<p>hello! I want you guys to give me a quick opinion of what y'all think... Next year i am going to be a senior in high school, im picking some AP classes... this are the classes I want to take
AP English Language
AP Statistics</p>
<p>What others AP classes do you recommend me?? I don't want to take classes that are too hard because im going to be working and i dont really think im going to have a whole day to just do homework...( I know all AP classes are kind of hard but there should me some that are not that hard)</p>
<p>Personally I think this is the wrong approach to take when picking courses, especially AP. I wouldn’t choose courses simply based on what will give you a better GPA/look good for applying to college. Pick the courses that you will enjoy and care about. AP courses really aren’t horrible when you give adequate effort, and when you actually care about the course giving effort is much easier. </p>
<p>Pick courses that will help you learn more and gain an edge when you get to college, not those that will get you into college. When you apply colleges will note that you took a demanding schedule relevant to your interests and this will help you. Don’t hold yourself back from giving your all senior year, you will regret it! Speaking from experience, taking 4 or 5 challenging AP courses, playing sports, and working is doable and will make you prouder in the long run!</p>
<p>If your main concern is having a curriculum that’s not too hard, then do as you propose. But if you want to both present the strongest application and get the most out of your senior year, them you should be taking a more challenging curriculum. You had previously said that you would be taking AP Calc. That is much more impressive than AP Stats. Similarly, what about AP US or European History, or an AP foreign language/lit course? Those will be regarded much more favorably in the competitive applicant pool for Tufts and other similarly rated schools.</p>
<p>The difficulty of AP classes varies from school to school even though theoretically the curriculum is the same. For example my older son spent very little time on BC Calc, because the teacher told them they only needed to do as many homework problems as they felt they needed to. </p>
<p>Personally, my kids chose AP classes based on three factors - what interested them, the classes that had the best teachers, and finally but to a lessor extent what was expected of their cohort. My older son for example had no particular interest in APUSH, but all of the strong students took it. He ended up being glad he had, because he didn’t have to take it in college and he had to take some kind of US history course in high school to graduate.</p>
<p>Knowing nothing about you I’d say you should take the most challenging curriculum you can that you still think you’ll do well in and have a life outside school. That might be two APs, or it might mean five - everyone is different.</p>
<p>In addition to what the above posters have said, another thing the more competitive colleges tell prospective students - repeatedly - is that they give considerable attention to whether an applicant has taken full advantage of the academic resources his/her HS has to offer. By way of example, an applicant attending an elite private or top-notch public HS who takes 6 not horribly challenging AP courses out of the 18 his/her school offers will be judged more critically than an applicant attending a rural HS who takes all 4 AP courses his/her HS offers. So you should give serious consideration as to whether selecting “easier” AP courses in lieu of the more challenging ones that your HS offers will reflect poorly on you to an admissions officer reading your application.</p>