| I think it might be dishonest not to take them, if you said, on your application, that you would. You aren't really completing the course if you don't take the exam (and do the studying, which means you learn the material well enough to do the exam).
Our daughter is really stressed, and would sure love to skip them too...but she won't.
The other thing to think about, at least in our school, is that your GPA may go way down. In our school, if you don't take the exam, you don't get the extra points or whatever you get with AP classes. I guess they say they are "weighted." This would go on your final report to Harvard.
I have no idea if that matters.
All in all, I guess, our daughter insists on taking them because it just doesn't feel right, after Harvard originally got a transcript w/AP's on them. And it would feel like being a slacker, esp. w/peers all taking them.
Back in 1969, I skipped my AP's. But that was the '60's, and I was not going to college at all, much to the chagrin of my parents. But it was perfectly ethical to skip them in that situation. |