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<p>By “way too hard”, I meant that even with good work ethic and plenty of effort, the student is still unable to understand the material or get better than a D grade. If a school offers only a course of this type, or a less rigorous course that is an easy A for the student with no significant effort or learning, then the school really does not have an appropriate course for the student.</p>
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<p>Only a few AP courses are really fully college level; many of them cover just a semester’s worth of college level work over a year even if they are accepted (e.g. calculus AB, statistics, chemistry, psychology, human geography, etc.).</p>