Will not taking APUSH in 11th grade hurt my chances at top colleges? I am taking AP Bio, APLAC, and AP Stats along with multivariable calculus at a local community college, but I’m not taking APUSH since I don’t love history much and feel like I would struggle or not enjoy the class.
I doubt that not taking APUSH will hurt you. I love history so I would have always taken the class, but many of my friends only took it because of the required US history class junior year, and they didn’t want to take the regular class.
If you choose to take it, I hope that I can ease your concerns. APUSH is not a relatively hard AP. I took it junior year along with AP Calc AB, AP Seminar, and AP Lit. It was by far the easiest, and I received a 5 on the exam so that was great too! lol The content is really interesting, and the study tools available are amazing to help prepare for the exam. The Crash Course is perfect, and there are tons of outlines and multiple choice questions online, as well as all of the College Board resources!
Jerreeee! You dont get to tell Brown or JHU that you dont like history. They want kids with curiosity, willingness, drive to learn in broad ways.
Your competition, the strongest contenders, will have 4 years, usually including USH, World, Euro. No replacement for that.