<p>I want to raise my GPA-and take honors/APs in order to do that.
Do universities commend that kind of rigor, or do they see it as a way to rampantly rack up GPA?</p>
<p>Oh, stanford. you so cray.</p>
<p>Dem Cowedges, dey def commend dat AP n stuff. Yo b, high gpa iz so gud.</p>
<p>haha-thank you. its just that some aps im planning on taking are so random (i.e. ap art or ap computer science) and so unrelated to my interests-i don’t want them thinking that i took it for the SOLE reason of trying to raise my gpa. sorry- i don’t quite know how to explain it. but thank you for your answer-it made me laugh</p>
<p>You are way overthinking and your chances will be the same either way. If you want to take a course, take it.</p>
<p>Yes and no. Originally students were supposed to take AP classes in subjects that they liked now students try to rack up as many as possible, which is ok, I guess. I did 3 AP and 5 dual enrollment and got into colleges.</p>
<p>You can rack up quite a few AP’s taking only things you are interested in, or would have to take the regular version for anyway. I’ve taken 13 (exams at least, something like 9 or 10 classes), and none were “just to take an AP.” </p>
<p>If you have a choice between regular and AP, choose AP, even if you don’t care about the subject, as it will most likely be more interesting/fun anyway. </p>
<p>If you have a choice between an AP in a subject you hate and an AP in a subject you find interesting, take the latter.</p>
<p>If you have a choice between an AP in a subject you don’t hugely care about and regular in a subject you love, go for regular in the subject you love.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! Lots of good opinions.</p>