<p>I've heard from a friend who heard from his counselor that you need to have taken AP US Gov and/or AP Macro/Micro before you graduate high school to be competitive in the same way you need to have taken physics in some sort before you graduate to be attractive to adcoms. </p>
<p>This strikes me as odd because a Google search with this question yielded no results, but I always hear about people taking the aforementioned classes even though they may or may not have a particular interest in the subject.</p>
<p>What have you guys heard about this? Is he right?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Personally, I am going to take AP Econ for the fact that we learn about the economy. In a democracy like this, we need to be aware of the government and the economy. You should not be taking classes to get into college. You should be taking classes that you can use to benefit society. We can’t have ignorant citizens vote for certain bills or candidates because of their appeal, or the media. People have to be educated on the subject; their vote not only affects them, but eventually the whole world.</p>
<p>^ I agree. Either of these classes are classes that will be useful for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>I do debate, so I know what you guys are talking about. I’m not arguing that the classes are not important.</p>
<p>It just seemed kind of weird how implicit the importance of those classes was. However, when you guys say it, its implicity makes sense as obviousness.</p>
<p>In some states US government and Economics are high school graduation requirements. Most AP kids just take the combo course gov/econ to just use one class period and take “harder” AP’s. I am seeing a few starting to use two class periods to take the AP gov and AP econ to meet the state requirement. I still think Admissions are more impressed by AP Physics, AP English, AP Chemistry and AP Calculus BC.</p>
<p>Government and a Consumer Education class are required in my school. I just choose to take AP Gov over regular, and AP Macro covers the Consumer Ed requirement</p>