agreeing with @skieurope. if you search ‘2017 advanced placement score distribution’ you can see exactly how many people got what score for each AP. Chinese Language has the highest number of 5s- at 68%; the lowest is Physics 1, with just 5% of test takers getting a 5. FWIW, psych is about 19% and HG about 10%. Imo, the comment section is interesting.
and disagreeing with this:
“Combined with taking a few more APs over your next few years, you can probably demonstrate to colleges your capacity to learn and interest in following your passions in whatever profession you pursue–provided that the APs you take are related to it.”
@skieurope is a super mod for a reason, and is dead right that the “number of AP’s you self study will matter to nobody. For college admissions, they would rather you take the class if it is offered.” All of the selective colleges that I have heard address the topic of APs have said the same thing: 1) it is always in the context of what is typical at your school and 2) they are not interested in an AP arms race- more does not equal better.