AP Class Importance?

chinnychinchang
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:41:21 +0000

If your school offers like 20 AP courses, you aren’t expected to take all 20. I mean there are things like various languages, art, music, etc. that cannot fit into your schedule, or a lot of students may not take.

Also, there are conflicts in like every school and I’m sure colleges know that. You should follow your passions with your classes. So if you are really into english and you write but could not take AP English, you should probably explain (or just take the exam) :)

Adding to what pnthrs11 said, I know a Harvard student who said that APs like Psychology or Human Geography are considered “lesser APs” than courses like Calculus, Chemistry, or Lang/Lit. I don’t know how much truth there is to that though, I just heard it from one student who took the “more important” APs.