If your daughter is a voracious speed reader, I’m guessing that she’ll be fine. I didn’t think my younger son was writing at a college level when he took AP World as a sophomore, but he got a 5 on the exam. The essays are pretty formulaic.
My kids took some AP classes not because they had a passion for the subject, but because the subject was required and it was more fun to take the class with teachers and students who were engaged. It sounds like the OP’s child will have to take a government class and the only question is at what level.
@mathmom completely agree. My kids also preferred classes where the teacher and student were engaged.
Just because a class is “AP” doesn’t mean that will happen…and that is why my kid hated AP Government. No real class engagement, and add to that the ton of reading and writing.
She would have learned as much, in a more engaging honors Government class.
And that’s where you have to check your school’s peculiarities. My younger son was trying to figure out which English course to take senior year. The honors senior English class actually had a longer reading list than the AP class. He ended up taking an elective in mysteries in said. It was not a very demanding class, but he loved it. He was so tired of the way English was taught in his school.