<p>What are the alternatives?</p>
<p>And what kind of colleges is (s)he looking at? </p>
<p>My kid had a college interview in which one question was “Why are you taking a gut like AP psych?” None of the colleges my kid was interested in gave any credit for the course. Why? In college, it’s often taught as a lab science. In high school, it usually isn’t. So, if the OP’s kid does take it, don’t think anyone is going to treat it as if the kid had taken AP physics C. </p>
<p>None of the colleges of interest to my offspring gave credit for AP Econ either. Why? High school AP courses rarely involve as much math as college intro courses do. </p>
<p>Between the 2, from an educational point of view, I’d recommend econ…especially for the kid who isn’t good at math and therefore might not want to take it at a college where econ is mathcentric.</p>
<p>But if I were the OP, I’d check a few schools of interest to see their credit policies. It might be that one of these gets college credit and the other doesn’t.</p>
<p>It would be better to take “real” APs.</p>