<p>I saw some other threads that focus on the number of AP classes in college admissions. Don’t colleges look at the difficulty? There were a lot of people at my school last year who took AP Lang, AP US Hist, and AP Psych to get 3 AP credits. I took Chem instead of Psych, which is just about the biggest AP difficulty difference at our school. Next year, I have a friend who is going to take 6 aps, but the easiest ones he can think of. I’m going to take 5, but I’ll take things that I’m interested in like Comp Sci. I’ll have less aps than him, but I’ll be taking the hardest our school has to offer. Because of this, my weighted gpa is slightly lower, and it suffers from the harder classes. Doesn’t this mean anything to the admissions process? or did I just make stupid choices?</p>
<p>Well one AP difference is not going to make an impact on admissions decisions so I don’t know what you’re worrying about.</p>
<p>I think that the number of APs they were talking about really had to do with how many AP credits the colleges would accept. Just because you take 6 APs it doesn’t mean they will accept all 6, they might only accept three. Colleges DO look at the difficulty of the APs, Psych is quite a lot easier than Comp Sci and Chem etc. especially since Psych is graded on a slanted scale. Keep doing what you’re doing. Take the ones you’re interested in and do well on them, and don’t worry about what your friend is doing. In the end your friend might have to pick out which ones, and they will all be the same: easy and most likely not very needed for what your friend is going to do later on in life.</p>