<p>I’ve been getting the general feeling that nonAP/noncollege courses are considered fluff for your schedule but my school offers two really interesting, challenging courses that are considered at the college level but do not carry any special designation: Women and the Humanities and Human Origins and Archaeology. Women and the Humanities is this amazing cross-disciplinary course that is a combination of literature, visual art, and music where the only testing is a significant amount of writing that is considered quite difficult. An internship in the arts is required as for successful completion of the course and I really think that it sounds fascinating. But I have the choice between this course, AP Stat, AP Bio, and AP Psych. Colleges are certainly more familiar with the rigor of these cources and I’m worried they’ll shrug off WoHum as a filler class. Are my fears valid?</p>
<p>Yea… My school has loads of classes with similar names, but they are classes in which the only academic work is to watch videos. I still think that you should take the class if it really appeals to you, and I think that if you wrote about it in your college essay or discussed it somewhere on your application as passionately as you have here, colleges will view it much more positively than another AP class.</p>
<p>The class sounds interesting - take it! Just make sure some of your other courses are AP-level, and you’ll be fine. Out of curiosity, what other classes were you planning on taking?</p>
<p>The class would probably be seen as such unless, besides the title, these was some other kind of recognition like an increased GPA or something. However there’s an extent to which it really matters. If you’ve taken a lot of AP’s already there’s little point in taking another one just for the recognition (unless you really want to take that AP which is another story). So essentially it depends on your schedule to an extent but overall I’d recommend going for it if it interests you. That and if you can handle taking on the extra rigor of classes with little recognition of it.</p>
<p>Of course if the class (once you’ve taken it) was a breathtaking experience or something, you may be able to tie that into your essays or something, or even go as far as including an attachment to the application explaining it. Who knows.</p>
<p>We have a class similar to expectations but odd name. History of Ideas. Seriously, this class reads books I PRETENDED to read in college. :)</p>
<p>Well this year I’m a sophomore with 2 AP’s (max at school is 1 haha). Next year I’ll be taking 3 with a max of 3 but typically students take 2.</p>
<p>Honors Pre-calc
AP Bio
APUSH
AP English Language
Honors Latin IV/V
Christian Morality (Catholic school, required)
WoHum/AP Stats/H. Physics depending on what elective I decide on</p>
<p>There are lots of interesting, intellectually challenging classes out there that aren’t labeled AP. If you find one, take it. Good luck!</p>
<p>take what interests you, probably in your school profile there will be a section on the class that explain the difficulty of it.</p>