D1 took all the APs offered in the humanities and social sciences and none of the STEM. She breezed through English lang and lit as well as psychology and APUSH. However, AP World was the hardest class she ever took, including every college history class she has had so far. Watching her study for it, I thought it was a nightmare of a class that was completely focused on rote memorization of uncontextualized arcane facts. It was punishing, but had absolutely no relationship to the kind of scholarship that is required in college.
My D2 who is much more of a STEM kid, skipped that class, but is taking all the other APs offered in both humanities and science.