<p>My high school has majors - ie Chem major where you take AP Chem, Bio major where you take AP Bio, a law major where you take double period AP US & AP government, and more.
Basically, I can't pick my own separate classes - meaning if I went into law major, I would have to take BOTH AP US & AP gov, even if I personally didn't want to take AP US and wanted to just take AP gov. The same goes for the other majors.
(^I hope that didn't sound too confusing. I wished my school would just make a list of all APs and let me sign up for all the APs I wanted to take. -.-)
I ended up choosing Media major (double period of graphic design junior year, film senior year) because I wasn't interested in the science majors and I didn't want to take certain classes the other majors offered. Also because the media major is easy and I figured I'll have more time devoted towards other subjects.
Will colleges penalize me for choosing a major without APs versus choosing a major with APs? I know colleges look at the # of APs offered and the # of APs taken. Will the fact that I didn't choose a major with APs because I wasn't interested mean that I didn't take advantage of the APs offered?
Side note: I'm doing really well in Media (98) and my teacher loves me so hopefully I can get a really good rec letter from her. I'm also taking other APs.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the other/amount of APs you’re taking outside of the “major.” What other classes do you have?</p>
<p>Those aren’t really majors. They won’t care that much, but taking easy classes will affect your course rigor.</p>
<p>That’s cool that your high school has majors by the way 
But I think it shouldn’t really matter. What matters is the AP classes you take outside of your major.</p>
<p>@Robot: Yeah, who cares about college? This IS a college forum, anyway. No one gives a crap about where you go after high school here.</p>
<p>community college FTW</p>
<p>Take Physics. Nuff said.</p>
<p>come visit me at community college okkkk</p>
<p>see you</p>
<p>but how will colleges know if they’re easy classes or not?
im in AP us & AP eng, i would take AP physics but i wouldnt have lunch if i did. i wasnt in trig honors/didn’t get 95+ in reg trig so i couldn’t go to AP calc</p>
<p>Do you live in NY and go to the school I think you do, based on what you describe? If so, all the colleges know your school and will fairly evaluate the degree of difficulty.</p>