• 2025-26 AP World History Application

    Advanced Placement World History is designed for the college-bound student, and is taught in an accelerated and enriched manner. This course, while covering the necessary topics to fulfill the student’s Global History graduation requirement, also provides more material, studied in greater depth, than the minimum State of Michigan content standards. Students will emerge from the class with a broad range of highly developed important academic skills as a result of their experience. In order for students to successfully develop their skills to the degree that will be expected of them in the course, it will be necessary for them to invest significant time toward their coursework outside of class time. This class is not simply for “good students,” it is intended for the self-motivated, self-directed student who has a love of world history. The AP World History course material is challenging and rigorous, therefore students taking the course will need to be responsible and organized and will likely need to study every day. Summer work is mandatory for the AP World History course

  • By selecting this class, the student is acknowledging and accepting increased responsibility for his or her learning and recognizing the fact that they must be able to effectively work independently with course content material that is more complex than they may be typically accustomed to.

    This application for AP World History must be completed by the student and signed by his or her parent. Application and essay must be submitted using this form no later than Friday, March 14th, 2025

  • AP World History Placement Considerations

    1. NWEA/MAP test scores in Reading and past academic performance

    2. 8th grade Social Studies and English grades

    3. Application Essay – The Ninth Grade Center requires a writing sample for all eighth graders applying for AP World History. Details about the essay will be provided below. 

  • Essay Directions and Prompt

    Directions for essay – Writing sample must be a minimum of 200 words, but not to exceed one page· You may type in the prompt space below, but it is recommended that you first type it in a word processor like Microsft Word, and then copy and paste it in the prompt space below.

  • The undersigned acknowledge their understanding of the expectations and level of commitment necessary for the student named below to experience success in AP World History. Furthermore, it is also acknowledged that that the student named below will take increased responsibility for his or her learning and be able to effectively work independently with course content material that is more complex than they may be typically accustomed to as a student in the AP World History course.

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