Should I take all (or almost all) regular classes instead? Need at least a 3.5!

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AP Art is pretty time consuming. At our school the AP Stats teacher finishes the AP curriculum in November and then teaches the kids real stats after that. That’s always led me to think it must be easy, but he’s an unusually gifted math teacher. My non-math kid adored him. In our school AP English is hugely time consuming and not much fun. Both my kids opted to take regular English as seniors. It may have cost them some, but the oldest got into Harvard (but not MIT, Stanford, Caltech). Selective private colleges care about the rigor of your schedule, but it seems like BF only cares about the GPA. Your best bet IMO is to talk to seniors who are taking APs and find out what they are like at your school.

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<p>Interesting! I think AP Statistics might be better than AP Psychology as it’s much easier to grasp. I love certain kinds of math too. </p>

<p>Yeah, it’s like that in our school too. From what I’ve heard from people taking AP English, it seems like there’s a lot of busywork involved. Yeah, I’m not applying to colleges like HPYSM anyway so perhaps my GPA would matter much more than the rigor of my schedule. Apparently it’s hard to keep up with the work in AP classes at my school. A lot of people also end up getting 2s and 3s on the exams though so I don’t really know how well some of the teachers teach. </p>