<p>I took AP Chem, AP US Hist, and AP Lang junior year and I feel like my grade suffered for it a little bit. I was hoping for a gpa of about 3.75 but mine was slightly less than 3.7 by the end of the year. However, AP Chem and AP US Hist are considered the two hardest APs at my school and I don't know anyone else who took both. Will colleges notice?</p>
<p>Edit: What if I had really good AP scores for both of those tests?, like 4s or 5s? By the way, college board is really taking way too long to post them!</p>
<p>Have a counselor or teacher mention it in a recommendation. Ordinarily they may not know that fact, but you can find a way to inform them through ur file.</p>
<p>Yeah.... colleges know that AP Psychology and Enviromental Science aren't as demanding or rigorous as Chemistry or Calculus. I read that from an Ivy League Admission book.</p>
<p>I don't see why your grade would drop. I took AP Bio, eng. language, Euro, and US history and my grade improved because of all the extra points for AP classes.</p>
<p>Unless you are working your butt off and are much more committed to those AP classes than any other classes you've ever taken (and even then it can go down if it's just that hard), then your grade in an AP should definitely be lower. </p>
<p>If you work exactly the same in your APs as your other classes then they either aren't good APs or your other classes are extremely hard.</p>
<p>I had a research paper relating 20 classical american authors that came out to like 20 pages, not including the 100 reg. sized notecards I had to fill out, and another research paper that included like 12-13 pages, 80 notecards, and a ten minute slide show (with only one allowed cue card). If your regular classes are like that then you must go to a pretty hard school.</p>
<p>my AP US History class this year was composed almost entirely of lectures... and that was it. to determine our grade he would just give us one test, which anyone could do well on with memorization, and one project per quarter, which almost everyone got an A on. so basically almost all the kids in my AP US history class had an A... most of them don't feel like they did so hot on the AP exam though... </p>
<p>luckily i think i did pretty well, i got a 720 on the SAT II us history so i should be in the running for a 4 or 5 on the AP exam...</p>
<p>AP Chem is the hardest AP at my school. But I should also mention that the class itself is easy as hell to get As in. We just don't get prepared at all for the actual test, which is why it's so hard.</p>
<p>What kind of bonuses do you all get to your gpa for APs/hard classes?</p>
<p>Everyone here tends to have higher weighted gpas than anyone at my school. Our highest valedictorian last year had a 4.15. Our school gives .5 just to the grade in a AP class if you pass. All this does is raise a B to a B+, for example, and it really doesn't do much for our gpas.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't do crap for AP classes. So all the teachers curve their grades. My math grade was curved by like 7.5% points. And I ended up with like a 105%. >.<</p>
<p>"our school does the same thing we get a .5 bonus for honors and AP classes so if you get an A in an AP class it counts as a 4.5 instead of a 4"</p>
<p>You get bonus for honors? My gpa would be so much better if I had that.</p>
<p>At my school, there are levels. "Academic" A's are worth 4.0, "Honor" A's worth 4.5, "Seminar" A's worth 5.0, and AP A's worth 5.5. Oh, and then there's the added .2 if you get an A+ (97-100), so you can get a 5.7 with an AP class. Talk about inflated GPAs.</p>