<p>Would colleges care?
Especially when I'm applying towards engineering.. maybe business.
Applying to top schools, ivy leagues, mit, etc</p>
<p>I can't take it do to scheduling conflicts. And instead will be taking AP government. Does it matter?</p>
<p>No it really doesn’t if you’re filling it up with another AP(gov). Especially if you’re going into business. If you’re going into engineering though, it’s a little different.</p>
<p>Really, the top university admissions don’t even care… They don’t have the time to nitpick your APs, with APs, it really is the quantity you take, not which ones. There is no such thing as “this AP is better than that.” Remember, although an AP maybe harder than another in your school, it differs between schools. For example, in my school, AP Human Geography is one of the hardest classes, while AP Physics is one of the easiest.</p>
<p>If you really want to be an engineer, physics C would be ideal, but you should take advantage of whatever opportunity you have to study physics. Most of the people you will be competing against for admissions in science/engineering will have at least taken physics B.</p>
<p>But it has become impossible for me to take physics. It’s either AP Physics or AP Calc. and dropping calc is definitely a nono.
So then my only option is to take AP gov.
Will it hurt me?</p>
<p>Cheap public school funding … grrrr.</p>
<p>^ My bad, I missed that bit in the original post. I agree that you should definitely not drop calc.</p>
<p>If your application looks great otherwise, not taking physics is most likely not going to break you. I took neither physics nor calculus and still got into 12/15 schools I applied to, including an Ivy. Don’t worry about it too much, just do well in the classes you’re enrolled in.</p>
<p>Why is dropping calc a no-no? I imagine admission officers would look upon calc and AP physics as equally difficult subjects.</p>