I’m currently taking AP Macroeconomics, and I hate it. It’s not necessarily hard or anything…I just don’t find it interesting. The class is in no way related to what I plan to major in as well. So, I was wondering if it would be okay to drop this class after my second trimester (my school is on trimesters)? I had a B first trimester, and well, I’m not sure what my grade this trimester will be. I would also take up another course…probably a social studies trimester-long course.
Is it a bad/good idea? What would colleges think?
Also, would it be better if I dropped the class with at least an A- second trimester?
Bad idea. You would have to inform every college you applied to that you dropped they class (or risk having your acceptance rescinded when the final transcript arrives and schools see you dropped an AP class). If you drop the class, colleges might assume you could not handle the work which is not good. My strong advice is to suck it up and finish off the class.
I agree. Last year my D was admitted to her top LAC ED1. In January, she emailed her local rep and asked if it was a problem to drop one of her classes. I forget which one it was, either AP Psych or AP Bio. She thought it was boring and she didn’t need the credit (and already had more AP credits than the college would accept or that she needed to graduate HS.) The rep wrote back and said the college expected to finish all the classes she had in process when she applied. So she sucked it up and finished them.
This depends on the school. My D notified her highly selective early action school as well as a top 10 LAC and two other highly selective schools (HYPMS) that she was dropping an AP Music class after one semester due to a schedule conflict and none of the four had a problem with that. (Not the same as dropping it because she didn’t like it though - so you may want to think about how you present this). It may also have been relevant that she already had more than 8 APs so one more or less in a non-core subject may not have mattered. I suggest you contact the schools to which you applied and ask them.