<p>What do you want to major in? (This goes for whatever college, btw.) I actually did think AP US and AP Euro were sort of useful in teaching me how to write exams, but not particularly so. But contra gibby, taking AP Lit saved my life with all the stupid teenage girly inflections those italics entail. Why? The teacher required us to write a 10-page paper in January. In the entire rest of my high school career, I don’t think I had to write anything that was more than 5 pages. Then I got to college and first semester was like “5 page midterm paper, 10 page final paper, 15 page final paper, 20 page final paper oh lol you know what an essay is, right?” (I did not maybe choose courses with avoiding too much writing in mind.) Anyway, that 10 page scaled pretty easily to a 20-page in my major area (not English). Those high school 3/4-pagers? There’s not even a chance I could have scaled them. (The teaching staff of each course were pretty helpful, lest I perpetuate the Harvard-won’t-help-you-if-you-ask thing, but I don’t think they could have given me enough help to magically ameliorated having no practice at writing 5+ page essays before that semester.) </p>
<p>@Penguinito You’ll take placement tests this spring which will tell you at what level course you should enroll. AP scores by themselves don’t do anything, but the knowledge to pass the AP will get you a high score on the placement tests. So yes, you can bypass them. (Also intro economics.)</p>