<p>I'm currently a junior in high school, and just started school. We have a 3 week drop out period that can allow us to drop/change a class without leaving it on our transcript.</p>
<p>However I wanted to ask for some opinions.</p>
<p>Our school provided AP Lang as one of the English classes for this year, but a lot of the students recommend us not to take the class because of its rigorous challenge. However, the only other English class is American Literature, but the teacher says she could help students (even in regular class) to take the AP Exam at the end of the year. </p>
<p>My ultimate dream school is UC Berkeley as a Med student, but I want to know if it's actually worth risking my GPA with this challenging subject. Even the smartest students passed the class with a B, and for the last 5 years, only one person has passed with an A.</p>
<p>I'm currently taking AP Lang, AP Physics, AP Psychology, AP US History, 1 honor class, and a foreign language class.</p>
<p>You have already alot of APs. Getting a C isn’t worth it. Take honors instead or even regular if there is no honors. If only one person has gotten an A that is very risky. </p>
<p>You’ll face this question in college, too. That you’re even asking this question suggests to me that you have some interest in the material taught in AP Lang. It could after all be one of the best courses you ever take and could be a life changer for you. It could even make an important improvement in your writing skills, and given the importance of writing to your college success the course could bring a huge benefit to almost every college course. What do you have to lose in comparison to those opportunities?</p>
<p>If you get a B in an AP course, it has little negative effect on your weighted GPA. How much of an effect could a B have on your unweighted GPA at this point? You probably have one or no Cs on your transcript. How much could one unlikely C [more?] hurt in comparison to the opportunity for taking the best high school course ever?</p>
<p>It’s not that you need another tough course but that you cannot be afraid of the road not traveled. I leave you then with the words of another fan of Robert Frost, President Kennedy: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”</p>
<p>btw, your weighted GPA is of little importance to your application because high schools have so many different ways at arriving at the weighted GPA.</p>
<p>I would take AP Lang. It skills that you will need in literally every college major and job field. You need to learn how to write. When you are writing your supplements next fall, you will be grateful.</p>