<p>I'm trying to figure out which one to take out of the two because of scheduling conflicts.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>What other courses would you be in?</p>
<p>The answer is obvious...... If you want to study humanities go for Gov, but if not go for Stats.</p>
<p>depends what you want to go into..i took ap stats and thought it was quite easy</p>
<p>I took both this year. Take Government.</p>
<p>I did okay on both of the govt. exams even though our first year AP teacher was a joke-- he sat around reading the newspaper most of the time. I ended up with a 4 in both....... I think if you just follow the news well enough, you'll at least have a fighting chance on your essays (it worked for me- my Russia essay was mostly from a PBS special I had seen the night before).</p>
<p>In contrast, my Statistics teacher actually tried to teach us and it was pretty much a disaster. I sweated blood to get a 3. That was her first, and last year, to teach AP Stat. Also, I've read that the Stat test has one of the lowest passing rates of any AP test- comparable to Calc BC, if not lower.</p>
<p>Bottom line-- take the Government test(s) unless you happen to be extraordinarily gifted in math and (like some people I knew) could sleep through AP Stat and still manage to get a 5.</p>
<p>Not that it really matters, but I took the Govt. tests in 2004 and the Stat test in 2005....</p>
<p>I thought that most top colleges don't really acknowledge AP Gov scores for credit.... does that mean anything?</p>
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<p>I thought with Calc BC 50% get 5's?</p>
<p>I don't remember the exact percentages, but the point is that it seems like people don't do as well on the Stat exam as on some of the other, "harder" tests. Perhaps that is because Calc and Physics are so intimidating that they only attract people with strong math backgrounds and who, as a result, do relatively well. I think that Stat is deceptive-- the subject itself doesn't sound difficult, but there is a lot more to it than one might realize.</p>
<p>Here is a small sampling of top colleges and their policies concerning Govt. AP credit.</p>
<p>The following colleges DO NOT accept ANY Govt. AP credit:</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Dartmouth
Brown
Penn
Stanford
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
Wesleyan
Amherst</p>
<p>The following colleges DO accept Govt. AP Govt. credit (for both tests unless otherwise noted). Minimum score for credit is shown to the side.</p>
<p>Columbia-- 5
Cornell-- 4
Yale-- 5 (I'm guessing-- website only said "excellent preparation")
Duke-- 4
Chicago-- 4
Rice-- 4
WashU-- 4
Notre Dame--4
Vanderbilt-- 4
Northwestern-- 5 (only American Govt. credit awarded)
Williams-- 4
Bowdoin-- 4
Swarthmore-- 5 (Credit for either American or Comp. but not both)</p>
<p>So as you can see, while some top colleges will not accept any Govt. AP credit, there are many other highly respected institutions-- even some Ivy League-- that will. So unless you are absolutely sold on going to one of the schools in the first group, you should have no trouble getting Govt. credit, assuming you get a 4 or a 5.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information!</p>