. He spends a frick ton of time in the books, way more than I did as a freshman in college. If it has done one thing it has given him study habits I never thought of having entering college.

Maybe if you go to a shitty school and have shitty professors where no one learns shite.

If you are at a good school and working towards a legitimate degree, your college courses are going to be more difficult.

My sons AP history classes are super in depth. It's probably because his teacher is a mega-history geek that does civil war reenactments. His AP Biology class is tough but he is the only kid in the class so he gets excellent instruction.

even if it is, thats probably not a bad thing

My Honors English class from 10th grade was more difficult than any of my college level English classes.

I had to write more in college English, though.

College classes are harder in some aspects. Your quality of teaching is really dependent on luck. My AP classes in HS had great teachers with harder material.

I guess it all depends on where you went to school for both. I went to Baton Rouge High, where the honors and AP courses are legit. Go from there to LSU and yeah, the couple of 1000 level course I still had to take were a breeze.

My sister on the other hand went to Woodlawn and had a great GPA, but struggled a lot more with her required math and sciences in college.

Calc 1 was about even and so was physics and chemistry freshman year. now calc2 we covered everything i learned in hs in 2 weeks and i was like wtf? same with chem2. Physics 2 was a whole different planet, i was lost Now english was way way easier than hs. Geography was honestly easier than my 8th grade geography class. Biology was about the same.

Now Engineering classes and everything after 1st semester besides english and prereqs was way way harder. well besides statistics, that shite was easy as hell and was basic understanding.

This applied to both LSU and McNeese for me. When i was at LSU and didn't work, I was amazed by how much free time I had and its what got me in trouble. After the first semester, I just started day drinking everyday pretty much, even between classes. As the classes got harder I started fricking up bad and its why I had to transfer, I had to start over or I was going to become a full blown alcoholic and fail out. When i was at McNeese working full time it helped with structure.

They weren't for me but I also went to a crappy public high school where the level of competition was not very high compared to intro hard sciences classes at USC.

Some were, some weren't. But the basic science courses were harder in college than they were at LSU Dental. But the again, I we t to UNo for undergrad, so I was taking essay tests in Biochemistry when my froends at LSU were taking multiple choice tests. I breezed through Biochem at LSUSD as a result and won the top student award.