Took a bunch of courses this year and an AP language is killing my GPA. Every French Honors I’ve had As, but AP is rough. I got an 89 first quarter, but I currently have a 71 for second quarter (about 2 more weeks left until midterms). It’s taking up a lot of time to study for this and I’m not seeing much improvement. If I withdraw and take it P/F, will that look worse than having a C on my transcript? I already submitted all my college apps a week ago.
My schools are all competitive (around 18-40% acceptance rate) and 3 have already accepted me. What should I do? I didn’t drop the course 1st quarter because I wasn’t doing that bad. Not sure why second quarter got much, much harder though. 
Are you asking about dropping the course for first semester/second quarter or dropping it starting second semester? (And what do you mean by “withdraw and take it P/F?”) If you mean dropping it second semester, read the following advice I provided to a similar question elsewhere on this forum:
I advise you not to drop the course if you believe you can at least pass it second semester and get A’s or B’s for the rest of your other courses. I say this because second semester grades do not generally factor into admissions; they only have to be sufficient to the extent that your offers of admission are not revoked.
If you drop it, you are required to inform each and every college you have applied to. Though this depends on other factors such as how the strength of the rest of your transcript stands, I would wager to say that the decrease in course rigor will not look good for admissions purposes.
Don’t drop it. At this point try not to get D’s or too many C’s and you will be fine.
Don’t get all lazy tho. Study for the AP exams and get that credit. It will come in handy.
I did not register that you have already submitted all of your college applications. Please refer only to the last two paragraphs of my previous post.
Thank you for the responses. @Episteme Withdraw means for the rest of the year each quarter will be pass/fail. I’ll continue with it even though I’ll have a C this quarter. It will definitely be odd to admissions because I’ve never had a C on my transcript. Hopefully they won’t look at it too hard.