I am a high school student. I didn’t take AP Chem because it’s notoriously difficult at my school and I didn’t want to mess up my GPA. I took AP Physics One, however.
I would have taken Chem instead because I completely feel like I have 0 chemistry knowledge and am a bit worried about keeping up with the 200 or so students in my lecture room for Chem 101 as a freshman year. Most of the class would have pretty good chemistry exposure and taken AP chem, so I would need to adapt to a completely new way of thinking. Oh well, I’ll get it done but might have been better if I were prepared a bit earlier or as much as the 75 percent of the class who took AP chem is
I also heard physics is no more than ten questions on the MCAT whereas chemistry constitutes two sections (not too sure), but chemistry is definitely a more tested topic and important topic.
I would take chem over physics, but that’s just me. Try taking Chem 11th and Physics 12th