<p>The course difficulty doesn’t make a big difference at all.</p>
<p>If you exceed the minimum entry requirements, you do receive bonus points, but there is no bonus for a challenging schedule (their logic for this is that not all high schools offer AP curricula).</p>
<p>Lower socioeconomic wise does help you if you are in that category. To have a big impact in your admission you would need to likely be under $40k a year family income, so if you fall in that category it will help you out quite a bit.</p>