How important is AP, Junior Year?

salticonshoes
Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:05:28 +0000

I’m a rising junior that has already taken one AP course, US History. I haven’t gotten my score back yet, but I feel like I did a pretty good job in the course. For my junior year, I was planning on taking AP World History and either AP Microeconomics or Statistics. However, my guidance counselor recently informed me that I could only get into World History and not the other ones because of school policy on grade level and because I have to make up a gym requirement, of all things. She assured me that junior year is not actually as important to colleges as many make it out to be. Does anyone know if this is true? I was really planning on having taken three AP courses by the end of junior year so I would have the “AP Scholar” title by the time I apply to college, and because I think it looks better than taking a gym class. Should I take an AP class outside of school? It seems University of California has some good options.