Neither of my kids took any AP English though they both took APUSH and younger son also took AP World and AP Euro. They didn’t like the teacher or the reading lists and signed up for senior English electives instead. Older son got into Harvard and Carnegie Mellon, younger son into U of Chicago, Vassar and Tufts. They took plenty of other APs, in line with what other kids aiming at those schools took, just not English. The AP Euro teacher had the reputation for being the best writing teacher in the school.