@blueeyeblue
If your school is very competitive and ranks, sometimes you don’t have a choice but to take AP or Honor classes to be at the top 5% or 10%. Even if you don’t really like the class.
My daughter’s school offers 22 but some are known to be much easier and many colleges will not award credit for them. APES, AP Human Geography, any AP Art with the exception of AP Art History, just to name a few. Kids who make 5’s on classes like Calc BC, Chem, Euro ,APUSH and Bio are showing they understand that material on a standardized test. I never understood why kids take the classes and then decide to not take the test.