<p>I’m currently taking French AP and I have a horrible teacher. In the history of my school, only one kid ever got a 4, the rest, 3s and under. I’m planning on dropping the class after the second marking period once the colleges have made their decision. I want to know if it still counts as me taking an ap class if I don’t pay for the AP exam.</p>
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What do you mean by this? You won’t receive AP credit to use in college if you don’t take the AP exam.
For your high school, it may mean that you lose any GPA weight associated with AP classes, but your school may have a different policy. Also, I don’t know about your school, but my school requires me to sign a contract, forcing me to take the AP exam and not letting me drop the class.
If you’re only taking the class to make your schedule look rigorous to colleges, and plan to drop after college acceptance letters come out, you should consider why you even signed up for the class, if you knew the teacher was horrible.</p>
<p>Well, I took french for 3 years with this teacher. He’s bad at teaching french, but its easy to get a high grade in his class because hes such a pushover. There is no French 5 in my school, only French 4 which I took last year and French AP. I didn’t want to discontinue french in my senior year because it would look bad. Now if colleges make their decision, then I can drop the class. So I really don’t want to shell out 87 dollars, but I still want the class to show up as AP on my transcript.</p>
<p>That was certainly doable in my old district; course credit and AP test scores are two separate beasts. Talk to your guidance counselor just to be sure, though.</p>