I’m a junior right now, and I’m looking into just taking a few classes at my current school and a few either at the local community college or on a website that offers AP classes.
My main motivation is that I won’t have any social science classes left to take at my school, and I love history/government/etc., so I’d hate to go a year without them. The community college has a huge offering of courses, but it’s harder to find information about the quality of those classes than it is with popular online providers.
Any opinions, especially if you’ve done one of these yourself, would be much appreciated!
I am a homeschool student and intake all my classes online, including AP. Im currently taking AP Government amd Politics and AP Microeconomics, along with other AP classes. Amd I like it. Im taking it through the Florida Virtual School. I’d say take the online classes, bit only if you can learn by yourself and are self-disciplined. Taking an online class it is easy to cheat, but it will not benefit you because you’ll have to take the AP exam. Anyway if youdo decide to take it online, do the right thing.(take notes, study, ask for help). However, I will soon be taking my second semester classes at my local community college(SF)
If you can dual enroll, I’d advise that. It’ll give you a taste of college classes and it’ll show colleges that you can handle the autonomy and intense pace that comes with college.
Indeed, AP classes may be as rigorous as a college class, but they’re covered over 10 months, with 5 periods a week. In college, the same content is covered in 4 months, with 3 periods a week.
Colleges consider -surprise! 
- that the best indication of college success is success in a college class.
Since the CC has classes you’re interested in, I’d go with that, especially if you can take a freshman-level social science class first semester and a sophomore-level class in the same subject in the Spring - or, if what you mean is that you’ve already taken AP USH and AP Euro/World with A’s (and 5s), you may be able to enroll directly into 200-level history classes, which would look very impressive - as long as you can handle them.