Are AP classes being shoved down your throat?

hemingwayisdead
Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:33:06 +0000

Well…for what it’s worth, I’m not taking any of the exams for my AP courses. The universities I’m looking at have very broad, flexible curriculums, and I’m going to take courses my first year in college that I’d love to take – no “intro to intermidate physics” for me. College is not just about the major and minor…I do appreciate the somewhat few required courses I am going to have to take to broaden my education.

i take AP courses because I want to, its a natural continuum of my high school career–AP US History, AP Euro, AP English, and AP French are all classes that I want to take, regardless of the “AP” in front of it. I’d love to take Art History as well…although it’s partly because of junior year scheduling conflicts, I will have taken no AP maths, and only AP Chemistry for science (I liked the teacher alot anyway). However, if you take the “advanced placement” out of all the titles of my classes and I’d still take them. Although I know it was definitely the case at the end of last year with the top 10 in my graduating class competing with who could take the most APs, even signing up for AP Macro which has never been taught at my school…it’s so stupid and crazy sometimes.