How hard is AP English 4 Literature and Composition? What do you do in that class? Should I take it?

I have a tremendous work ethic, and I’ve been called a very good writer and an extremely motivated kid. However, I will not lie. I am bad at analyzing texts, although I am eager to get better. I’m currently taking English 3 Honors. English classes are usually the classes that I’m strongest in. I never have a grade that’s lower than a B in English. The last time I had a B in English class was Freshman year in semester 1. I had an A in freshman year in semester 2. Usually though, I have 95-98%'s in English classes. Last year in sophomore year, I had a 100% in semester 1 in english and a 98% in semester 2 in english. The teacher was extremely easy though; her job was threatened because of how easy she is. I had a hard teacher for english in freshman year, and I still managed to get a B in semester 1 and an A in semester 2.

I have never taken an AP class. Next year, which will be my senior year, I will be taking AP Bio and AP Psych. I heard AP Bio is extremely hard, so I honestly have no idea if I can handle AP Bio, AP English 4 Lit/Comp, and AP Psych. I think I can handle it and receive an acceptable grade in each of the 3 classes, but I don’t know if I’d be setting up myself for success with B’s or A’s. I have no problems with sacrificing my social life, though.

I currently have a 3.1 GPA, but that’s because I messed up in my freshman year; popularity got to my head and screwed me up, distracting me from my academics. I’ve gradually improved though. I had a 3.6 GPA in Semester 1 and 2 for sophomore year, and I had a 3.8 GPA in semester 1 last year. All that totaled out to a 3.1 Unweighted cumulative GPA. I thought I’d include my GPA just in case it’s needed to judge me.

I really do need advice from people because I want to do well next year, my senior year. Also, if you’ve taken AP English 4 Lit/comp, let me know how it went and what’d you do in that class.

Thank you.

I took AP Lit last year and didn’t find it particularly hard. A major difficulty is that there are some very archaic texts and abstract poems. If you don’t like analysing texts the essays (and to a lesser extent the MC) will be extremely diffiult for you. I recommend you take it because it’s important to work on your deficiencies, and colleges will want to see that you challenged yourself but if your GPA is important you might want to think about it, AP Bio and Psych take a lot of memorization from what I’ve heard.