<p>I’m taking AP Chem, Language, and US this year. Next year, I’ll be taking AP Lit, French, Calc BC, and Physics.</p>
<p>My question is, is it worth tacking on a fifth AP? Or is that suicide? And if so, AP Studio Art or AP Euro?</p>
<p>Pros of AP Art: I’ve been taking art classes throughout high school, some continuity, maybe produce something worth sending as a supplement
Cons: A legendary workload.</p>
<p>Pros of Euro: A fourth year of history! A more manageable workload.
Cons: Um, will colleges even care?</p>
<p>And one more question: I’m taking fashion next year, simply because I love fashion. I know that skillz in art are looked kindly upon, but should I bother emphasizing anything about fashion? Or is it seen as far too superficial? (This seems rather unfair, if it is true, because visual arts and fashion are interconnected in so many ways)</p>
<p>If you are shooting to be an art major (or least an related field) then go for AP Art (i’m assuming studio art and not art history) otherwise, AP euro would be better. Most colleges do not want art supplement unless you are an art major (and its not the admission offices that want it, its the art colleges within the university) Otherwise, AP studio will eat up your spare time and be waste of your time, unless you genuinly love creating artworks. (<- which technically is something you can do by yourself at a spare time)</p>
<p>And if you love fashion (i’m assuming this is an elective… right?) I say take it. They won’t look down on you for taking fashion… its just an elective, not a core class… Especially if you want to work in a fashion related field, it would look good…</p>
<p>I’m told that AP Euro is more favorably looked upon than AP Art.</p>
<p>Ah ok, thanks.</p>
<p>For the record, I’m applying to extrreeeemmely selective schools - Harvard among them. And I’m not planning on majoring in art. </p>
<p>Hypothetically, say I make a cool dress or something. Should I treat this like a cool painting and send in a photograph of it?</p>
<p>^ once again, not unless they ask for supplementary things… And they probably wouldn’t ask for it unless you were a fashion major… THey have thousands of applications to go through, and things like that would actually possibly make them mad (things they didn’t ask for) because it would slow them down.</p>
<p>Gotcha. </p>
<p>Just one more question: will five AP courses senior year be necessarily a lot more impressive than four?</p>
<p>Depends on what AP you take… I took 6 (I could’ve taken 7, but i wanted the morning free) my senior year just to make my schedule all AP… I wouldn’t say go for it, unless you can handle it all (i couldn’t handle math. i don’t know why i took it)</p>
<p>I mean for example, if you took easier APs like AP enviro, it wouldn’t be exactly that impressive (i took it for my science credit though) Taking AP physics and getting good grades in there, on the other hand, would be VERY impressive…</p>
<p>Gotcha - no. 4 APs is in core courses is considered a challenging schedule. You should take some kind of history/government/economics, though, for your fifth subject. You need a fifth core course.</p>
<p>HYPSM and their ilk prefer 4 full years of each academic discipline…</p>
<p>even if you did want to be an art major, i would not adise AP Art. I take six and Art is the worst one because so much work is invovled and each one is expected to be fantastic. I spend upwards of ten to as much as 20 hours a week doing one piece and that does not include the artist research that my teacher requires every week. it is nightmare and my teacher says she thinks I will probably make a four. All this work and I will not even get a five! Take AP Euro. Schools look at it more fondly and it not as time consuming comparatively.</p>
<p>Yikes! Thanks so much for telling me that. I definitely won’t take it now.</p>
<p>I’m SO SO SO SO EXCITED to take fashion next year. I dunno, I just felt lame that I was taking a course that’s likely to house cheerleaders. not that there’s anything wrong with cheerleaders. I guess I’m going to go the AP Euro route, if that’s going to be frowned upon by HYPSM.</p>
<p>^ yeah probably should take AP Euro. I took both before but i guess AP euro would be the one would look more fondly upon. I’m art major, so i did enjoy my 2 years in AP studio. (it improved my art skills immensely) and it was the first time I was allowed to draw whatever I wanted for class…Area of concentration (you need 12 works that are linked by a theme for AP portfolio) is good for that reason, but you are seriously RUSHED through out the year.</p>
<p>Im taking 6 APs now and Im surviving…plus AP Euro is a great class.</p>