Academics :: Advanced Placement Program
Archbishop Riordan offers up to fourteen
Advanced Placement courses to qualified students in the sophomore, junior
and senior years. These courses culminate in May of each year with the A.P.
exam, which if completed successfully, confer advanced standing and actual
credit toward the baccalaureate degrees at over 1,500 colleges and universities.
The courses which culminate in Advanced Placement exams are:
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Chemistry
- AP Economics
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP English Language
- AP Environmental Science
- AP European History
- AP Physics C
- AP Spanish Language
- AP Statistics
- AP U.S. Government & Politics
- AP U.S. History
- AP World History
Students wishing to take AP exams for courses not offered by Archbishop Riordan are accommodated.
AP exams previously take by a student and proctored at Archbishop Riordan include: AP Italian Language
and Culture, AP Japanese Language and Culture, AP Music Theory, AP Psychology.