<p>Do you think that taking AP English classes will help in your college essays?</p>
<p>Is anyone who's a senior and writing essays here think that those classes helped? I'd appreciate answers!</p>
<p>I took AP Lang/Comp and am now taking AP Lit/Comp. Lang definitely helped me improve my writing; I can see a large difference between my writing before my junior year and now, during my senior year.</p>
<p>I would highly recommend it if you are interested in learning more about correct grammar, sentence structure, and formatting of formal and personal essays. </p>
<p>I’m actually using a revised version of an essay I wrote for my AP English class last year for my college essay!! :D</p>
<p>thanks cricket!</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t say that my AP English classes were directly helpful to writing my college essays (not done with college essays yet, but you know what I mean). Writing an academic paper or an AP essay is completely different from writing a personal, creative college essay.</p>
<p>@notanengineer, Im not sure how your class was structured but my AP Language and Cmposition teacher was very focused on writing personal essays. He assigned them to my class once or twice a month.</p>
<p>@GregariousGatsby, I suggest you speak to you peers who have taken the course and ask them about their experience as the curriculum may slightly vary from teacher to teacher…</p>
<p>Actually, in my AP English class we’re spending a bit of time working on college essays in particular. We haven’t gotten there yet, but hopefully it will be helpful.</p>
<p>We wrote tons of essays in AP Lang last year, but I bs’ed them to get a good score, never really cared about what I wrote and I got a 5</p>
<p>With college essays, it’s personal. The content has to matter, you’re not just answering a collegeboard prompt.</p>
<p>Two different skill sets entirely, imo…</p>
<p>@cricket: I think your AP English class is out of the norm. Personal writing is definitely valuable (and I wish my school did more of it–or some of it at all). But the essays on the AP test are purely academic (maybe in a loose sense, but they don’t require the same skills as college essays do).</p>
<p>Again, not that personal writing is bad, but there is nothing in an AP English course that necessitates it.</p>
<p>AP Language helped me improve my overall writing but I feel like Lit (at least at my school) is really helping me to develop my own voice.</p>