I Am Taking College Classes Instead of AP..... Wise Move?

@mmmkkk2: your GC made the right call by having you enroll in the local state college. Your high school is offering only 2 AP classes and is likely considered lower-performing. Course rigor there is not very good. Therefore, you showed that you loved learning and wanted to be challenged by taking these classes.
Colleges know that the best predictor of success in college is success in college classes (surprise, right?! :slight_smile: ) Therefore, your ability to get A’s and B’s in college classes will be essential, for college admission and, later on, for college success especially if you’re taking 4 or 5 college classes through Dual Enrollement (taking college classes through a HS is called Dual enrollement, Running Start, PSEO, or early college).
Many students don’t “claim” their credits, certainly not all of them. This way, they take classes similar in level to what they’ve already taken, and can ease into college. So, if you took Calc 1&2, you wouldn’t retake Calc1, but you could retake Calc2, taking into account a college like Stanford (or Pomona, or Harvey Mudd) will have more course rigor factored in. (Well, everyone’s taken Calc1 before HarveyMudd, it’s an application requirement, and everyone starts in Calc2, which is super accelerated). If you studied up to Level 4 or 5 of a college language, you would get credit for all previous classes if you enrolled in the upper-level class into which you placed (you’ll have foreign language, math, and English placement tests before you start college).
If you’re aiming for universities such as Stanford and Pomona, course rigor, love of learning, will to challenge yourself will all matter greatly. If you can take sophomore-level classes as a HS senior, after taking freshman-level classes as a HS junior, it’ll be even better. Try to see if a professor needs an assistant for research and get involved in that, too. Seek high and low because many may not be amenable to the idea of a HS student in their lab, but there may be one :).