<p>Ok, so im in a bit of a dilema. I was gonna take Academc decathlon next year. I took 3 AP Tests this year, world history - 3, compsci A - 4, calc bc - 5. Im cancelling world history, and combined with next years exams, then I'll only have 6 AP exam scores (7 AP classes) when I apply to colleges in fall of 2007. </p>
<p>So, what looks better on college app? If I take AP comp sci AB or place well in Academic decathlon? I need to pick one or the other for my schedule. AP compsci will give me another AP class + exam (since ill only have 6 AP exam scores whihc is low), but AcDec also looks pretty good.</p>
<p>I havent cancelled yet. Im writing the letter to send to them right now.</p>
<p>A 3 looks bad...especially for the colleges I want to apply to (Harvard, Princeton, Brown, UT, Duke, Rice, Stanford, Austin College, Johns Hopkins)</p>
<p>it looks even worse to have taken an ap course and not the exam. colleges think there's no reason to not take the exam/cancel the score unless you really sucked.</p>
<p>And the APs you take in 2007 will be considered too...and you can challenge some this coming year. Maybe take world again, and actually uh...use your head on the exam? You seem smart enough, I have no idea how you managed a 3.</p>
<p>It wasn't grade inflation. THis year, my teacher had 200 students and it was way too much for him to handle. We learned DBQs like 2 weeks before the AP exam.</p>
<p>Also, the year and 2 years before my class, the teacher had about 50 5s out of a classs of about 110 students.</p>
<p>The second statement has nothing to do with what we're talking about, unless you want to provide a table of correlated exam scores and averages for the class.</p>
<p>The first...of course there was grade inflation. You had a 98 in class, and a 3 on the exam. Other kids got a grade higher than 3 on the exam, and unless they were all 99's/100's, and the yearly grade range for your class was 96 for the bottom to 100 for the top, there was grade inflation.</p>
<p>Wait, I'm confused a bit, does your school offer aca deca as a class, wow that's a bit strange [though 2 schools in NJ apparently have Aca Deca classes]. Well anyway, um can you still be on the team but not take the class. If so, then definitely do that, if not. I say you take the Aca Deca class and self-study Comp Sci. It sounds like you're a very hard worker and will definitely be up for doing both, plus it's possible, usually the kids in our school who do the best in Aca deca also take the most AP classes, like one friend of mine who was a B [what is that, scholastic] took four AP classes and was top overall in the region and 2nd in the state [taking seven medals], and another girl who takes three AP classes and medalled at the states in essay, speech, and interview. And I took five AP myself and medaled in math and speech so you can def be able to both succeed in aca deca and get that comp sci grade that you want [obviously you're going for the five]. So good luck your senior year, and good luck with those applications :)</p>
It wasn't grade inflation. THis year, my teacher had 200 students and it was way too much for him to handle. We learned DBQs like 2 weeks before the AP exam.</p>
<p>Also, the year and 2 years before my class, the teacher had about 50 5s out of a classs of about 110 students."
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<p>In my AP US History class we covered DBQs ONCE the entire year and that was it. Our class didn't even get through all the material we had to spend the last class before the exam speeding through the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s. </p>
<p>A lot of AP classes are the same way and went through the same thing as you. </p>
<p>Also what does having 200 students have to do with anything? were they all in one massive class or were they all in small groups of 20 like in a normal high school? i don't see having a few extra groups of kids would affect anything unless the test taking ability of the additional kids dropped...</p>
<p>He had 6 classes in a day each with 30-35 people. You really cant ****ing TEACH with THAT MANY kids in a class. Everything takes LONGER, its just a PAIN. This was just a bad year.</p>
<p>Your question about that has already been answered...one AP isn't going to make the difference between getting in Harvard and not, but going to a school that gives 98s to kids who can't manage higher than 3 for an exam they sat in a class a whole year for will screw you.</p>