<p>what AP’s would look the best for colleges?</p>
<p>Physics C.</p>
<p>Calc BC- taken freshman year, of course.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Kidding. (on the freshman thing)</p>
<p>AP English Literature & Composition is a staple AP for those wanting to attend the top colleges.</p>
<p>ahhh, we are offered AP English Lit. and comp. senior year, but I wanted to take film analysis 1-2, which fits in the A-G requirements.
will this hurt me a great deal?</p>
<p>The 2 bes are Physics C and Calculus BC aside from those who don’t want anything to do with math/engineering.</p>
<p>anorexic_abe, it won’t completely hurt you if you don’t take AP English Literature and Composition. Keep in mind that admission committees generally favor the most difficult courseloads. They also like students that can write, because a large number of college freshmen cannot write at a college-level. Take that into consideration when making your course selection.</p>
<p>I also don’t know what A-G requirements are, unless you are talking about UC admissions. In that case, it is still favored to take the most difficult classes + obtaining the best grades.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>US History is a pretty good AP.
As are:
Physics C
Calculus BC
Eng Lang & Comp
One language (of your choice; other than English)</p>
<p>Why does everyone like Calculus and Physics here? Maybe a disproportionate number of posters on this thread are math/science students.</p>
<p>They’re also pretty damn hard AP tests, which reflect well upon the student if s/he gets a high score on them. </p>
<p>Although, in truth, English Language and Comp was neither fine nor dandy.</p>
<p>of the aps i’ve taken (physics c, bio, calc bc, chem, stat, us gov & poli), physics c E&M was by far the hardest. …the bc part of calc bc comes close though (i took ab, and attempted to self-teach bc).</p>
<p>but yes. i am a math/science student. but at my school, physics c is known as THE hardest course.</p>
<p>imo, there are no such things such as the “best” APs. AP difficulty differs from school to school, and there is no feasible way to gauge them per school. At my school, Ap Enviro might be considered the most difficult, while AP Eng could be ajoke. True, some tests might be more difficult than others, but I don’t think tests are omniscient about what you learn in class.</p>
<p>^^exactly
at my school AP Lang and Comp is THE hardest class because it is taught by THE hardest, best, and most respected teacher in the school district. She’s, like, revered among the teachers, and feared/hated/beloved among the students (depending on how you know her).
Everyone who has had her has said that when they got to college they could write better than nearly all of their classmates. They also said that she made junior year hell. </p>
<p>so yeah. at your school maybe Lang and Comp is a complete joke.</p>
<p>At my school the hardest AP class is considered to be AP Lit Comp, thats why I chose against taking the course even though I consistantly get over 100% in honors english (was that a mistake?) idk, the thought of the class just scared me.</p>
<p>Lang and Comp is SO a complete joke at my school… Oh, my God. Nobody takes it seriously. The teacher is boring and doesn’t pay any attention to the work kids turn in, so almost everybody cheats and copies essays and homework and gets away scot free. It was supremely frustrating for me when I took it last year. :(</p>
<p>Foreign languages are good APs. “Good” in that they are difficult, relatively few people get high marks, and a high mark represents a high level of skill and is thus quite an accomplishment.</p>
<p>The most difficult ones would look better. It is subjective which ones are hard and which ones are easy. In my opinion, AP Human Geography and AP Calculus AB are very easy. Also, I think it would look good to take AP courses from a variety of fields to show that you are well-rounded.</p>