<p>I mean, I guess they could help. But it looks bad on your behalf if you rejected taking a course just so you could take an AP to get into college. Colleges look at the APs you take and try to see the common thread between them. Now if you apply to a big state school, this may not affect you. But when applying to an Ivy League, they scrutinize every aspect of your application and if they catch that. It will hurt you. You sacrificed your passion just to “look good”. Your ECs may help, but if you are willing to pass up on a class tht informs you on knowledge that you need to know, that will hurt you. Imagine if you are doing an interview for a school. The alumni interviewer was a business major as well. How will it look if they ask you some basic things about Business, but you don’t know it because you missed Business Management 101? It’s your decision, but it may hurt you more than help you </p>