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Both are very important classes. I don't know about the admissions stuff, but I can tell you why they are so important.

AP Art History is important as it exposes you to the vitality of the human being - the ability to create such majestic and beautiful paintings, design amazing cathedrals and temples, and make physical the sculpture envisioned in one's mind. Truly, it is an essential course if you are to understand the strength of the human spirit and the faith of the human soul.

AP US History is important because you obviously live (or maybe not) in the most powerful country in the modern era. US History is so haunting; the history of the US is basically the history of freedom. The US is one of the first modern nations to establish the concept of universal freedom. By understanding the chronology and the amount of human strength it took to accomplish such freedom, citizens learn how to better our own freedoms. When you study American history, you study essential supreme court cases, slavery, the beginnings of freedom, and the formation of modern western thought processes. This is the reason why it is evidently the most popular exam taken.

If you are looking at difficulty, art history is more straightforward and extensive, as it is more rote memorization, whereas us history is more intensive and has more open-ended analysis.