Do College Admission Officers take into account how hard an AP is perceived to be?

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<p>For example, will they think I'm taking on an easier workload if I am taking AP Psych and AP Human Geo rather than AP Bio and AP Calc?</p>

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<p>bump 10char.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure they do because on a lot of college tours they brought up knows Calc was harder than Stat, Chem and Physics harder than Bio, etc. and wanting us to take the harder ones</p>

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<p>bumpp 10 char.</p>

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<p>Yes, of course they do. And yes, Human Geog and Psych are a whole lot lighter than Calc and Bio.</p>

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<p>what about art history
i know it’s percieved to be one of the easier aps, but it’s actually really hard</p>

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<p>I’ve heard some of the AP classes referred to as JV-AP. The same person said that often colleges are looking for a series of progressively harder classes that cap off with AP. The person who made the comment was a college counselor for what is considered the top boys’ prep school in Baltimore, so I am guessing that he had seen kids be accepted to the top schools.</p>

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<p>^ I’ve also heard of some AP classes called “AP-lite” such as AB instead of BC.</p>

<p>I think colleges do put the the difficulty of the AP in the “rigor of courseload” category.</p>

<p>If you are a sophomore, you could always take the more difficutl APs in your junior or senior years.</p>

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<p>many schools do not even look at ap geography. AT USC they do not even give you credit for a 3 on an ap exam and do not count geography</p>