Do you like saving money for college, and planning ahead? College is already expensive even with benefits, but with less classes and more credits you won’t have to pay for as much. How can you get those credits for a lower cost? AP classes and courses, they are like college-level classes you can take early. They’re harder than regular classes, but they help prepare you for the thinking and work you’ll have to do in college.
If you pass the AP exam at the end of the year, some colleges will give you credit, make sure the college you want will give credits based on the course you take. So if you get the credit, you might not have to take the class again in college. Even if you don’t get the credit, just taking the class shows colleges that you’re serious about learning and challenging yourself in high school.
And for us at Lodi High School to be even offered those classes is a huge deal. It helps us look like really strong academic students and more opportunities. Katie Frey who took AP Human Geography has her opinion on AP class as a sophomore, “I think its important to learn how to study and manage time early.” .
And why you should take one? You don’t have to take the exam, but you can still take the class, it can benefit you for even the knowledge of content and challenging course level. It will show you what kind of mindset you’ll need for college.
But what are the AP classes offered at Lodi? We have AP Psych, Environmental Science, Biology, Human Geography, U.S History, World History, English Literature and Composition, Language and Composition, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, and Computer Science. So, if you choose on that matches the course you want to take in College, then you’ll already understand what you’ll need to know when you take it. Not only that but you can try out new things that interest you at a high level and see if it’s for you!
