<p>Well, to be honest, I don’t think you can really classify any single AP class as being “most important”. However, certain clusters are better for some fields than others. For example, if you are interested in pre-med or biological sciences, you should probably take AP Chemistry and AP Biology before anything else. If you are more of an engineering person, you should probably give priority to AP Physics, AP Chemistry, and most likely AP Calculus.</p>
<p>However, based on my personal opinion, AP Chemistry seems to be a course that never goes to waste.</p>
<p>At my school, there are at least certain expectations- as in, you should take these courses to get admitted to the top schools. It varies from school to school, but in terms of talking admission to top schools, here are the most important for me: </p>
<ol>
<li>English Lang/ Lit</li>
<li>Calculus (AB or BC) </li>
<li>Chemistry</li>
<li>US Govt or American History</li>
<li>Bio, Physics, or Environmental Science (though that class has problems. It’s a combined dual enrollment and AP class and only offered fall semester. Nobody has passed the exam at my school ever. Yes, ever.) </li>
<li>Spanish/French (AP French isn’t even offered at my school.) </li>
</ol>
<p>bottom of the list:
Stats (offered as an elective)
Music Theory
Studio Art (both for obvious reasons)</p>
<p>zenythz:
I completely agree with you. You may have noticed I put the artsy classes at the bottom of my list. But for an art student, these would be at the top. Anyways, this thread isn’t meant to formally recognize some classes as being more important than others. Instead, it’s for people to give personal thought and reflection to the topic based off their own opinions.</p>
<p>I think English Composition is pretty important because you really do learn a lot and your writing improves tons! Writing is big part of not only college admissions, but also college in general, so I think the tools you learn in the class are priceless! =)</p>
<p>I agree with the general consensus that Calc and Chem always seem to be good, though I suppose more so for a scientifically headed person, because yes it would vary. English is probably ‘more important’ too. The others I think don’t matter in order that much. Though personally I think Latin is the best of all.</p>
<p>i think that AP sciences, AP math, AP History(US and Euro) and AP English are all equally important. It all depends on what you enjoy and want to study. So in essence I just believe that all the more core classes are important then they are followed by more elective types of classes.</p>
<p>AP Euro and Chemistry are probably most important/useful. Euro has helped me so much in AP US History and AP Art History. AP Chem is useful for AP Bio and AP Env Science. Calculus isn’t as useful because none of the other AP’s, except for perhaps physics, actually use it.</p>
<p>Wait, are we talking about most important to look good on a transcript, or most important in terms of imparting useful skills and knowledge?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know anything about the former, but the latter (for me):</p>
<ol>
<li>English Language </li>
<li>Foreign Language (German, for me) </li>
<li>Statistics</li>
<li>US Government</li>
<li>World History</li>
<li>US History</li>
<li>Environmental Science</li>
<li>English Literature</li>
</ol>
<p>I can’t pass judgments on any I didn’t take, but I didn’t see much merit to taking a lab science or calculus course, but I would have loved to do economics, art history, psychology, and especially music theory if my schedule had permitted. I guess that’s what college is for, eh?</p>
<p>My most important AP in terms of my academic development and maturity was World History because I took it freshman year. Micro, Macro, Euro, GoPo, Lang, Lit, Calc, and Stats follow, in that order. I asked my AP Econ/Euro teacher this question and he thought AP Language was the most important. I want to major in Public Policy Analysis and Political Science so Calculus and Chemistry aren’t important (or enjoyable) to me.</p>
<p>The only important AP class to me is Calculus, and the rest really depend on the person or class. But Biology, Chemistry, Physics C, US History, European History, English Language, and English Literature all seem good in general too.</p>
<p>The most important AP class is the one you learn the most from, aka the one with the best teacher. It’s kind of futile to discuss this since that will obviously vary.</p>